Stamped: From the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton

Twisted: A Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri

Black Intellectuals by William M. Banks

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

Just Above My Head by James Baldwin

Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells

This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Early American Studies) by Marisa J. Fuentes

Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily Owens

Daughter of the Empire State by Jacqueline A. McLeod

Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States by Joel Williamson

Trailblazer by Dorothy Butler Gilliam

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing