Centering Black Stories
Centering Black Stories
We are making a commitment to decenter whiteness, and decolonize the ways in which our country has rooted its systems, in order to amplify Black voices and stories. We offer the reading list below as part of our commitment to tell, honor and center the stories of Black and African American people. Black Lives Matter.
The Hate U Give by Angi Thomas
March: Book Three by John Lewis
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers
Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
A Poem for Peter by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson
Firebird by Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Lillian’s Right to Vote by Jonah Winter
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Story Of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by James Ransome
We Troubled the Waters by Ntozake Shange
White Flour by David LaMotte