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\u00a0<\/a>Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers<\/strong><\/em><\/a> features baritone vocals and piano accompaniment over eight tracks by black composers, many with lyrics by eminent poet Langston Hughes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is an anthology curated by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, meant to act as a counterpart to Brown’s famous works on vulnerability.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo is an illustrated collection of essays inspired by a podcast and telling the stories of prominent Black women’s journeys to self-love and healing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more recently-published celebrations of the Black experience, try:<\/strong><\/p>\n Love in Color<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Bolu Babalola, a striking retelling of myths, especially from West Africa, but drawing from folklore traditions around the world.<\/p>\n Black Magic<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Chad Sanders, on the resilience and confidence the author gained from navigating America as a Black man, and how it contributed to his career success.<\/p>\n We Are Each Others’ Harvest<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Natalie Baszile, detailing and celebrating the past and present of African-American farming, including how American culture has been shaped by these connections to the land.<\/p>\n The Disordered Cosmos<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a combination love letter to science and vision for a more inclusive scientific community, criticizing harmful systems which are in place.<\/p>\n Read Until You Understand<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Farrah Jasmine Griffin, which dives into historical records of Black genius, from Malcolm X to Stevie Wonder to Toni Morrison, to show the wisdom of Black culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I’m highlighting several things I’ve recently ordered for the library that I think will add beauty and insight to our collection – focused on the experience of African-Americans, including full measures of joy, grief, hope, shame, love, and vulnerability. Have your own reading or listening suggestions? Tell us in[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11,1,8],"tags":[2352,4354,2306,573,3253,536],"class_list":["post-42005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-african-american","tag-black-americans","tag-composers","tag-essays","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-aVv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42005"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42005\/revisions\/42085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/you-are-your-best-thing.png?resize=170%2C258&ssl=1\")
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