Black Resilience Books | Summaries & Audio

You Are Your Best Thing

by Tarana Burke • 2021

Shame, vulnerability, and resilience, reframed by Black voices who live the extra weight of racism.

4.51

8k+

🛡️ Shame Resilience ✊🏾 Black Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma

You Are Your Best Thing 91%

Shame, vulnerability, and resilience, reframed by Black voices who live the extra weight of racism.

by Tarana Burke 2021

4.51

8k+ ratings

🛡️ Shame Resilience ✊🏾 Black Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma

Everything and Nothing at Once

by Joel Leon • 2024

Black men don't get to be ordinary. One memoirist fights for the right to simply be.

4.32

158

✊🏿 Black Masculinity 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📝 Memoir Essays

Everything and Nothing at Once 91%

Black men don't get to be ordinary. One memoirist fights for the right to simply be.

by Joel Leon 2024

4.32

158 ratings

✊🏿 Black Masculinity 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📝 Memoir Essays

I'm Still Here

by Austin Channing Brown • 2018

Growing up Black in white America means learning to manage everyone else's feelings before your own.

4.37

74k+

🌐 Everyday Racism 🧭 Navigating Whiteness 🔥 Righteous Anger

I'm Still Here 90%

Growing up Black in white America means learning to manage everyone else's feelings before your own.

by Austin Channing Brown 2018

4.37

74k+ ratings

🌐 Everyday Racism 🧭 Navigating Whiteness 🔥 Righteous Anger

A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry • 2020

The Black women who built America: their four-century story, from freedom before 1619 to now.

4.29

4k+

🖤 Black Women'S History 🇺🇸 African American History 📜 Hidden Histories

A Black Women's History of the United States Summary

A Black Women's History of the United States 90%

The Black women who built America: their four-century story, from freedom before 1619 to now.

by Daina Ramey Berry 2020

4.29

4k+ ratings

🖤 Black Women'S History 🇺🇸 African American History 📜 Hidden Histories

Black Magic

by Chad Sanders • 2021

Racism taught these Black leaders skills no business school could, and they're sharing the playbook.

4.34

491

👤 Black Leadership 🏢 Corporate Diversity 🔄 Code-Switching

Black Magic 89%

Racism taught these Black leaders skills no business school could, and they're sharing the playbook.

by Chad Sanders 2021

4.34

491 ratings

👤 Black Leadership 🏢 Corporate Diversity 🔄 Code-Switching

Revolutionary Suicide

by Huey P. Newton • 1973

Some deaths surrender dignity. He risked one that refused to let the state take his.

4.49

7k+

✍️ Radical Memoir ✊ Black Power Movement 🔫 Armed Self-Defense

Revolutionary Suicide 89%

Some deaths surrender dignity. He risked one that refused to let the state take his.

by Huey P. Newton 1973

4.49

7k+ ratings

✍️ Radical Memoir ✊ Black Power Movement 🔫 Armed Self-Defense

Warriors Don't Cry

by Melba Pattillo Beals • 1994

Acid in her eyes, threats at every turn: a 15-year-old's year integrating an Arkansas high school.

4.18

16k+

✊ Civil Rights Movement 🏫 School Desegregation 🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance

Warriors Don't Cry 89%

Acid in her eyes, threats at every turn: a 15-year-old's year integrating an Arkansas high school.

by Melba Pattillo Beals 1994

4.18

16k+ ratings

✊ Civil Rights Movement 🏫 School Desegregation 🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance

Black Power

by Stokely Carmichael • 1967

Racism isn't prejudice. It's a colonial system, and the only cure is politics by the colonized.

4.37

2k+

🖤 Black Radicalism 🌍 Anti-Colonial Thought ✊ Community Organizing

Black Power 89%

Racism isn't prejudice. It's a colonial system, and the only cure is politics by the colonized.

by Stokely Carmichael 1967

4.37

2k+ ratings

🖤 Black Radicalism 🌍 Anti-Colonial Thought ✊ Community Organizing

The Heart of a Woman

by Maya Angelou • 2009

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

4.23

25k+

🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood

The Heart of a Woman 89%

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

by Maya Angelou 2009

4.23

25k+ ratings

🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood

My Love Story

by Tina Turner • 2018

She escaped her first husband with 36 cents. Her second husband gave her a kidney.

4.18

10k+

🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎵 R&B Legends 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

My Love Story 89%

She escaped her first husband with 36 cents. Her second husband gave her a kidney.

by Tina Turner 2018

4.18

10k+ ratings

🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎵 R&B Legends 🛡️ Surviving Abuse

Black AF History

by Michael Harriot • 2023

Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.

4.60

10k+

🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History

Black AF History 89%

Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.

by Michael Harriot 2023

4.60

10k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History

My Beautiful Black Hair

by St. Clair Detrick-Jules • 2021

101 Black women on freeing their natural hair and finding their true selves underneath.

4.73

🌀 Natural Hair Movement 👸🏿 Black Beauty Standards 💖 Self-Love Journey

My Beautiful Black Hair 89%

101 Black women on freeing their natural hair and finding their true selves underneath.

by St. Clair Detrick-Jules 2021

4.73

60 ratings

🌀 Natural Hair Movement 👸🏿 Black Beauty Standards 💖 Self-Love Journey

Black Woman Redefined

by Sophia A. Nelson • 2011

Break the stereotypes: a Black woman's guide to fulfillment in love, work, and spirit.

