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