Black Lives, Black Stories for Adults
Glendale Library, Arts & Culture staff has developed reading lists that provide further education about the Black experience and how we can work together to create a more just society. The list is arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name. It is being continuously updated.
Click on the book cover to access the library’s copy of each title.
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
[Book]
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael by Stokely Carmichael
[Book]
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
[eAudio]
The Novels of Samuel R. Delany : Babel-17, Nova, and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
by Samuel R. Delany
[eBook]
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
[Book]
W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
By W.E.B. Du Bois
[Book]
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas by Sam Durant (ed.)
[Book]
How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
By Crystal Marie Fleming
[eBook]
The Annotated African American Folktales
edited with a foreword, introduction, and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar
[Book]
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni
[Book]
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By Richard Rothstein
[eBook]
For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem
by Ntozake Shange
[Book]
Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
[eBook]
