We Alive, Beloved: Poems

Frederick Joseph

Don't Call Us Dead

Danez Smith

A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

Trymaine Lee

I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

Michael Arceneaux

The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

Dorothy Roberts

A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

Nikki Giovanni

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

Cole Arthur Riley

The Souls of Black Folk

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)

Maya Angelou

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

Tarana Burke

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