This reading list is a great starting point for people who want to educate themselves about racism and the struggles Black people have faced in America:

• How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley
• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, Dr. Martin Luther King
• Race Matters, Cornel West
• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America, Ibi Zoboi
• A Practical Guide to Racism, C. H. Dalton
• How to Be Black, Baratunde Thurston
• Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,
  Austin Channing Brown
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Y. Davis
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
• Dear Martin, Nic Stone
• The Ways of White Folks, Langston Hughes
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
• The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Paper-Thin/Soul-Deep: A Collection of Personal Letters and Journal Entries of African-American Men, Billy Mims-Goodman (Compiler, Editor), Loren J. Blanchard (Editor), Keith W. Shelton (Editor)

Please share any books that should be added to this list.

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