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Recently Published 

• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

• Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama by ed. Nick Harmis

• We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

History for Children 

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

• Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson

• Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America by Tonya Bolden

Great Reads and Classics

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

For Younger Readers

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA)

• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe (Children's)

• Meet Addy: An American Girl (An American Girl: Addy #1) by Connie Rose Porter (Middle Grades)

• Words With Wings by Nikki Giovanni (Middle Grades)

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (YA)

• The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton (Children's)

• “Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.” - Angela Y. Davis

• “Your silence will not protect you.” - Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

• “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Y. Davis

• “No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.” - bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

• “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ” - James Baldwin

• “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” - Audre Lorde

• “Conversations on racism should never be about winning.” - Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

• I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.” - Octavia E. Butler

• “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” - Angela Y. Davis

• “The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

• “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” - James Baldwin

• “But race is the child of racism, not the father.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

• “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde

• “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

• “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house” - Audre Lorde