Collection of nonfiction(essays, speeches, poetry, social commentary, memoirs etc) written by Black Americans or about Black History.
created by BookishDragonfly
last updated January, 2026
Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by W. E. B. Dubois (2009-11-04)
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Last Black Unicorn
Tiffany Haddish
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
Tabitha Brown
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
You So Black
Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.
Knucklehead: Poems
Tony Keith Jr.
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Whoopi Goldberg
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
Harlem Shadows: Poems
Claude McKay
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Esau McCaulley
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Renée Watson
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
The Collected Poems
Langston Hughes
Copper Sun
Countee Cullen
The Miseducation of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Zora Neale Hurston
Historically Black Phrases: From "I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends" to "Who All Gon' Be There?"
Jarrett Hill
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot
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