This suggested reading list is intended to give a general overview of books that may provide more insight on themes discussed at many of our events. It is a combination of political, social, economic, philosophical, spiritual, and cultural works. We have missed some important books for sure but this is a start in the right direction. We hope you find it useful. Some book titles have been abbreviated.
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| A Burst of Light | Audre Lorde |
| A People's History of the U.S. | Howard Zinn |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| A Testament of Hope | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| African World Revolution | John Henrik Clarke |
| Always Outnumbered | Walter Mosley |
| Artists in Times of War | Howard Zinn |
| Assata: An Autobiography | Assata Shakur |
| Autobiography of Malcolm X, The | Malcolm X |
| Before the Mayflower | Lerone Jr. Bennett |
| Beyond The Down Low | Keith Boykin |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Black Girls Learn Love Hard | Ras Baraka |
| Blues People | LeRoi Jones |
| Bluest Eye, The | Toni Morrison |
| Coal | Audre Lorde |
| Coldest Winter Ever, The | Sister Souljah |
| Color Purple, The | Alice Walker |
| Conscious Evolution | Barbara Marx Hubbard |
| Conversations with God | Neale Donald Walsh |
| Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, The | Harold Cruse |
| Death of Rhythm and Blues | Nelson George |
| Destruction of Black Civilization, The | Chancellor Williams |
| Does Your House Have Lions | Sonia Sanchez |
| Down These Mean Streets | Piri Thomas |
| Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader | Wm. Jelani Cobb |
| Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness | Amos N. Wilson |
| Fire Next Time, The | James Baldwin |
| For Colored Girls | Ntozake Shange |
| Four Agreements, The | Don Miguel Ruiz |
| From Columbus to Castro | Eric Williams |
| Ghana, The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Healing Wisdom of Africa | Malidoma Patrice Some |
| Hip Hop America | Nelson George |
| In the Meantime | Iyanla Vanzant |
| Inner-Course | Toni Blackman |
| Isis (Yssis) Papers, The | Dr. Frances C. Welsing |
| Keeping It Real | Kevin Powell |
| Killing Rage: Ending Racism | bell hooks |
| Langston Hughes Anthology | Langston Huges |
| Love Is Hard Work | Miguel Algarin |
| Mad at Miles | Pearl Cleage |
| Makes Me Wanna Holla | Nathan McCall |
| Manufacturing Consent | Noam Chomsky |
| No Good Nigg@ Bluez | Jerome Jones, Mo Beasley |
| Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire |
| Rich Dad, Poor Dad | Robert Kiyosaki |
| Shake Loose My Skin | Sonia Sanchez |
| Sisters of the Yam | Sisters of the Yam |
| Soledad Brother | George Jackson |
| Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B DuBois |
| Spirit of a Man, The | Iyanla Vanzant |
| Stand Up and Deliver | Yvonne Bynoe |
| Strangers from a Different Shore | Ronald Takaki |
| The Alphabet versus The Ghetto | Jessica Care moore-Poole |
| The Artists’ Way | Julia Cameron |
| The Black Woman: An Anthology | Toni Cade Bambara |
| The Choice | Samuel F. Yette |
| The Hip Hop Generation | Bakari Kitwana |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Toms, Coons, Mulattoes.. | Donald Bogle |
| True Believer | Eric Hoffer |
| When and Where I Enter | Paula Giddings |
| When Chickenheads… | Joan Morgan |
| Who’s Gonna Take The Weight? | Kevin Powell |
| Wise Why’s Y’s | Amiri Baraka |
| Women, Race, and Class | Angela Y. Davis |
| Wretched of the Earth, The | Frantz Fanon |
| World on Fire | Amy Chua |
| World Poetry Anthology | Washburn, Major, and Fadiman |