BOOKS
Brown Girl Dreaming
By: Jacqueline Woodson
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Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.
SOAR
By: David C. Banks
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“rare book that can bring tears to your eyes while showing the way to deep and meaningful social change”
Akata Witch
By: Nnedi Okorfor
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"Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies.
Salvage The Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
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A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned.
Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
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follows one African-American man's quest for identity during the 1920s and 1930s—and decades later
Homegoing
By: Yaa Gyasi
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This formidable, epic novel begins with two African sisters who experience life during the slave trade differently:
Black Privilege
By: Charlamagne Tha God
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In Black Privilege, Charlamagne presents his often controversial and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success.
the Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
By: Issa Rae
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(Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool
You Can't Touch My Hair
By: Robinson Phoebe
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A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinson
Grace
By: Natasha Deo`n
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For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa.
Collected Poems:1974-2004
By: Rita Dove
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Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.
Sister, Sister
By: Eric Jerome Dickey
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Fresh and in-your-face, this witty novel depicts a world where women sometimes have to alter their dreams, but never have to stop embracing the future.
No Disrespect
By: Sista Souljah
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An honest look at growing up as an African-American female in the inner city offers an account of the tense relationship that exists between African-American women and men, the Black church, guns and drugs, and Black nationalism.
The Big Book of Exit Strategies
By: Jamal May
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In his debut poetry collection, Hum, Jamaal May wowed readers with the force of his visceral, stunning language.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
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a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic.