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Read in 2020:
* Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
* We Are Called to Be a Movement
* White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
* Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
* The Insightful Reader
* Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
* The Cross and the Lynching Tree
* "The 1619 Project" | The New York Times Magazine, 18 August 2019
* Know Your Price
* Zora and Langston
* The Other Madisons
* Powershift
* A Perilous Path
* The Sword and the Shield
* Presumed Criminal
* Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
* On The Courthouse Lawn
* First Martyr of Liberty
* One Person, No Vote
* The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
Read in 2019 (25 books):
* Blood Brothers
* How To Be An AntiRacist
* Just Mercy
* We Are The Change We Seek
* Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
* Through My Eyes
* Faces at the Bottom of the Well
* Sweat the Technique
* The Water Dancer
* Between the World and Me
* The Pearl
* Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
* We Speak for Ourselves
* The Autobiography of Malcom X
* Red Summer
* Lead From the Outside
* Photography on the Color Line
* A Small Nation of People
* What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
* Stony The Road
* From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo
* Heavy
* Gospel of Freedom
* We Were Eight Years in Power
* The Birth of a Nation
Read in 2018 (16 books):
* The Color of Law
* Take You Wherever You Go
* Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching
* The Case for Reparations (The Atlantic, June '14, Ta-Nehisi Coates)
* If Beale Street Could Talk
* Looking for Lorraine
* Chokehold: Policing Black Men
* The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
* What Truth Sounds Like
* A More Beautiful and Terrible History
* King Hedley II
* Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace
* Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
* The Blood of Emmett Till
* Never Caught: The Washingtons'...Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave
* The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Read in 2017 (4 books):
* Heart of Darkness
* I Am Not Your Negro
* Tears We Cannot Stop
* Miles: The Autobiography
Read in 2016 (10 books):
* Blues for an Alabama Sky
* The Family Tree
* Fences
* A Black Man in the White House
* Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable...
* Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race...
* Brown Is the New White
* Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
* Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
* Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Read in 2015 (15 books):
* The Coming
* Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
* Under the Affluence
* Beasts of No Nation: A Novel
* Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading and Succeeding
* The Warren Buffett Way
* The Millionaire Next Door:
* Between the World and Me
* The Radical King
* Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
* A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
* Winning The Long Game
* The King Years
* Stokely: A Life
* Checkmate!: My First Chess Book
Read in 2014 (22 books):
* Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
* Black Prophetic Fire
* In Peace and Freedom: My Journey In Selma
* Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition
* Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
* Death Of A King
* Tomlinson Hill
* Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
* Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man
* The Harlem Hellfighters
* In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
* The Known World: A Novel
* Burning Uncle Tom's Cabin
* Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
* The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois
* Saving The Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights
* Work 2.0: Nowhere to hide
* The Second Machine Age
* Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
* Focus: Use Differernt Ways of Seeing...
* Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
* Twelve Years A Slave
Read in 2013 (11 books):
* The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963
* The Black Count
* Slavery By Another Name
* The Warmth of Other Suns
* The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
* Denmark Vesey
* Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
* BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
* the personal MBA: master the art of business
* Two Trains Running
* A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Read in 2012 (10 books):
* Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
* The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
* Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
* Frederick Douglass and The Fourth of July
* The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
* Agile Project Management for Dummies
* The Substance of Hope
* The Future Of The Race
* The Talented Tenth (Illustrated)
(essay, 1903)* Freedom Riders
Read in 2011 (10 books):
* The Miseducation of the Negro
* Linchpin: Are You Indispensible
* The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage
* Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement
* What Virtue There Is In Fire
* The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
* Crucial Conversations
* Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
* The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
* Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud
Read in 2010 (14 books):
* Metamorphosis
* Black Faces in White Places
* The Heroic Slave
* A Home Elsewhere
* Dreams from my Father
* Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
* Cognitive Surplus
* The Other Wes Moore
* Managing Agile Projects
* Dark Days, Bright Nights
* David Walker's Appeal
* Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
* The Design of Everyday Things
* Invisible Man
Read in 2009 (3 books):
* Democracy Matters
* The Tipping Point
* Avoiding Legal Liability
Read in 2008 (10 books):
* The Measure of a Man
* Up From Slavery
* The Souls of Black Folk
* Native Son
* Truth and Consequences
* The Piano Lesson
* The Envy of the World
* The Fire Next Time
* Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
* Can a Catholic Support Him?
Read in 2007 (2 books):
* The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
* A Raisin in the Sun
Read in 2006 (4 books):
* Say It Plain
* The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass
* Covenant with Black America
* The Audacity of Hope
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