Non-fiction

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (essay)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (Autobiography)
• All About Love by Bell Hooks (creative nonfiction)
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
• We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby (humor)
• Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom by Barbra Smith
• A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (also available as an audiobook on Spotify rn!)
• Queenie Book by Candice Carty-Williams
• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• I’m Still Here - Austin Channing Brown
• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

Fiction

• You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Fictional Autobiography)
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA novel)
• Forty-Three Septembers: Essays by Jewelle Gomez
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Poetry

• The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
• On The Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
• Jonestown & other madness by Pat Parker
• Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez
• Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez
• A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry by Sonia Sanchez (spoken)
• Lighthead by Terrance Hayes

Black Owned Bookstores in NYC

• http://www.sistersuptownbookstore.com/ NYC
• http://www.thelitbar.com/ NYC
• https://www.cafeconlibrosbk.com/ NYC

Organizations

• Founder Statement | Center for Antiracist Research

Protest Support

• https://supportwomenshealth.salsalabs.org/mkefreedomfund/index.html

GoFundMes

• https://www.gofundme.com/f/justiceforjacobblake

Movies

• Criminal Justice system as it pertains to racial disparity:
  • 13th
  • The Central Park five or When they see us
  • Just Mercy
  • Clemency
  • Crime + Punishment
  • The Hurricane
  • Crown Heights
• The Civil Rights Movement:
  • Selma
  • I am not your Negro
  • John Lewis. Good Trouble
  • King in the Wilderness
  • Freedom Riders
  • Malcolm X