Recommended READING & research List
Where Do We Go From Here, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Walk With The Wind, John Lewis
Long Walk For Freedom, President Nelson Mandela
History will absolve me, President Fidel Castro
Revenge, Donald Trump by Michael Cohen
All Quiet On The Western Front: A Novel, Erich Maria Ramarque
Hard Times Create Strong Men, Stefan Aamio
A Way Out Of No Way, Raphael Warnock
Former Vice President Mike Pence, So help me God
Better, Not Bitter, Yusef Salaam
American Constitutional Law, 1978, Laurence Tribe
Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography, Constance Baker Motley
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future, Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from..., Timothy Snyder
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler....,Timothy Snyder
Invisible, Stephen L. Carter
Our Malady, Timothy Snyder
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Black Jacobins, CLR James
Alabama v. King, Dan Abrams and Fred Gray
Lessons from the Edge, Marie Yovanovitch
Finding Me, Viola Davis
Torn Apart: How Child Welfare Systems Destroys Black Families, Dorothy Roberts
Fences, August Wilson
Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...."
A Profile In Courage, John F. Kennedy
Our Unfinished March, Eric Holderr Attorney General/Judge
How Ike Led, Susan Eisenhower
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization, Joe Scarborough
A Promise Land, Barack Obama
Long Time Coming, Dr. Eric Dyson
Head over Feels, Rebecca Chase
I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed The Movement, Kimberle Crenshaw
Leadership in Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Letter from Birmingham Jail, Rev.,Dr.. Martin Luther King Jr.
Walk with the wind, Civil Rights Leader and Congress Member John Lewis
Julian Bond, Member of Ga House of Representatives, Member of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Democracy: And Why It Will Fail In America, John L. Bowman
Both/And Alife in Many Worlds, Huma Abedin
The FBI Way, Frank Figliuzzi
How to Catch a Russian Spy, Naveed Jamali
Messing with the Enemy, Clint Watts
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Timothy Snyder
State of Terror, Hilary Clinton
How Civil War Start; And How to Stop Them, Barbara F. Walter
The Next Civil War, Stephen Marche-Simon& Schuster
From Cold War To Hot Peace, Michael McFaul
Entertaining Race, Michael Eric Dyson
Here, Right Matters, .Alexander Vindman, Lt. Col (Retired)
Begin Again, Eddie S. Glaude
His Truth Is Marching On, John Lewis
Bring The War Home: The White Power Movement And Paramilitary America, Kathleen Belew
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Tough Love, Susan Rice, Advisor to President Obama
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America, Al Sharpton
Finding Her Voice, Valarie Jarrett
Bag Man, Rachel Maddow
Woke Racism, John McWhorter
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Jamie Raskin
Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party And Got Everything They Wanted, Jeremy W. Peters
In Trump Time: Inside America's Plague Year, Peter Navarro
Think Again, Adam Grant
Just Us, Claudia Rankine
Betrayal: The Final Act of The Trump Show, Jonathan Karl
Peril, Woodward and Costa
Midnight in Washington, Adam Schiff
Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill
Cherry Farcial: A Ridiculously Unrealistic Attempt at Resurrecting American Literary Humor (You with the clown shoes and orange hair, Move on. There's nothing here for you...)
Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Bandy Lee
Melania ad Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
1611 KJV Bible
Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals About Him, Barbara A. Res
The Reckoning, Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever, John McWhorter
Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville
His Truth Is Marching On, John Meacham
My Days As A Radical Lawyer, William M. Hunstler
Peril, Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
American Happiness and Discontents, George F. Will
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own; Eddie S. Claude Jr.
Race, Racism and American Law, Derrick Bell
Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography Constance Baker Motley
Notorious RBG, Irin Carmon
Persist, Elizabeth Warren
How To Survive America, D.l. Hughley
While Justice Sleeps, Stacey Abrams
Race Matters, Dr. Cornel West
Little Black Sambo, Helen Bannerman
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibam X. Kendi
First Friends, Gary Ginsberg
Hard Times Create Strong Men, Stefan Aarnio
Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, And Selfishness Doomed the Coronavirus Response, Andy Slavitt
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Autobiography of Bob Marley, Greenwood Biographies
The Spook Who Sat At The Door, Sam Greenlee
Black Robes White Justice, Bruce M. Wright
The Bell Curve, Charles Murray & Richard Hernskin
Long Walk To Freedom, Nelson Mandela
The Souls of Black Folks, W.E. B. Du Bois
The Black Jacobins, C. L. R. James
History will absolve me, President Fidel Castro
Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo GaleanoI Alone Can Fix It, Carol Leonning, Phillip Rucker
How Safe Are We: Homeland Security Since 9/11, Janet Napolitano
News For All People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres
This Country: My Life in Politics and History, Chris Matthews
The Wretched Earth, Frantz Fanon, M.D.
