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50 Books Every Black Person Should Read…
- Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing by Jared Sexton
- Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
- Seize The Time by Bobby Seale
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- Dirty Little Secrets About Black History : Its Heroes & Other Troublemakers by Claud Anderson
- They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
- Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- The Miseducation of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
- Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop
- Black Skin White Mask by Frantz Fanon
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry
- Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila
- Assata by Assata Shakur
- Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by A N Wilson
- Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
- Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: The Rise of European Capitalism by Dr. John Henrik Clarke
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn
- Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
- The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Blueprint For Black Power by Dr. Amos Wilson
- PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America by Dr. Claud Anderson
- When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
- The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street by Robin Walker
- Harlem: A Century in Images by Deborah Willis
- Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks
- For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- Yurugu by Dr. Marimba Ani
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- The Philosophies and Teachings of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey
- Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer
- Soledad Brothers by George Jackson