Essential writings from Black feminists.
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last updated August, 2026
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King
Speaking Truth to Power
Anita Hill
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
Pauli Murray
Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
Barbara Ransby
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
Tiffany M. Gill
Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches
Marilyn Richardson
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
Kimberly McIntosh
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Tamara Winfrey Harris
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Y. Davis
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
Jennifer C. Nash
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26)
Michele Wallace
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
bell hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Adrienne Maree Brown
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
CherrĂe L. Moraga
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins
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