BLACK LIVES MATTER READING GUIDE

“READING IS AN EXERCISE IN EMPATHY; AN EXERCISE IN WALKING IN SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES FOR A WHILE.”

MALORIE BLACKMAN Why have we put this guide together?

We are very proud of our community at Archway Trust and the diversity of students’ backgrounds who all come together to make this community special. We want to ensure that all of our students are introduced to a variety of different voices and one way that we can do that is through reading.

Ms Gregory, the Librarian at Emmanuel school, has put together a reading guide of books that exemplify the principles of the movement. The books are sorted into three categories - 11+, 13+ and 16+ - and have been chosen to help young people appropriately explore race, identity, family and community.

A complete list of all these books can be found at the back of this booklet.

If you are interested in reading beyond this list, the National Literacy Trust also provide book lists appropriate for all age groups and you can find them at this link: https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/black-lives-matter-book-lists-ages-0- 16/

Many public libraries have limited eBook services; nevertheless some of these books can be found online at your local library. Students over 14 can sign up for their local library easily online here: https://myaccount.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/service/join_a_library

Unfortunately, you can only sign up online if you are 14 or over. Students under 14 cannot sign up online themselves and would have to go to the library in person which is not possible at the moment.

A COMPLETE BULLET POINT LIST (- WITHOUT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SUCH AS BLURBS)- CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS BOOKLET 11 Star Pick: Ghost Boys +

In Chicago, a white police officer shoots and kills black 12-year-old Jerome, mistaking a toy gun the child is playing with for a real one. As a ghost, young Jerome witnesses the aftermath of his death, including scenes with his family, the police and the media.

Jerome goes on to meets another ghost, that of the real life figure Emmett Till: a black boy whom himself was murdered in 1955. Till shows Jerome that hundreds of other "ghost boys" just like them are left to roam the streets of America. The story also follows other characters, including Sarah, the daughter of the white officer who killed Jerome, Jerome's friend Carlos, whose toy gun Jerome was playing with, and Jerome's younger sister Kim.

Sometimes, Donte wishes Who are you? What is he were invisible. As one of racism? Where does it the few black boys at come from? Why does it Middlefield Prep, most of exist? What can you do to the students don't look like disrupt it? Learn about him. They don't like him social identities, the history either. Dubbing him "Black of racism and resistance Brother," Donte's teachers against it, and how you and classmates make it can use your anti-racist Black Brother, clear they wish he were This book is Anti- lens and voice to move the Black Brother, by more like his lighter- Racist, by Tiffany world toward equity and Jewell Parker skinned brother, Trey. Jewell and Aurelia liberation. Rhodes Durand

Living on the South Isabella has always felt Crongton council estate has pulled between two its worries. Having strayed worlds, and now that her off his turf on a 'heroic' (if parents are divorced, she's misguided) mission to help is beginning to realize that out a girl, McKay finds being split between Mom himself facing a friend's and Dad is more than crazy ex-boyfriend, some switching houses, power-tripping hood- switching nicknames, Crongton Knights, rats and a notoriously Blended, by switching backpacks: it's by Alex Wheatle violent gangster with a Sharon M. Draper also about switching vendetta. identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white. Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another 1 Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in 1 mesmerizing verse in Brown Girl Dreaming. +

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement

Written in the spirit of Nina Simone’s song “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” this vibrant book is a perfect introduction to both historic and present-day icons and heroes.

Meet figureheads, leaders and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and athletes like Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams

In Crossover, by Jason Reynolds, 12-year-old Josh and his twin Jordan have basketball in their blood. They’re kings of the court, star players for their school team. Their father used to be a champion player and they each want nothing more than to follow in his footsteps.

Both on and off the court, there is conflict and hardship which will test Josh’s bond with his brother. In this heartfelt novel in verse, the boys find that life doesn’t come with a play-book and it's not all about winning.

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone tells the story of William "Scoob" Lamar, an eleven year old black kid, and G'ma, his white grandmother, and the road trip they embark upon across the American South.

Set against the backdrop of the segregation history of the American South, Scoob is about to discover that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--his G'ma included.

In The Faraway Truth by Janae Marks, Zoe Washington never met her father, who was sent to prison right before she was born.

When she receives a letter from him on her twelfth birthday, it's a huge surprise. Zoe's mom always told her that Marcus was a liar, a monster, but he sounds ... nice. Zoe starts to investigate the crime - and the deeper she digs, the more she doubt the conviction. Is her father innocent? Or is he a liar? Zoe is determined to find out. 13 Star Pick: The Hate U Give +

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

More books that explore POLICE BRUTALITY...

