Black Literary Resources
Poetry / novels / Biographies
Black Voices - An Anthology of African-American Literature
The Black Poets - Dudley Randall
To Be Young, Gifted and Black - Lorraine Hansberry
My Seneca Village - Marilyn Nelson
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - James Weldon Johnson
Killers of the Dream - Lillian Smith
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
ESSAYS/ Social commentaries
Race Matters - Cornel West
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
The Hip Hop Generation - Bakari Kitwana
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost - Joan Morgan
history
Little Leaders - Vashti Harrison
NPR History of Hip Hop Interviews
The Vibe History of Hip Hop - Alan Light