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Today’s book highlight is History of the Black Dollar by Angel Rich, which describes the real history of the Black economy within the US and its impact on Black entrepreneurship. You can look forward to reading with others and discussing the book on our app!

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Check out our founder, Leslie Winston, who visited Birmingham, AL for the @BronzeValley_ Pitch Night! We super are excited for the future of Monocle and can’t wait for y'all to see what we've been working on. Be sure to sign-up for the beta on our website readonmonocle.com/#signup

New month, new reads! Check out some of these amazing books recommended by the founders of Monocle. Let us know what books are on your reading list for June! #reading #ebooks #Monocle #ReadonMonocle #ereader #annotatedreading

Freedom’s Journal sought not only to advocate for the abolition of slavery, but also to serve the local New York community and combat negative depictions of African Americans in the New York press. It was a model for other African American and abolitionist newspapers to come.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a milestone in African-American literature. It is a must-read that captures its audience with a social commentary that peels back the curtain on being Black in America. #BlackHistoryMonth #day19of28

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel, The Color Purple. #BlackHistoryMonth #day19of28

Granville Tailer Woods was an inventor who held more than 50 patents in the U.S. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. His work assured a safer and better public transportation system for the cities of the United States.

Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States.

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is the oral history of Cudjo Lewis—or Oluale Kossola–the only living African “cargo” of the slave ship, Clotilda. In this book, Zora Neale Hurston masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it.

Join us in highlighting James Baldwin and a few of his many creations. As a writer, he garnered acclaim accords various mediums including essays, novels, plays, and poetry. #BlackHistoryMonth #day15of28

"The library does more than furnish facts and circulate books. With its reading and study rooms, its lecture and classrooms, it forms a center from which radiates many influences for general betterment." #BlackHistoryMonth #day14of28

Originally founded in Chicago as Third World Press in 1967, the Third World Press Foundation has been publishing African-American literature under the direction of founder Haki Madhubuti for 50 years. #BlackHistoryMonth #day13of28

To be the first black software engineer at a leading technology firm in the 1940s came with its trials and tribulations. In this memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, Stanley Ford. #BlackHistoryMonth #day12of28