When Marvin Johnson's A bag of chips. That's all twin, Tyler, goes to a party, sixteen-year-old Rashad is what starts as harmless fun looking for at the corner turns into a shooting, bodega. What he finds followed by a police raid. instead is a fist-happy cop The next day, Tyler is found who mistakes Rashad for a dead, and a video leaked shoplifter. online tells an even more Two teens--one black, one chilling story: Tyler has white--grapple with the Tyler Johnson was been shot and killed by a All American boys, repercussions of a single here, by Jay Coles police officer. by Jason Reynolds violent act.

When sixteen-year-old Justyce McAllister is top of Tariq Johnson dies from his class and set for the Ivy two gunshot wounds, his League – but none of that community is thrown into matters to the police officer an uproar. Tariq was black. who just put him in The shooter, Jack Franklin, handcuffs. is white. In the aftermath of Justyce looks to the Tariq's death, everyone has teachings of Dr. Martin something to say, but no Luther King Jr. for answers. How it went down, two accounts of the events Dear Martin, by But do they hold up by Kekla Magoon line up. Nic Stone anymore? 13 Star Pick: Noughts & + Crosses

Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.

Callum is a nought: pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker, there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life.

They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question.

Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other.

But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger . . . and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come.

Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic. Now a BBC TV series! Biggie Smalls was 1 right. Things done 3 changed. But that + doesn’t mean that Jade is Quadir and Jarrell are striving for okay letting their best success in a world friend Steph’s tracks lie that seems like it's forgotten in his trying to break her. But bedroom after he’s some opportunities she killed—not when his could do without, like beats could turn any the mentor programme Bed-Stuy corner into a Let Me Hear A Piecing Me Together, for 'at-risk' girls. Why is celebration, not after Rhyme, by Tiffany by Renee Watson Jade always seen as Jackson years of having each someone to fix? other’s backs.

There are 96 things After Will's brother is Genesis hates about shot in a gang crime, he herself. She keeps a list. knows the next steps. Like #95: Because her Don't cry. Don't snitch. skin is so dark, people Get revenge. So he gets call her charcoal and in the lift with a gun, eggplant. How can she determined to follow stand up with her dark, The Rules. Only when dark skin knowing even the lift door opens, her own family thinks Buck walks in, Will's lesser of her because of friend who died years Genesis Begins it? Why, why, why won't Long Way Down, by ago. And Dani, who was Again, by Alicia D. the lemon or yogurt or Jason Reynolds shot years before that. Williams fancy creams lighten Will has to ask himself if her skin like they're he really knows what supposed to? he's doing.

Ibi Zoboi draws on her In 1959 Virginia, the own experience as a lives of two girls on young Haitian opposite sides of the immigrant, infusing this battle for civil rights will exploration of America be changed forever. with magical realism Sarah Dunbar is one of and vodou culture. the first black students After they leave Port-au- to attend the previously Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s all-white Jefferson High mother is detained by School. U.S. immigration. American Street, by Lies we tell ourselves, Linda Hairston is the Trapped by an Ibi Zoboi by Robin Talley daughter of one of the impossible choice, will town's most vocal she pay the price for the opponents of school American dream? integration

Sixteen-year-old Marlon By 1 has made his mum a day, 3 promise - he'll never 17-yr-old + follow his big brother, Kiera Johnson Andre, down the wrong is a student. By path. So far, it's been night, she joins easy, but when a date 1000s of black gamers ends in tragedy, Marlon who duel worldwide in finds himself hunted. the secret online game, Marlon's out of choices - SLAY. But when a teen can he become the in Kansas City is killed Orangeboy, by person he never wanted Slay, by Brittney over a dispute in the Patrice Lawrence to be, to protect Morris SLAY world, the media everyone he loves? labels it an exclusionist, racist hub for thugs.

Jasmine and Chelsea Bri wants to be one of have started a Women's the greatest rappers of Rights Club at school. all time. As the daughter They post everything of an underground hip from videos of Chelsea hop legend who died performing her poetry right before he hit big, to Jasmine's response Bri’s got massive shoes to being reduced to a to fill. But when her first racist and sexist song goes viral for all stereotype in the the wrong reasons, Bri school's theatre finds herself at the Watch Us Rise, by department. And soon, On the Come Up, by centre of controversy Renee Watson and they've gone viral, Angie Thomas and portrayed by the Ellen Hagan creating a platform media as more menace they never could've than MC. predicted.

Avoiding the violence A powerful debut about that has given his one girl's journey to neighborhood a bad reconnect with her name, urban youth Ali mother and learn the spends busy days truth about her father attending school, in of the Jim boxing and helping his Crow South. family while looking out for a troublesome friend In Alcolu, South and a Tourette's- Carolina, in 1944, 12- afflicted brother only to year-old Ella is shocked by the news that her When was the be brutally targeted in How High the Moon, schoolmate George has greatest, by Jason the aftermath of a by Karyn Parsons been arrested for the Reynolds misunderstanding. murder of two local white girls. 1 Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a 3 caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. +

Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands.

Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.

Star Pick: Stamped

In this young readers adaptation of his award-winning title, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, writing with award-winning author Jason Reynolds, chronicles the story of anti-black, racist ideas over the course of American history.

Racist ideas in our country did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Instead, they were developed by some of the most brilliant minds in history to justify and rationalise the nation's deeply entrenched discriminatory policies. But while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. In shedding light on the history of racist ideas in America, this adaptation offers young readers the tools they need to combat these ideas - and, in the process, gives society a reason to hope.

“A powerful collection that Cowritten by Malcolm X’s opens the reader’s eyes to daughter, this riveting and the breadth and diversity of revealing novel follows the contemporary experience formative years of the man in America” June Sarpong, whose words and actions author of DIVERSIFY shook the world.

Featuring some of the most acclaimed Malcolm Little’s parents have always told him bestselling American black authors writing for that he can achieve anything, but from what teens today, Black Enough is an essential he can tell, that’s a pack of lies—after all, his collection of captivating stories about what it’s father’s been murdered, his mother’s been like to be young and black. Whether you are in taken away, and his dreams of becoming a America, the UK, or anywhere across the globe, lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. this powerful collection of stories will remind X follows Malcolm from his childhood to his you of our shared humanity. imprisonment for theft at age twenty. 16 Star Pick: Black Girl + Unlimited

Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere.

New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side.

There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for.

Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age.

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.

Meet Queenie. She just can't cut a break. Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Stuck between a boss who doesn't seem to see her, a family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested), and trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her, it's no wonder she's struggling.

A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. 16 NON-FICTION + These non-fiction books have been written and published for adults. Whilst they make important contributions to discussions of race and racism, this list is intended for students who are 16+ as some of these books discuss mature topics and use sophisticated language that may be difficult to access if you are younger than 16 and/or are unused to reading non-fiction texts.

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'Exterminate all the brutes' is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, Sven Lindqvist takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, the author exposes the roots of genocide in Africa via his own journey through the Saharan desert. As Lindqvist shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—"cleansing" the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed European colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust.

Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain.

First published in the 80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Peter Fryer's history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was - and is - a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda

You’re British.

Your parents are British.

Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.

So why do people keep asking where you’re from?

We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch’s personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be – and an urgent call for change.

Across four exhibitions, The Place Is Here, edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles, brought together over one hundred works by forty artists and collectives, spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and expanded archival displays. It documents the artistic response to UK racism. 16 Star Pick: Why I'm No + Longer Talking To White People About Race

A charged and necessary wake-up call to pervasive, institutionalised racism, Eddo-Lodge’s searing polemic reconstitutes the frame of the argument around race, removing it from the hands of those with little experience of its resonances. From ambient and lazy cultural stereotyping to open hostility, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race is a clarion call of understanding.

If you pick only one book to read for Black Lives Matter, choose this one! 16 RACE AND FEMINISM: +

Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered Islamophobia and solidarity with global struggles, showing that the fight for gendered liberation can change the world for everybody when we refuse to think of it solely as women's work. Including testimonials from Sisters Uncut, migrant groups working for reproductive justice and prison abolitionists, Olufemi emphasises the link between feminism and grassroots organising.

Reclaiming feminism from the clutches of the consumerist, neoliberal model, Feminism, Interrupted shows that when 'feminist' is more than a label, it holds the potential for radical transformative work.

To Exist Is To Resist, edited by Akwugo Emejulu brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black feminist Europe.

Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others' living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the contibutors explore gender, class, sexuality and legal status to show that they are both invisible - presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies - and hyper-visible - assumed to be passive and sexualised, angry and irrational.

Slay In Your Lane is an honest and provocative book that recognises and celebrates the strides black women have already made, while providing practical advice for those who want to do the same and forge a better, visible future.

Illustrated with stories from best friends Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke’s own lives, and using interviews with dozens of the most successful black women in Britain, Slay In Your Lane is essential reading for a generation of black women inspired to find success in every area of their lives.

Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.

This timely and important book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, women's studies, sociology, literature and postcolonial studies. 16 OTHER: +

Challenging the notion that the election of Barack Obama signalled a new era of colourblindness in the United States, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander reveals how racial discrimination was not ended but merely redesigned. By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of colour, the American criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, relegating millions to a permanent second-class status even as it formally adheres to the principle of colourblindness.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book Citizen recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essays, images and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, ""post-race"" society.

