Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
This novel was the breakout work of Toni Morrison and earned her not only the National Book Critics Award, but a Nobel Prize in Literature, as well. Acclaimed as one of the top 25 novels of the 20th century, it features a colorful cast of personalities surrounding one Macon “Milkman” Dead III.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
With the observant eye and ear of an anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston paints the life and times of Black people settling in Central Florida to carve out a place for themselves and their ambitions, while catching love and romance where they can. The storms of life and nature blow strong in this classic.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Fleeing oppression and chasing opportunity, millions of African-Americans left the Deep South and forever changed the urban landscapes of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, etc … as well as the Southern culture and kin they left behind.
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
The problem of the 20th century continues to be the same problem of the 21st … the color line. This is a collection of essays that gives insight into the social, racial, economic and political pressures on African Americans at the turn of the century and they are still relevant today.
The Wretched of The Earth
Frantz Fanon
Colonization and imperialism not only devastated lands, they devastated minds, as well. In this work, Fanon demonstrates his keen analysis of the havoc wreaked by the colonizer on the colonized and proposes actionable strategies for overcoming it.
