Chuck’s Reading List: Recommended Books & Authors from Executive Director Chuck Jackson
Find many of these books at the DC Public Library and in other area library systems.
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Books by bell hooks, an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist.
Books by Toni Morrison, an American novelist and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and a Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde
Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Sonja Cherry-Paul, Jason Reynolds, and Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi