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  • Pam Kelley The best books that explain America’s systemic racism Book cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Book cover of Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of Between the World and Me Book cover of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
  • Marlene G. Fine and Fern L. Johnson The best books about the experiences of Black people in the US that white people don’t know but should Book cover of The Yellow House: A Memoir Book cover of Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love Book cover of Manchild in the Promised Land Book cover of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Marcia Chatelain The best books about racial capitalism and the USA Book cover of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida Book cover of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Book cover of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
  • Daryl Cumber Dance The best works on African American folklore Book cover of Mules and Men Book cover of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore Book cover of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Book cover of Invisible Man Book cover of The Music of Black Americans: A History
  • John Ernest The best books about early African American community activism Book cover of The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century Book cover of The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States Book cover of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 Book cover of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Book cover of The Underground Rail Road
  • Clara Silverstein The best memoirs from the front lines of standing up to racism Book cover of Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Book cover of Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South Book cover of Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism Book cover of Black Like Me Book cover of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
  • Lori Latrice Martin The best books about the tensions between hope and despair in the African American experience Book cover of Sula Book cover of The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches Book cover of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Book cover of Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality Book cover of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
  • Suzette Harrison The best books beautifully portraying the strength & vulnerabilities of African-American historical heroines Book cover of Sugar Book cover of The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner Book cover of Miss Ophelia Book cover of Mrs. Wiggins Book cover of Looking for Hope
  • Charlotte Hinger The best books about African Americans in the West after the Civil War Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction Book cover of In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 Book cover of In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80 Book cover of The Black Towns
  • Cynthia Sanders The best children’s books about Black education, dreams, and self-love Book cover of A Is for Ancestors: My Black College ABCs Book cover of My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams Book cover of Black Girl Magic Sprinkles Book cover of I Think I Need Speech Therapy Book cover of The Rules of a Little Boss: A book of self-love
  • Faye Snowden The best books that will make you fall in love with reading Book cover of Invisible Man Book cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of Jubilee Book cover of The Street
  • Robert E. Weems, Jr. The best books about African American business history Book cover of The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, To 1865 Book cover of Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics Book cover of An Economic Detour: A History of Insurance in the Lives of American Negroes Book cover of Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks Book cover of Black Business In The New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
  • Mark Whitaker The best books on the great Black migration Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America Book cover of Invisible Man Book cover of Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Book cover of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
  • Juyanne James The best books written by African American female authors every African American female author should read Book cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of The Bluest Eye Book cover of The Color Purple Book cover of The Autobiography of My Mother
  • Syl Sobel The best books on the history of African Americans and pro basketball Book cover of They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers Book cover of Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd Book cover of The NBA In Black And White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach Book cover of I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography Book cover of Breaking Barriers: A History of Integration in Professional Basketball
  • Marybeth Gasman The best books on the history of African American education Book cover of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 Book cover of Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi Book cover of Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • Stephane Dunn The best Black girl coming of age books everybody should read Book cover of The Bluest Eye Book cover of The Coldest Winter Ever Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of Push Book cover of Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
  • Kalisha Buckhanon The best books about Black women’s friendships Book cover of Passing Book cover of Sula Book cover of The Women of Brewster Place Book cover of Waiting to Exhale Book cover of Silver Sparrow
  • Lakisha Johnson The best of African American Christian fiction Book cover of Lady of the Church Book cover of Don't Push Me Book cover of He Won't Go Book cover of Every Voice Ain't From God Book cover of Living A Blessed Lie
  • Ciara L. Hill The best children's picture books that positively affirm African-American boys' everyday experiences Book cover of Bippity Bop Barbershop Book cover of The Adventures of Joshua and Pip: Calvin the Catfish Book cover of Max and the Tag-Along Moon Book cover of No Limits: A Story Celebrating the Unconditional Love of a Father Book cover of Delectable Vegetables
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