29 Banned/Challenged Books and the Black Women Who Wrote Them
Happy Black History Month, y'all! Each year during BHM I take a moment each day to highlight an incredible Black woman. (Can you believe I've been doing this for seven years??)
I encourage you to consider adding these to your list of books to read! If you've already read any of them, I encourage you to share what you thought in the comments.
I’m updating this list daily, so come back to see who’s on the list!
Maya Angelou - “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Toni Morrison - “Beloved”
Nikole Hannah-Jones - “The 1619 Project”
Alice Walker - “The Color Purple”
Zora Neale Hurston - “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
bell hooks - “Black Looks: Race and Representation”
Tiffany D. Jackson - “Monday’s Not Coming”
Lupita Nyong’o - “Sulwe”
Mikki Kendall - “Hood Feminism”
Michelle Alexander - “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
Jewell Parker Rhodes - “Ghost Boy”
Brandy Colbert - "Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre"
Jacqueline Woodson - “Brown Girl Dreaming”
Angie Thomas - “The Hate U Give”
Mildred D. Taylor - “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”
Sharon G. Flake - “The Skin I’m In”
Isabel Wilkerson - "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"
Octavia Butler - “Kindred”
Ruby Bridges - “This is Your Time”
Sapphire - “Push”
Amanda Gorman - “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country”
Phillis Wheatley - “Being Brought from Africa to America”
Junauda Petrus - “The Stars and the Blackness Between Them”
René Watson - “Watch Us Rise”
Elizabeth Acevedo - “Clap When You Land”
Kim Johnson - “This Is My America”
Kalynn Bayron - “Cinderella Is Dead”
Lorraine Hansberry - “A Raisin in the Sun”
Margot Lee Shetterly - “Hidden Figures”