Some things we are enjoying reading and think you might like, too

Non-Fiction

Prophetic Faith by Trish Greeves

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

The Sum of Us by Heather McGee

The Four Pivots: Reimaging Justice, Reimaging Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

Caste & The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson        

Justice:  What’s the Right Thing to Do by Michael Sandel 

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates        

Just Mercy; A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson       

Nomad Land by Jessica Bruder            

Evicted:  Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond    

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein       

Solito:  A Memoir by  Javier Zamora           

White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo and Michael Eric Dyson       

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and Cornel West  

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem  

The Body Keeps the Score:  Brain Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk M.D.           

Children Under Fire by John Woodrow Cox    

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi

 

Fiction

American Dirt by Jean Cummins           

The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett              

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 

Tinker by Paul Harding      

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Jeffers

 

Children & YA

Children Under Fire by John Woodrow Cox    

Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman        Children’s Fiction       

This is My America by Kim Johnson              YA Fiction (12-17 Years)         

Good Girls Don’t Make History by Elizabeth Kirchner      Juvenile Nonfiction           

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater             YA Nonfiction    

Born on the Water by Nicole Hannah Smith & Renee Watson

Magnolia Flower by Dora Neale Hurston adapted by Ibram Kendi

Moses: When Harriett Tubman Led her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford