Reading List: Black History Month

  1. The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois
  2. African American History and Devotionals, Teresa Fry Brown
  3. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
  4. Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin
  5. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
  6. Beloved, Toni Morrison
  7. Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
  8. The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James Cone
  9. The African American Century, Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates
  10. Knowing Christ Crucified, M. Shawn Copeland
  11. Our Lives Matter, Pamela Lightsey
  12. A Testament of Hope, Martin Luther King Jr,
  13. Just A Sister Away, Renita Weems
  14. Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson
  15. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  16. Roots, Alex Haley
  17. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839, Fanny Kemble
  18. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
  19. To Die For The People, Huey Newton
  20. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
  21. Proud Shoes, Pauli Murray
  22. Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
  23. Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
  24. The Third Reconstruction, William Barber
  25. Enfleshing Freedom, M. Shawn Copeland
  26. Were You There? David Goatley
  27. Making A Way Out of No Way, Monica Coleman
  28. Katie’s Canon, Katie Geneva Canon
  29. Deeper Shades of Purple, ed. Stacey Floyd Thomas
  30. MARCH, vol. I, vol. II, and vol. III, John Lewis
  31. Breathe: A Letter To My Sons, Imani Perry
  32. Word, Like Fire, Valerie Cooper
  33. This Far by Faith, Quinton Dixie and Juan Willians
  34. Economic Ethics and The Black Church, Wylin D. Wilson