Recommended Reading

The Public’s List of Recommended Reading, Viewing, and Listening

Books

The Color of Compromise – Jemar Tisby
Divided by Faith – Michael O. Emerson
White Awake – Daniel Hill
Woke Church – Eric Mason
White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
Many Colors – Soong Chang Rah
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi
How to be an Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
Oneness Embraced – Tony Evans
Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church - Mark DeYmaz
Letters to a Birmingham Jail – Bryan Loritts
A Narrative of the Life of Sojourner Truth – Sojourner Truth
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois
Up From Slavery – Booker T. Washington
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes – Langston Hughes
Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights – Langston Hughes
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin (novel)
Native Son – James Baldwin
The Children – David Halberstam – my favorite book the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on the movement in Nashville.
Why We Can’t Wait – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Letter From a Birmingham Jail” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years – Taylor Branch
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron – Howard Bryant
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley – Alex Haley
The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein – a book about red lining
Give Us the Ballot – Ari Berman – a book about modern day voter suppression
We Were Eight Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dreams of My Father – Barack Obama
Becoming – Michelle Obama
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama – David Garrow
Race Matters – Cornel West
God With Us: Lived Theology and the Freedom Struggle in Americus, Georgia – Ansley L. Quiros
March – John Lewis – a graphic novel on the life of John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement

Documentaries

“Eyes on the Prize” – Civil Rights Movement
“I Am Not Your Negro” – about James Baldwin
“13th” – directed by Ava DuVernay about mass incarceration and voter suppression
“Jazz” – Ken Burns
“Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” – Henry Louis Gates

Podcasts

Pass the Mic
Truth’s Table