bigalbooks | Black History Month Book Tag @bigalbooksforever | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
~~~Channels Mentioned~~~
@booksbyleynes (original tag creator)
youtube.com/watch?v=DuDYy5GJjk

The Artisan Geek
youtube.com/channel/UCamkpihJtPvMuH49D6FejEw



Tiana Tea
youtube.com/c/TianaTea/videos




~~~Books/Films Mentioned~~~

****Canadian Nonfiction/Fiction recommendations****
Black Writers Matter (Ed. Whitney French)
The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper
Policing Black Lives - Robin Maynard
Black Like Who - Rinaldo Walcott
The Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole
Fifteen Dogs - André Alexis
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
The Rage of Dragons - Evan Winter
Frying Plantain - Zalinka Reid-Benta
Brother - David Chariandy
Reproduction - Ian Williams
Bread Out of Stone - Dionne Brand
Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
Things Are Good Now - Djamila Ibrahim


***Other Books/Films Mentioned***
The Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi wa Thiong’o
House of Stone - Novuyo Rose Tshuma
Sunjata - Bamba Suso & Banna Kanute
I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin
The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
The Deep - Rivers Solomon
The African Trilogy - Chinua Achebe
Four Hundred Souls - ed. Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
One Hundred Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton


~~~Questions~~~

1. What is a book everyone should be reading during Black History Month? (give one fiction and one nonfiction title)

2. Which Black booktuber would you recommend watching and why?

3. What is your favorite book written by a Black author from an African country?

4. What is your favorite Black classic?

5. Which movie / book-to-movie-adaptation / documentary would you recommend watching during Black History Month?

6. What’s on your TBR for Black History Month?

7. Which new releases by Black writers are you looking forward to the most this year?