This is a reading list to keep you informed and educated! Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center recommends that everyone educates themselves on social justice issues. Don’t ever stop keeping informed and share this list of reading materials on your social media.
SPLC Report
Published by Southern Poverty Law Center
NewYorkTimes.com/racerelated
Current articles that are race related
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran
Race Matters
by Cornell West
Ain’t I A Woman
Black Women and Feminism
by Bell Hooks
The Souls Of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Selected Poems
by Langston Hughes
John Brown
Abolitionist
The Man who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
By David S. Reynolds
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
The Long Road From Slavery To Mental Illness
by Calvin Thomas
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
and The Color Purple
by Alica Walker
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Go Tell It On The Mountain
by James Baldwin
The American Millstone
an examination of the nation’s permanet underclass
by Chicago Tribune
to the people of North Lawndale
