Celebrate your freedom to read at Leeward CC Library!
During the last week of September, we feature books that are currently or have been historically challenged in libraries, schools, and countries. Leeward CC Library has almost 100 titles that have been banned or challenged! We also had our own experience with censorship. If you are curious which books made the banned list, drop by the Learning Commons & Library! You can also visit our display virtually at go.hawaii.edu/Pnr.
For more information about Banned Books Week, go to go.hawaii.edu/GC9.
Success Connection Workshops: Online Success Series
How to Succeed in Online Learning
Wednesday, September 30, Noon – 1pm, via Zoom
Learn the top five, most important, things you need to know to be successful in online courses this Fall. Hint: It may not be what you think! Presented by Jordan Lewton, Online Counselor.
Email the Writing Center (writers@hawaii.edu) for the Zoom link which will also be posted on the Writing Center website (go.hawaii.edu/Gp8) on the day of the workshop.
The items in this display were selected to try to bring awareness to the continued plight faced by the African-American community in America while at the same time, trying to showcase more African-American Women writers. Included in the display are titles such as I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, Black music by Amiri Baraka, Yellow house by Sarah M. Broom, and How long? How long? : African American women in the struggle for civil rights by Belinda Robnett.
Not only do #BlackLivesMatter but #BlackStoriesMatter as well.
~ Jon, Reference Student Assistant
Here’s a list of titles on display! Click on a title to view more details about the item.
| Title |
Author |
| A raisin in the sun* |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
| A shining thread of hope : the history of Black women in America |
Hine, Darlene Clark |
| America’s Black congressmen |
Christopher, Maurine |
| Being Black: essays |
Prince, Althea |
| Beloved* |
Morrison, Toni |
| Black Americans, a decade of occupational change |
Small, Sylvia |
| Black music |
Baraka, Amiri |
| Black out loud; an anthology of modern poems by Black Americans. |
Adoff, Arnold |
| Go tell it on the mountain* |
Baldwin, James |
| Holding fast the dream : Hawaiʻi’s African American experience (DVD) |
Jackson, Miles M.; Altieri, Lisa.; Okino, Steve.; Aranita, Aaron.; Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.; Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities |
| How long? How long? : African-American women in the struggle for civil rights |
Robnett, Belinda |
| I know why the caged bird sings* |
Angelou, Maya |
| Invisible man* |
Ellison, Ralph |
| March. Book One |
Lewis, John |
| Monster* |
Myers, Walter Dean |
| My grandmother’s hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies |
Menakem, Resmaa |
| Native Son* |
Wright, Richard |
| Selected poems |
Brooks, Gwendolyn |
| Song of Solomon |
Morrison, Toni |
| The autobiography of Malcolm X* |
Haley, Alex |
| The collected poems of Langston Hughes |
Hughes, langston |
| The color purple* |
Walker, Alice |
| The origins of African American civil rights movement, 1865-1956 |
Zhang, Aimin |
| They followed the trade winds : African Americans in Hawaiʻi |
Jackson, Miles M. |
| Things fall apart* |
Achebe, Chinua |
| Yellow house |
Broom, Sarah M. |
| Zora Neale Hurston an annotated bibliography of works and criticism |
Davis, Cynthia |
* This title is on ALA’s Banned Book list
If you’re interested in more, you can browse titles in our OverDrive collection: Race, Civil Rights, Equality…Zeitgeist!
