The Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge - hosted by emilyhays

A book by a revolutionary, community activist, political organizer or abolitionist
All books added
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Bettina L. Love

200 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education politics race emotional reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

5 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams

While Justice Sleeps

Avery Keene #1

Stacey Abrams

592 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction thriller mysterious tense medium-paced
This Is My America by Kim Johnson

This Is My America

Kim Johnson

416 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary young adult challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
1919 by Eve L. Ewing

1919

Eve L. Ewing

2 hours • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history poetry race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

192 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

11 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Robyn Maynard

12 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

190 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced