Recommended Media

The NAACP’s principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes. Here are some sources of information on the issues.

Adult Books About Oppression

1.  The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

2.  White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People

3.   Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

 4.  Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson

 5.  The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

 6.  The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

 7.  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

8.  How To Be an Antiracist by lbram X. Kendi

 9.  Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

 10.   Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by lbram X. Kendi

 11.  Sister Outsider by Audre Larde

 12.  The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

 13.  The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose by Chris Wilson

 14.   Washington Black: by Esi Edugyan

 15.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

 16.   Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 17.   Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

18.  The Sun Does Shine: How I found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

19.  So You Want to Talk About Race by Jeoma Oluo

 20.  Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane

 21. The African Presence in Ancient America They Came.Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima

 22. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

 23.  Africa and the Discovery of America by Leo Wiener 1920

 24. The African Origin of Civilization Myth or Reality by Cheikh Ania Diom

Source: New York Times