Celebrating Juneteenth

By Coll Rowe | June 9 2026 | Black HistoryCreative WritingHistoryLiteratureSocial StudiesThe Arts

This month we celebrate Juneteenth—a time to amplify Black joy and community. As we commemorate and reflect on the achievements of Black Americans throughout history on Juneteenth, we encourage you to embrace Black joy year-round by infusing your classroom with great books.

 

Browse our Juneteenth collections:

HISTORY

FAMILY & CULTURE

FICTION

POETRY

SOCIAL JUSTICE

THE ARTS

FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION

PICTURE BOOKS

Juneteenth (Revised)
Juneteenth (Revised)
Ralph Ellison
9780593314616
Juneteenth is a brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise novel. This edition includes a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.
$19.00 US
May 18, 2021
Paperback
416 Pages
Vintage
Nonviolent
Nonviolent
A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
Emily Yellin, Reverend James Lawson Jr.
9780593596241
The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.
$36.00 US
Feb 17, 2026
Hardcover
688 Pages
Random House
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A Novel
James McBride
9780593422953
THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE US ALONE. Winner of the 2024 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and named a best book of the year by NPR Fresh Air, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and more, a vibrant novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
$19.00 US
Jul 29, 2025
Paperback
416 Pages
Riverhead Books
Forever for the Culture
Forever for the Culture
Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
Steven Underwood
9780807013380
THE CURATORS OF CULTURE: Celebrate Black digital art in this essay collection revealing how Black artists have shaped everything from TikTok dances to viral memes
$29.95 US
Jan 27, 2026
Hardcover
240 Pages
Beacon Press
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
Derrick Barnes
9781984836755
Newbery Honoree Derrick Barnes tackles timely issues of race and prejudice in this critically acclaimed novel about an accomplished Black boy who strives to be seen as human. A CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR HONOR BOOKA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Week Junior, Audible, Chicago Public LibraryKIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST SELECTIONJANE ADDAMS CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD HONOREE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
$17.99 US
Sep 23, 2025
Hardcover
272 Pages
Viking Books for Young Readers
Up Home
Up Home
One Girl's Journey
Ruth J. Simmons
9780593446027
“Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)“A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
$19.00 US
Jan 07, 2025
Paperback
224 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Three or More Is a Riot
Three or More Is a Riot
Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025
Jelani Cobb
9780593978207
From one of the definitive journalists of this era  -- acclaimed historian, Pulitzer finalist, staff writer at the New Yorker, and dean of Columbia Journalism School--comes a kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of our last turbulent decade.
$32.00 US
Oct 14, 2025
Hardcover
496 Pages
One World
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