Suggested Reading

Reading is a great way to expand your awareness. Here are some of the Boost! staff favorites. To continue your exploration of and investment in the West Oakland community, consider checking out these books at the West Oakland Branch of the Oakland Public library, located just three blocks from Lafayette Elementary. 

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain by Aaron Dixon

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (YA Fiction) by Erika Sánchez 

• Assata by Assata Shakur

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Websites to bookmark:

• Colorlines.com 

• SF Bayview (National Black Newspaper)

• Rethinking Schools