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

A book by a revolutionary, community activist, political organizer or abolitionist
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur

The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Tupac Shakur

176 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction music poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Morgan Jerkins

8 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Alicia Garza

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

Tiffany Jewell

160 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history race young adult informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

374 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

448 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

Emergent Strategy #3

adrienne maree brown

88 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Abolitionist Papers

Mariame Kaba

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategy #0

adrienne maree brown

280 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics informative reflective slow-paced