Suggested Readings for Adults
- The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama
- With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together
by Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee
- 72 Hour Hold
by BeBe Moore Campbell
- Is Bill Cosby Right?
by Michael Eric Dyson
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Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
- Freshwater Road by Denise Nichols
- Joplin’s Ghost by Tananrive Due
- Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama
- Train Whistler Guitar by Albert Murray
- They Tell Me Of A Home by Daniel Black
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Fledgling by Octavia Butler
- Birth of A Nation: A Comic Novel by Aaron McGruder & Kyle Baker
- When Rocks Cry Out by Horace Butler
- A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
- What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
- The Wedding by Dorothy West
- The Black Parenting Book by Anne C. Beal, M.D., Linda Villarosa
- The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle
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What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace by Walter Mosley
Suggested Readings for Teens
- Beautiful Blackbird
by Ashley Bryan
- Let It Shine
by Ashley Bryan
- African Tales
by Ashley Bryan
- One Better by Rosalyn McMillan
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Fire Next Time by James A. Baldwin
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Kings and Queens of West Africa by Sylviane Anna Diouf
- The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
- Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
- A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew A. Henson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Suggested Readings for Boys
- When Daddy Prays by Nikki Grimes
- Mr. Chickee's Funny Money by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Adventures of Midnight Son by Denise Lewis Patrick
- Bigmama's by Donald Crews
- The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez
- Hold Fast to Dreams by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall by Javaka Steptoe
- Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
- Mansa Musa by Khephra Burns
- Me and Uncle Romie by Claire Hartfield
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Suggested Readings for Girls
- Aunt Clara Brown, Official Pioneer by Linda Lowery
- Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by James Ransome
- Girls Hold Up This World by Jada Pinkett Smith
- I Love My Hair by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
- In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems by Eloise Greenfield
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
- Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grim
- Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
- Cornrows by Camille Yarborough
- Shimmershine Queens by Camille Yarborough
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