Black Biographies, Memoirs, Musings, and Personal Narratives:

Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin

Killing Rage: Ending Racism, by bell hooks

Zami - A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography, by Audre Lorde

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah

Becoming, by Michelle Obama

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics, by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama

Real American: A Memoir, by Julie Lythcott-Haims

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, by Maya Angelou

How We Fight For Our Lives, by Saeed Jones

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America, by Keisha N. Blain

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

A Revolutionary For Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story, by Leo Zeilig

Angela Davis: An Autobiography, by Angela Y. Davis

Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to Change the World, by Patrick Hutchinson

I'm Tired of Racism: True Stories of Existing While Black, by Sharon Hurley Hall

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib

I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé, by Michael Arceneaux

I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays, by Michael Arceneaux

Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition, by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, by Charles M Blow

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, by Emily Bernard

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why We Can't Wait, by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Black Indian, A Memoir, by Shonda Buchanan

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele

This Is Not for You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience, by Richard Brown with Brian Benson

We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, by Jabari Asim

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

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, by Uche Blackstock, MD

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave, by Zora Neale Hurston

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, by Joy-Ann Reid

Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future, by Joél Leon

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope, by Shayla Lawson

Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America, by Kim McLarin

Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It, by Lester Fabian Brathwaite

Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration, by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

Lovely One: A Memoir, by Ketanji Brown Jackson

You Get What You Pay For: Essays, by Morgan Parker

Cuz: An American Tragedy, by Danielle Allen

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