Resources
While on the road, I've chosen to read a chapter each day from the legendary scholar and prolific author from the reconstruction period that followed the Civil War, W.E.B. Du Bois. His lyrical style and powerful narrative are both inspiring and compelling.
Books that inform and inspire.
Here are some of the books I've read these past few years that, in retrospect, prompted me to sign up for the Tour.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America, Tim Wise
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis
The End of White Christian America, Robert Jones
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, Corey Booker
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, Michael Eric Dyson
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America, Eugene Robinson
Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power, Ronald V. Dellums
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Andrew Hartman
Prejudice Across America, James Waller
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Diane McWhorter
Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America, Michael Eric Dyson
The Autobiography of Malcom X, Alex Haley