In honor of Black History Month, the Voice of Witness team has put together a list of 10 must-read books by Black authors. The list includes a mix of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction (including oral history).
1.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
2.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
4.
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
5.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
6.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
7.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
8.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
9.
High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing edited by Audrey Petty
10.
