Below is a working list of books we’ve read, have influenced us, and/or are on our personal reading lists. If you’ve read any of these books and are interested in writing a review, tell us on our submissions page! And if you have a suggestion, please comment below.
Autobiographies
- Assata, An Autobiography
- Decoded, Jay Z
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Janet Mock
- Revolutionary Suicide, Huey P. Newton
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Black Feminism and Womanism
- Ain’t I A Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
- At the Dark End of the Street, Danielle L. McGuire
- Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender, Mia McKenzie
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby
- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, Alice Walker
- Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis
History, Analysis and Theory
- Medical Apartheid:The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet A. Washington
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, Joy DeGruy
- Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Fiction
- Americanah, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- The Summer We Got Free, Mia McKenzie
- The Panther in the Hive, Olivia Cole
Know Your Enemy
- 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
- The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News — and Divided a Country, Gabriel Sherman
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu
Articles and Reports
- “Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected,” African American Policy Forum
- “White Privilege:” Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy McIntosh
Children and Young Adults
- The Skin I’m In, Sharon G. Flake
Around the Web
- “The Case for Reparations” Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
- “The Secret History of Guns” Adam Winkler, The Atlantic
