BCALA and GNCRT Collaboration: Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters
About the Project
As the next iteration of our ongoing collaboration between the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), and the Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table of the American Library Association (GNCRT), we are launching an updated version of our Black Lives Matter comics reading list with a focus on Black Literature. Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters.
This list of 50 comics titles for Juvenile, Teen (YA), and Adult audiences is centered on Black creators, Black stories, and Black histories for all ages. This list includes many titles from our earlier comics lists, while adding others. The goal of this list is not to be a prescriptive spectrum of all the subject or format content out there in the landscape of Black stories or comics. Rather, this is a step, another step, towards building collections and conversations that spark hope, demand justice, address erasure, and agitate for learning - using both sides of our brains through words and pictures. Because when ‘Black lives are lost, Black stories are lost’ (Stacey Robinson).
BCALA x GNCRT Black Lives Matter, Black Literature Matters Comics Reading Lists
Themed Black Lives Matter comics reading mini-lists with a continued focus on Black literature: Superheroes, Afrofuturism, Good Trouble, Fantasy & Horror, and Greenwood Avenue.
Criteria and Resources
Black Lives Matter: Comics as a Powerful Lens for Social Justice
Continuing our ongoing collaboration, the Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) are launching a series of webinars with creators discussing the relevance of comics to the Black Lives Matter movement - and beyond.
The first in this series - Black Lives Matter: Comics as a Powerful Lens for Social Justice - features Stacey Robinson and John Jennings, co-creators (with writer Tony Medina), of I Am Alfonso Jones - the first graphic novel for young readers that addressed that Black Lives Matter movement and one of our featured comics on the BCALA / GNCRT Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List.
Session moderated by Deimosa Webber-Bey, Director, Information Service & Cultural Insights, Scholastic Inc.
