Explore, celebrate, and honor Black History this month and all year long with resources from TeachingBooks!

Virtual Book Tours

This year, we are uplifting Black voices by highlighting recent Virtual Book Tours with African American creators. The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tours are your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. Included in all Virtual Book Tour posts are original interviews with authors and illustrators, lesson plans, an activity designed for young people, and much more!

• Will’s Race for Home with Jewell Parker Rhodes
• All the Blues in the Sky with Renée Watson
• Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer with Quartez Harris
• The Polar Bear and the Ballerina with Eric Velasquez
• The Secret Library
• A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story with Nadia Salomon
• How Do I Draw These Memories? An Illustrated Memoir with Jonell Joshua
• Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show with Carole Boston Weatherford

Complete Video Book Readings

Enjoy these complete video book readings of titles by and about African Americans with students during class to incorporate books into your lessons. Explore the Book Guides, Activities and Lessons on each book page to dive deeper into learning. You can also create and distribute bookmarks so students can enjoy these readings at home with their family:

• Let's Fly!: Barrington Irving's Record-Breaking Flight Around the World
• Wash Day Love
• That Swingin' Sound!: The Musical Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
• My Block Looks Like
• Saturdays at Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
• The Sole Man: Jan Matzeliger's Lasting Invention
• Soul Step
• Saturday Morning at the Shop

Don’t forget, with Sora Discovery, as you are exploring on TeachingBooks, through any institution that has both TeachingBooks and Sora, you can have single-click access from TeachingBooks to digital titles in your Sora collections.

Promote Books with Book Trailers

Share these new titles by African American authors with your students using video book trailers. Create Shelf-Talkers for interactive displays or pass out bookmarks to entice your students to read these new titles!

• Greatness
• Soundtrack
• Will’s Race for Home
• Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer
• This Thing of Ours
• Kwesi and Nana Ruby Learn to Swim
• Ceecee: Underground Railroad Cinderella
• Nic Blake and the Remarkables
• Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature
• Through the Telescope: Mae Jemison Dreams of Space
• Blood in the Water
• The Family I’m In

Discover More

• Browse award-winning titles, such as recipients of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, which honors African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults, and the BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards, which honor books by Black authors that highlight the diversity of the Black experience.

• Check out the titles and resources on this curated list: Black is....2025

• Explore the African American Collection on TeachingBooks for thousands of texts representing African American cultural experiences and corresponding resources. Use filters to narrow by genre, grade level, and more.