| Books |
| Expert recommendations, picks from the best-sellers lists and more: |
| Intimations: Six Essays |
Zadie Smith |
| Did That Just Happen?!: Beyond "Diversity"-Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations |
Dr. Lauren Wadsworth and
Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker |
| "Dear White Leader" |
Dr. Joel Pérez |
| "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism" |
Robin DiAngelo |
| "How to Be an Antiracist" |
Ibram X. Kendi |
| "Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do" |
Jennifer L. Eberhardt |
| "Raising White Kids" |
Jennifer Harvey |
| "So You Want to Talk About Race" |
Ijeoma Oluo |
| "The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement" |
Matthew Horace and Ron Harris |
| "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" |
Bryan Stevenson |
| "The Fire Next Time" |
James Baldwin |
| "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" |
Reni Eddo-Lodge |
| "They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America's Racial Justice Movement" |
Wesley Lowery |
| "Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That The Movement Forgot" |
Mikki Kendall |
| "Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism" |
bell hooks |
| "Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People" |
Ben Crump |
| "From Slavery To Freedom: A History of African Americans" |
John Hope Franklin |
| "The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear" |
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and William Barber II |
| "Between the World and Me" |
Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" |
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi |
| "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" |
Michelle Alexander |
| Real-world issues are the basis for these best-selling stories: |
| "Invisible Man" |
Ralph Ellison |
| "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" |
Ntozake Shange |
| "The Underground Railroad" |
Colson Whitehead |
| "Their Eyes Were Watching God" |
Zora Neale Hurston |
| "Passing" |
Nella Larsen |
| "The Bluest Eye" |
Toni Morrison |
| "The Color Purple" |
Alice Walker |
| "White Teeth" |
Zadie Smith |
| "An American Marriage" |
Tayari Jones |
| "The Mothers" |
Brit Bennett |
| "Things Fall Apart" |
Chinua Achebe |
| Best-selling stories to help younger kids: |
| A Kids Book About… - website shares many books about various tough topics to have with kids |
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| "The Colors of Us" |
Karen Katz |
| "Let's Talk About Race" |
Julius Lester |
| "The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism" |
Pat Thomas |
| Sesame Street's "We're Different, We're the Same" |
Bobbi Jane Kates |
| "Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice" |
Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard |
| "Hair Love" |
Matthew A. Cherry |
| "I Am Enough" |
Grace Byers |
| "Happy in Our Skin" |
Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia |
| "Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement" |
Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes |
| "Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America" |
Jennifer Harvey |
| "Daddy Why Am I Brown?: A healthy conversation about skin color and family" |
Bedford F. Palmer |
| "A Terrible Thing Happened" |
Margaret Holmes |
| "Antiracist Baby" |
Ibram X. Kendi |
| "The Youngest Marcher" |
Cynthia Levinson |
| For pre-teens and teens: |
| "Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice" |
Veronica Chambers |
| "The Hate U Give" |
Angie Thomas |
| "Harbor Me" |
Jacqueline Woodson |
| "This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work" |
Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand |
| "Brown Girl Dreaming" |
Jacqueline Woodson |
| "Dear White People" |
Justin Simien |