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Becoming, by Sings is a 1969 Michelle Obama, is autobiography describing the truly inspirational, the early years of American deeply personal story writer and poet Maya of one woman’s Angelou. The first book of journey to success seven, it is a coming-of-age from one of the story that illustrates how world’s most powerful strength of character can and influential icons. help overcome racism and trauma. Felix Love has never BLACK & LGBTQ+ been in love--and, yes, he's painfully aware of Black LGBTQ+ people face forms of the irony. He desperately wants to racial prejudice that can differ from know what it's like. 'typical' expressions of racism. Here are What's worse is that, some Young Adult books that explore even though he is proud and highlight these unique of his identity, Felix experiences... secretly fears that he's one marginalization too Felix Ever After, by many--Black, queer, and Kacen Callender transgender--to ever get his own happily-ever- after.

Liz Lighty has always Michael waits in the believed she's too black, stage wings, wearing a too poor, too awkward pink wig, pink fluffy coat to shine in her small, and black heels. One rich, prom-obsessed more step will see him midwestern town. The illuminated by spotlight. only thing that makes it He has been on a halfway bearable is the journey of bravery to get new girl in school, Mack. here, and he is almost She's smart, funny, and ready to show himself to just as much of an the world in bold You Should See Me outsider as Liz. Then Liz colours... The Black Flamingo, in a Crown, by Leah finds out that they're by Dean Atta Johnson both running for the Can he emerge as The school's scholarship for Black Flamingo? prom queen...

There are no more In a series of personal monsters anymore, or so essays, prominent the children in Lucille journalist and LGBTQIA+ are taught. With her activist George M. doting parents, Jam has Johnson explores his grown up with this childhood, adolescence, lesson all her life. But and college years in when she meets Pet, a New Jersey and Virginia. creature made of horns and colours and claws, Not suitable for under she must reconsider 16's. Pet, by Akwaeke what she's been told.

Emezi All Boys Aren't Blue, What do you do when by George Johnson every every adult you know is in denial?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Summary of 11+ books:

GHOST BOYS, by Jewell Parker Rhodes BLACK BROTHER, BLACK BROTHER, by Jewell Parker Rhodes THIS BOOK IS ANTI-RACIST, by Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand CRONGTON KNIGHTS, by Alex Wheatle BLENDED, by Sharon M. Draper BROWN GIRL DREAMING, by Jacqueline Woodson YOUNG, GIFTED, BLACK, by Jamia Wilson CROSSOVER, by Kwame Alexander CLEAN GETAWAY, by Nic Stone THE FARAWAY TRUTH, by Janae Marks

Summary of 13+ books:

THE HATE U GIVE, by Angie Thomas TYLER JOHNSON WAS HERE, by Jay Coles ALL AMERICAN BOYS, by Jason Reynolds HOW IT WENT DOWN, by Kekla Magoon DEAR MARTIN, by Nic Stone NOUGHTS & CROSSES, by Malorie Blackman LET ME HEAR A RHYME, by Tiffany Jackson PIECING ME TOGETHER, by Renee Watson GENESIS BEGINS AGAIN, by Alicia D. Williams LONG WAY DOWN, by Jason Reynolds AMERICAN STREET, by Ibi Zoboi LIES WE TELL OURSELVES, by Robin Talley ORANGEBOY, by Patrice Lawrence SLAY, by Brittney Morris WATCH US RISE, by Renee Watson ON THE COME UP, by Angie Thomas WHEN I WAS THE GREATEST, by Jason Reynolds HOW HIGH THE MOON, by Karyn Parsons RIOT BABY, by Tochi Onyebuchi STAMPED, by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds BLACK ENOUGH, edited by Ibi Zoboi X: A NOVEL, by Ilyasah Sabazz and Kekla Magoon Summary of 16+ books:

BLACK GIRL UNLIMITED, by Echo Brown GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER, by QUEENIE, by Candice Carty-Williams NATIVES, by Akala BLACK AND BRITISH: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY, by David Olusoga HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST, by Adam Rutherford EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES, by Sven Lindqvist STAYING POWER, by Peter Fryer THE PLACE IS HERE, edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles BRIT(ISH), by Afua Hirsch WHY I'M NO LONGER TALKING TO WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT RACE, by Reni Eddo-Lodge FEMINISM, INTERRUPTED, by Lola Olufemi TO EXIST IS TO RESIST: BLACK FEMINISM IN EUROPE, edited by Akwugo Emejulu SLAY IN YOUR LANE, by Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke BLACK BRITISH FEMINISM: A READER, edited by Heidi Safia Mirza THE NEW JIM CROW, by Michelle Alexander CITIZEN, by Claudia Rankine BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, by Maya Angelou BECOMING, by Michelle Obama

Summary of Young Adult Black & LGBTQ+ books:

FELIX EVER AFTER, by Kacen Callender THE BLACK FLAMINGO, by Dean Atta PET, by Akwaeke Emezi ALL BOYS AREN'T BLUE, by George M. Johnson (16+) YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN, by Leah Johnson