Harlem Stage Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Harlem Stage on XAn award-winning performing arts center that features diverse local, national, and global artists in music, film, opera, theater, dance, literature, and more.

A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir
Jason Diakité@jasontimbuktu's A Drop of Midnight comes to Harlem Stage. With music & storytelling, he shares his experiences growing up in Sweden overcoming racism and more to become one of the country's biggest hip hop artists and best-selling authors. Get Tickets:https://bit.ly/3njttXb https://t.co/7NltOskj7u
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Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Aidan LevyFrom our friends @SchomburgCenter! TUE, 12/6 at 7PM they host a book launch to celebrate the release of Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy. The Center holds the materials of Rollins in its collections. #SchomburgCenter https://t.co/jO8ZUJuh6G https://t.co/GYmyRseyww
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Funnyhouse of a Negro
Adrienne KennedyPictured is Adrienne Kennedy, writer of the play FunnyHouse of a Negro. Image provided to Harlem Stage courtesy of Ms. Kennedy, which was taken during the time the work was first in production in 1964. Tickets for our show featuring her work in link below https://t.co/bY1R6dycxh https://t.co/kaqZzIdbXJ
Paperback, 2011
$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Learn more: Color and paint
A. PFrom our friends @PBS. The latest series by renowned scholar @HenryLouisGates, MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE chronicles the vast social networks & organizations created by & for Black people beyond the reach of the “White gaze.” Learn More: https://t.co/MJSo4Bn7Qb https://t.co/DYP8L7JUiy
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Trouble in Mind
Alice ChildressHarlem Stage Board Member @laChanze talks to @BroadwayDirect about Alice Childress’s play "Trouble in Mind" and its "moving look at racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theater." https://t.co/84vkNQPvKl https://t.co/4qwiNq6AL3
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Power Movement
Rebecca RissmanWe are excited to present our new series #BlackArtsMovement: Examined. Join us for seven programs that examine this cultural movement of the 1960s & 70s and its relationship to race, gender, sexuality, art, and the Black Power Movement. GET TICKETS at: https://t.co/TGkCF6ciBb https://t.co/UeFuz7DlrO
Hardcover, 2014
$37.07Member price:$18.53 + Free shipping50% off your first book