A curated reading list created to inform readers about the Black Lives Matter movement, structural and institutional racism, and what work needs to be done to dismantle white sua curated collection of titles complied to help inform readers about the Black Lives Matter movement, structural and institutional racism, and what work needs to be done to dismantle white supremacy.
Adult Titles:
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility: Why Its so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- We Can’t Breathe: on black lives, whites lies, and the art of survival by Jabari Asim
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Conversations in Black: on power, politics, and leadership by Ed Gordon
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
- A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- The Color of Law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- Stay Woke by Tahama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
- Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
- Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
- Brown: Poems by Kevin Young
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
- On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone
- An African American and Latinx history of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Nobody: casualties of America’s war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
Young Adult Titles
- This Book is Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds, adapted from the book by Ibram X. Kend
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
- Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Woke: a young poet’s call to justice by Mahogany L. Browne
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- For Every One by Jason Reynolds
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- March book series by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nathan Powell
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer
- X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
- Things that Make White People Uncomfortable (adapted for young adults) by Michael Bennett
- The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Children’s Titles
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia HIgginbotham
- Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
- Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Rob Sanders
- All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
- A Child’s Introduction to African American History by Jabari Asim
- Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
- Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
- Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
- The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Podcasts
- Code Switch
- Seeing White
- New York Times’ 1619
- Pod Save the People
- The United States of Anxiety
- Beyond Prisons
- Small Doses with Amanda Seales
- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
- The Nod
- 74 Seconds
- Reveal
- The Groundings
- Black History Year
- Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Yo, Is This Racist?
- Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
- The Stoop
- Justice in America
- Radical Imagination