Celebrate Juneteenth by attending a local community event:

BOOKS

• South to America, Imani Perry
• Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America, Keisha Blain
• Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter, Therese Taylor-Stinson
• You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's Radical Challenge, Jamie McGhee and Adam Hollowell
• Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class, Blair Kelley Ph.D
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
• Trailblazing Black Women of Washington State, Marilyn Morgan
• To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of MLK, Jr., Edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass

MOVIES

• 10,000 Black Men Named George
• Boycott
• The Killing Floor
• Selma
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• 13^th
• King in the Wilderness
• Harriet
• Brother Outsider

OTHER RESOURCES

• Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum website about Black Women Leaders
• Washington Secretary of State blog about local leader Maxine Mimms
• 1619 Project

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Black History Is Now! The Puget Sound Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) will host “Black History is Now,” a Black History Month celebration and conversation with Black labor leaders, on Tuesday, Feb. 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Teamsters Hall in Tukwila.