Black Lives Matter & Racial Justice

Fiction

• The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin
• Children of Blood & Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
• If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin
• Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult
• An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• Their Eyes Were Watching God – Nora Neale Hurston
• Beloved – Toni Morrison

Criminal Justice System

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence & Resistance in the United States – Maya Schenwar, et al.

Non-Fiction

• So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
• Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the 21st Century – Monique Morris
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism – Safiya Noble
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race – Beverly Daniel Tatus
• Me & White Supremacy – Layla Saad
• Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement – Angela Davis et al.
• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
• Men we Reaped: A Memoir – Jesmyn Ward
• Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India – Shashi Tharoor
• Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery & the Troubled History of America’s Universities – Craig Steven Wilder
• How to be an Antiracist – Ibram Kendi
• Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis – Annegret Staiger
• Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone & Its Troubled Legacy – James Patterson