Maame
Jessica George You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty Akwaeke Emezi The Vanishing Half Brit Bennet Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston |
The Color Purple
Alice Walker The Weary Blues Langston Hughes Shadow and Act Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Song of Solomon Beloved The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison The Late Americans Brandon Taylor |
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander White Fragility Robin Diangelo How to be Anti-Racist Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X Kendi Dear White America Tim Wise The Color of Law Richard Rothstein So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo When They Call You a Terrorist Patrisse Cullors (BLM co-founder) and Asha Bandele I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Clint Smith Abolition. Feminism. Now. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie |
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Tatum Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind Harriet A. Washington From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Elizabeth Hinton The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson Stamped: Racism, Antiracist, and You Jason Reynolds Why I’m No Longer Talking to White people Reni Eddo The Fire Next Time James Baldwin Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, Become a Good Ancestor Layla F. Saad White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Ruby Hamad |
Amanda Gorman
Poet Laureate, Activist |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
And Still I Rise Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou You Are Only Just Beginning Morgan Harper Nichols Above Ground Clint Smith Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Man’s Things I Didn’t Do With This Body Amanda Gunn The Tradition Jericho Brown |
Chrome Valley
Mahogany L. Browne Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry Edited by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley Side Notes from the Archivist Anastacia-Renee No Sweet Without Brine Cynthia Manick Saltwater Demands a Psalm Kweku Abimbola A Fire in the Hills Afaa Michael Weaver Why Fathers Cry at Night Kwame Alexander |
Between the World and Me
The Beautiful Struggle Ta-Nehisi Coates The Autobiography of Malcom X Malcom X Becoming Michelle Obama A Promised Land Barack Obama Finding Me Viola Davis Token Black Girl Danielle Prescod The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs |
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson Somebody’s Daughter Ashley C. Ford Heavy: An American Memoir Kiese Laymon Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur Born a Crime Trevor Noah |
Mahogany Books
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