The Verona Public Library stands with Black Lives Matter.
“The Verona Public Library strives to be a comfortable and welcoming community gathering place where people of all cultures and backgrounds come together to read, learn, and be inspired. We value diversity and work to build a culture of respect.”
While these words represent the core values and mission of the Verona Public Library, we recognize the injustices that BIPOC face, as well as the fact that we all must take responsibility for how to move forward. As a center of civic engagement, education and community, we believe the Verona Public Library has an important role to play. We recognize that it is not enough to just acknowledge the years of harm caused by systemic racism in our country. We must all do our part to promote a culture of anti-racism in order to fully realize our mission and core values. We will continue to work on our programming, collection development and education to do our part in promoting racial justice, equality and inclusion.
Books For Children
I Believe I Can by Grace Byers
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A Cabrera
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman
Last Stop On Market Street by Matt De La Pena
Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham
A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
A Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X Kendi
All the Colors We are by Katie Kissinger
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levin
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
The Barefoot Book of Children by Tessa Strickland
Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tontiuh
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Gracia
Books for Teens
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I Know Why the Caged Bird by Sings Maya Angelou
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stella By Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
All American Boys Jason by Reynolds
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Books for Adults
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
How to Be Antiracist by Ibran X. Kendi
When they Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
FOR MORE conversations about race, explore this curated list of titles from Hoopla (eBooks & audiobooks):
VIEW DOCUMENTARIES on social and systemic injustice on Kanopy, free with your library card.