BOOKS

Purchasing Options: We have linked titles to Black-owned bookstores to order from, when possible. 

Borrowing Options: Check your local library system for online access.
New York Public Library - E-Book Central - Explore more than 300,000 e-books and audiobooks available to borrow for free at the NYPL. 

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own - Eddie S.  Glaude Jr. - Buy

Before Color Prejudice - Frank M. Snowden, Jr. - Buy

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - Lerone Bennett - Buy 

Black Political Power in America - Chuck Stone - Find 

Black Power and the American Myth - C.T. Vivian - Find

Black Robes, White Justice - Judge Bruce Wright - Buy

Blood in My Eye - George Jackson - Buy

Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America - Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen - Buy

Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson - Buy 

How to Be Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi - Buy

Me and White Supremacy - Layla Saad - Buy

Miseducation of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson - Buy

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire - Buy

Racism, Education, and Book List - Lisa Henry - Read

Shades of Freedom - A. Leon Higginbotham - Buy 

Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi - Buy 

Stolen Legacy - George G.M. James - Buy

The 1619 Project - Read

The History of White People - Nell Painter - Buy 

The Isis Papers - Dr. Francis Cress Welsing - Buy

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander - Buy

The Political Economy of Racism - Raymond S. Franklin, Solomon Resnick - Buy

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson - Buy

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon - Buy

This Book is AntiRacist - TiffanyJewell - Buy

Voices From the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity - edited by Marta Moreno Vega, Cheryll Y. Greene - Buy

We Got This - Cornelius Minor - Buy

What Country Have I? Political Writings by Black Americans - Herbert J. Storing - Read 

White Fragility - Robin Di Angelo - Buy

A Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Read


BRIEF READS:

Dario Calmese takes on racial bias in photography- Dario Calmese- Read

The Man Behind Critical Race Theory 2021- Jelani Cobb- Read

Jill Moniz & Deb Klowden in Conversation 2020- Read

Dismantle NOMA 2020 - Read

Horror is Different Than Terror - Lori Lobenstine - Read

In the Boardroom Where it Happens - Diane Rodriguez - Read

No Neutral Alliance - Read

Teaching Artists and Culture Shift Workers - Holly Bass - Read

The Atlantic Stories - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Read

The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture - Kenneth Jones, Tema Okun - Read

The Four “I’s” of Oppression - Read

The Work After Our Rage - Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine - Read

We must end ‘qualified immunity’ for police. It might save the next George Floyd - Killer Mike - Read

When Black Women Go From Office Pet To Office Threat - Erika Stallings - Read

You Do Not Ever Have to Share Video of a Cop Lynching... - Michael Harriott - Read


We encourage you to form a reading group with 2-10+ friends, and commit to meet regularly to go through these materials together. Here are examples of articles that illustrate the reading group model.

Have a resource you’d like to recommend? Reach out to us at wearetheblacksmiths@gmail.com with the subject line “Resource Toolkit Suggestions”