• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
• Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, by Barbara Ransby
  Mentoring a New Generation of Activists (See Chapter 8, p. 239)
• Eloquent Rage, by Brittney Cooper
• Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
• Mindful of Race, by Ruth King
• Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups, by Diane Goodman
• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah
• >Redefining Realness, by Janet Mock
• >Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo

 PRISON/POLICE ABOLITION AND MASS INCARCERATION

• A Beautiful Ghetto by Devin Allen
• A Time to Die by Tom Wicker
• Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prison, and Torture by Angela Davis
• Abolition Reading List (Courtesy of Professor Celeste Day Moore)
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
• Caged by New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative
• Exoneree Diaries by Alison Flowers
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Gilmore Ruth
• Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams
• Six by Ten Mateo Hoke & Taylor Pendergrass
• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson 
• The Long Term by Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, et. al.
• The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect by Maya Schenwar
• “Are Prisons Necessary?”  by Peter Kropotkin
• “Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation” by Angela Davis 
• “Summer Heat” by Mariame Kaba

ANTI-RACISM 

• Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in Black America by Kwame Ture & Charles V. Hamilton*
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
• How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Killing Rage, Ending Racism by Bell Hooks
• My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain Aaron Dixon
• Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke
• Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Color Of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The Torture Machine Flint Taylor
• Toward the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon
• When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” Audre Lorde
• “The Other America” Dr. King