Books You Should Read About Black Lives

1. Something has to change in USA.
2. Racism isn’t worse…it is just getting filmed!
3. I can only start to understand what has to change
4. …by reading.
5. Never stop learning because life never stops teaching.
   
6. Books about Black Lives.
7. Here is the list
8. ….if you are interested, good suggestions for a book club?
9. If you’re reeling from the news and want to do something,
10. deepening your understanding of racism and the black experience
11. in America is one way to start.
12. Check out the books below, which range from established classics
13. to newer works and include memoirs, practical guides
14. to talking about race, in-depth reporting on police brutality,
15. and groundbreaking works of inter sectional feminist theor
16. UPDATE: 11.06.2020.     America is reading again…TOP  10 bestsellers

UPDATE: 26.09.2020  

1. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson – Review
2. Just Us – C. Rankine – Review
3. The Fire This Time – editor Jesmyn Ward
4. The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander – Review
   
5. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates – Review
6. The Hate Race– Maxine Beneba Clark  Review
   
7. The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin  Review
8. Brit(ish) – Afua Hirsh – Review
9. Tears We Cannot Stop – M. Dyson – Review
10. Blood in the Water – Heather Thompson (Pulitzer Prize 2017) – Review
11. Stamped From the Beginning – I.X. Kendi (National Book Award 2016) – Review
12. Ghettoside – Jill Levoy – Review
13. The New Testament – Jericho Brown (excellent poems!!) – Review
14. Democracy In Black – E.S. Glaude jr. – Review
15. My Vanishing Country – B. Sellers (2020) – Review
16. How to Be an Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi – Review
    
17. Brown is The New White – Steve Phillips – Review
18. My Vanishing Country – B. Sellers (2020) – Review
19. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – D. Blight – Review
20. Thick – Tessie Cottom – Review
21. Heavy – Kiese Laymon – Review
22. We Live for the We – D. McClain – Review

TBR:

1. Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Y. Davis
2. The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison – R. Ellison
3. Citizen: An American Lyric  – Claudia Rankine
4. Black Feminist Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
5. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
6. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
   
7. They Can’t Kill Us All – Wesley Lowery
8. So You Want to Talk About Race –  Ijeoma Oluo
9. Their Eyes Are Watching – Zora N. Hurston
10. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
11. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo