Recommended Reads for Black History Month

Turn your Black History Month into a yearlong celebration with these twelve incredible books about Black history and culture!

 
 
 

The Vice President's Black Wife by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

In this groundbreaking work of historical recovery, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers illuminates the complexities of race, gender and politics in American history and public memory. Focusing on Julia Ann Chinn—the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, the ninth vice president of the United States—the book interrogates the silences around this relationship.