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  • Caste : the origins of our discontents

    Isabel Wilkerson

    In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a…

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  • Jump at the Sun

    Alicia D. Williams

    The Newbery Honor-winning author of Alicia offers a picture book rendering of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood to illuminate the rich natural-world and cultural experiences that shaped her education and career as a storyteller.

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  • The Black church : this is our story, this is our song

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    “A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community’s abiding rock and its fortress.” –

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  • The Black Panther Party

    David Walker

    Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the impact and significance of the Panthers, from their social, educational, and healthcare programs that were designed to uplift the Black community…

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  • Together

    Amy Nathan

    “Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of…

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  • Four Hundred Souls

    Ibram X. Kendi

    A ‘choral history’ of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas–and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi,…

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  • Caste : the origins of our discontents

    Isabel Wilkerson

    In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a…

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  • The Wisdom of Sundays

    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Winfrey says, ‘If you want to be more fully present and live with a wide-open heart, Super Soul Sunday is where your journey begins.’ Now, for the first time, the moments of inspiration that have enlightened millions on the three-time Emmy Award-winning Super Soul Sunday are collected in The Wisdom of Sundays, a cherishable,…

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  • The Three Mothers

    Anna Malaika Tubbs

    In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America’s most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s…

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Kershaw County Library Updates

Spring 2021 In The Know Magazine

There's so much going on, in the near future with KCL! We're so excited to share our Spring 2021 In the Know Magazine with you! From game drives to storytimes to seminars, we've got your programming needs covered, and all from the comfort of your own home. Need to see us? Our hours are in the...

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Yoga is back… on Zoom!

Join KCL and Scott Freiberg of Yoga Without Walls for a Yoga experience from the comfort of your own home. Scott has lovingly tailored Yoga for EveryBody where we can now offer it online. Sign up by signing the waiver below and we'll e-mail you the Zoom link you'll use to join. [gravityform...

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Do You Know? Tuesday Trivia

Born on this day in 1904, this popular children's author's real name is Theodor Geisel. What do we know him as?

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