VJN Equip: Recommended Reads for Black History Month 2021 #BHM
VJN coach Stephanie Snow shares her must reads:
“Black History Month 2021 is here and, although I have always loved reading about and celebrating Black history and culture, this year it feels especially crucial to do so. Here are a few of my book recommendations for this month.”
- Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
- Why We Can’t Wait, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, Natalie Y. Moore
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
- Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Negroland, A Memoir, Margo Jefferson