Why Blacks Kill Blacks, Alvin Francis Poossaint, M.D.
The Isis (Yssiss) Papers, Frances L. Welsing, M.D.
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, JD, MPP
New York Times Magazine, 1619 Project (August 1619-August 2019) Nikole-Hannah Jones journalist and winner of a 2020 Pulitz Surprise for the 1619 Project
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story & Born of the Water, Nikole Hannah-Jones
Red Summer:The Summer of 1919 And The Awakening of Black America, Cameron McWhirter
Black Wall Street, LaQuitta Barnes
Bring The War Home, Kathleen Belew
Zero Fail, Carol Leonning
Landslide, Michael Wolff
Flipped, Greg Bluesstein
Why we did It, Evan Thomas
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, Carole Boston Weatherford
100% Democracy Universal Voting, E.J. Dionne & Miles Rapport
Bush on the Couch Rev Ed: Inside the Mind of the President, Justin A. Frank, M.D.
The Authoritarian Personality, Theodore W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Brunswik
Onbought and Unbossed, Shirley Chisholm
To Have & Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
Between the world, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Wave of the Future, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Miseducation of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson
Diagnostic Statistical Manual DSM-5
Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly
A Real Mother for Ya, Johnny Guitar Watson
Whitey On the Moon, Gil Scott-Heron
Native Son, Richard Wright
The Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays, Zora Neale Hurston
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
Das Kapital, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engles
Makes me Wanna Holler, Nathan McCall
The King Years, Taylor Branch
Song of America, John Meecham & Tim McGraw
Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens- Davidowitz
The Man-Not, Tommy J. Curry
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Race Relations in the United States Virgin Islands, Dr. Marilyn Krigger
Slave Society in the Danish West Indies, B.W. Higman
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and The Awakening of Black America, Cameron McWhirter
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed
Open Season, Ben Crump
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fritgerald
Winter Is Coming, Garry Kasparow
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Sallinger
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto, George Johnson
Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Go Back To Where You Came From, Wajahat Ali
Dear Martin, Nic Stone
Disloyal, Michael Cohen
The Status Seekers, Vance Packard
Black Bourgeoisie, E. Franklin Frazier
Certain People: America's Black Elite, Stephen Birmingham
Trials and Triumphs :The Long Road To Middle Class, Earle B. Ottley
Rough Riders, Teddy Roosevelt
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Cry Freedom, Steven Biko
Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
The Price of Greatness, Jay Cost
Nixon White House War, Patrick J. Buchanan
The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Sam Greenlee
The Brethren, Bob Woodward & Seth Armstrong
The Anita Bryant Story, Anita Bryant
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Down These Mean Streets, Piri Thomas
Becoming, Michelle Obama
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley & Malcolm X
Sol on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver
The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Woman, Erika Robuck
Manchild in the Promise Land, Claude Brown
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback
Elmer Gentry, Sinclair Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Revolt of the Black Athlete, Harry Edwards
The Pride of Havana: The History of Cuban Baseball, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
I Never Had It Made, Jackie Robinson
Only IF The Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All Black Professional Teams, Robert W. Peterson
Ball Four, Jim Bouton
History of Standard Oil, Ida Tarbell
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Parliament of Whores, P.J. O'Rourke
Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, John of Patmos
Fences, August Wilson
Caroline Randall Williams, author, teacher, activist and great, great granddaughter of Confederate General Edmund Pettus of the Edmund Pettus Bridge
The critical issue at hand is whether racism should be added to volume 5 of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual
"Anytime, any place is the right time and right place for anything, "Amy Goodman of Democracy Right Now
I looked and behold a pale horse; the name that sat upon him was death; and power was granted unto them to rule over a fourth part of the earth; and to kill with a sword; and with hunger and the beast of the earth!