CELEBRATING Black History Month'S Authors AND BOOKS
Forbes: Top 10 African American Authors
1. Langston Hughes
2. Richard Wright
3. Toni Morrison
4. Zora Neale Hurston
5. Frederick Douglass
6. Alice Walker
7. W.E.B. Du Bois
8. Ralph Ellison
9. August Wilson
10. James Baldwin
Top Reads from Black Authors
Just As I Am by Cisely Tyson
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evvette Dionne
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Children's Books
Lullaby (for a Black Mother) by Langston Hughes, Illustrated by Sean Qualls
Brown Boy Joy by Dr. Thomishia Booker
Imani's Moon by Janay Brown-Wood, Illustrated by Hazel Mitchell
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History and Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison and Kwesi Johnson
