Viola Davis: Finding Me by Viola Davis
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song edited by Kevin Young
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Walking in My Joy in These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem by April Ryan
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverman
The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston
Ida B. The Queen by Michelle Duster and Hannah Giorgis
Cicely Tyson: Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill