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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
By Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson (Illustrator)
Chicken with Plums
By Marjane Satrapi
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
By Sharon Rudahl
I Am Alfonso Jones*
By Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson (Illustrator), and John Jennings (Illustrator), foreword by Bryan Stevenson
King Shaka *
By Luke W. Molver
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom
By David F. Walker, Marissa Louise (Illustrator) and Damon Smyth (Illustrator)
Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies
Edited by Quincy Saul, Songe Riddle (Illustrator), Seth Tobocman (Illustrator), and Mac McGill (Illustrator)
Miles Morales: Shock Waves *
By Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon (Illustrator)
Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
By Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon
Mother Jones: Labor Leader
By Connie Colwell Miller, Steve Erwin (Illustrator), Charles Barnett III (Illustrator)
Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
By The Nelson Mandela Foundation, Umlando Wezithombe (Illustrator)
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy (Adapted by), John Jennings (Illustrator)
A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
By Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocals of the Elders of Zion
By Will Eisner, Umberto Eco (Introduction by)
Puerto Rico Strong: A Comics Anthology Supporting Puerto Rico Disaster
By Vita Ayala, Hazel Newlevant (Editor), Desiree Rodriguez (Editor)
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story
By David A. Robertson, Scott B. Henderson, (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Colourist)