3.74

187

👩🏿 Black Womanhood ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🔨 Breaking Stereotypes

Black Woman Redefined 89%

Break the stereotypes: a Black woman's guide to fulfillment in love, work, and spirit.

by Sophia A. Nelson 2011

3.74

187 ratings

👩🏿 Black Womanhood ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🔨 Breaking Stereotypes

The Black Imagination

by Sandra Jackson • 2010

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

4.33

🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction

The Black Imagination 89%

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

by Sandra Jackson 2010

4.33

12 ratings

🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction

Hood Feminism

by Mikki Kendall • 2020

The feminism that fights for the corner office ignores women who can't afford lunch. Their agenda.

4.35

64k+

🖤 Black Feminism 🍲 Food Insecurity ⚖️ Reproductive Justice

Hood Feminism 89%

The feminism that fights for the corner office ignores women who can't afford lunch. Their agenda.

by Mikki Kendall 2020

4.35

64k+ ratings

🖤 Black Feminism 🍲 Food Insecurity ⚖️ Reproductive Justice

The Black Messiah

by Albert B. Cleage Jr. • 1989

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

4.35

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique

The Black Messiah 89%

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

by Albert B. Cleage Jr. 1989

4.35

17 ratings

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique

The Next Big Story

by Soledad O'Brien • 2010

From Little Rock to Katrina to Haiti, a multiracial reporter keeps showing up where America breaks.

3.70

239

📺 Broadcast Journalism 🧬 Multiracial Identity 🗽 Race In America

The Next Big Story 89%

From Little Rock to Katrina to Haiti, a multiracial reporter keeps showing up where America breaks.

by Soledad O'Brien 2010

3.70

239 ratings

📺 Broadcast Journalism 🧬 Multiracial Identity 🗽 Race In America

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter G. Woodson • 1933

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

4.49

10k+

🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression

The Mis-Education of the Negro 89%

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

by Carter G. Woodson 1933

4.49

10k+ ratings

🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression

Never Far from Home

by Bruce Jackson • 2023

Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.

4.12

257

🪜 Upward Mobility 🚧 Racial Barriers 🎓 First-Gen Professionals

Never Far from Home 89%

Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.

by Bruce Jackson 2023

4.12

257 ratings

🪜 Upward Mobility 🚧 Racial Barriers 🎓 First-Gen Professionals

The Development Psychology of the Black Child

by Amos N. Wilson • 1978

Black infants outpace white infants on every measure. Then racism becomes neurological.

4.61

🧠 Black Psychology 👶 Child Development 🪞 Racial Identity

The Development Psychology of the Black Child Summary

The Development Psychology of the Black Child 89%

Black infants outpace white infants on every measure. Then racism becomes neurological.

by Amos N. Wilson 1978

4.61

89 ratings

🧠 Black Psychology 👶 Child Development 🪞 Racial Identity

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

by Rheeda Walker • 2020

Racism sabotages your mind and body. Build an active mental shield that actually works.

4.24

720

🧠 Black Mental Health 💔 Racial Trauma 🧘🏾 Mind-Body Wellness

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health Summary

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health 89%

Racism sabotages your mind and body. Build an active mental shield that actually works.

by Rheeda Walker 2020

4.24

720 ratings

🧠 Black Mental Health 💔 Racial Trauma 🧘🏾 Mind-Body Wellness

Value in the Valley

by Iylanla Vanzant • 1995

Hard seasons are not punishment but curriculum. For Black women navigating the valley.

4.44

789

🌿 Spiritual Self-Help 🌱 Adversity As Teacher 🚧 Emotional Boundaries

Value in the Valley 89%

Hard seasons are not punishment but curriculum. For Black women navigating the valley.

by Iylanla Vanzant 1995

4.44

789 ratings

🌿 Spiritual Self-Help 🌱 Adversity As Teacher 🚧 Emotional Boundaries

Capitalist Nigger

by Chika A. Onyeani • 2000

Economic dependency is the new slavery. The cure: become the kind of predator capitalism rewards.

3.59

477

🧱 Black Conservatism 🔗 Racial Capitalism 🌍 Postcolonial Economics

Capitalist Nigger 89%

Economic dependency is the new slavery. The cure: become the kind of predator capitalism rewards.

by Chika A. Onyeani 2000

3.59

477 ratings

🧱 Black Conservatism 🔗 Racial Capitalism 🌍 Postcolonial Economics

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

by Joy DeGruy Leary • 2005

Slavery's deepest wound: a psychological syndrome inherited across generations, unnamed until now.

4.49

2k+

🧬 Transgenerational Trauma 🩸 Racial Trauma 🧠 Black Psychology

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome 89%

Slavery's deepest wound: a psychological syndrome inherited across generations, unnamed until now.

by Joy DeGruy Leary 2005

4.49

2k+ ratings

🧬 Transgenerational Trauma 🩸 Racial Trauma 🧠 Black Psychology

Make Your Way Home

by Carrie R. Moore • 2025

From Florida marshes to Appalachia, Black lives searching for a home that trauma can't touch.

3.94

274

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 🫀 Embodied Trauma

Make Your Way Home 89%

From Florida marshes to Appalachia, Black lives searching for a home that trauma can't touch.

by Carrie R. Moore 2025

3.94

274 ratings

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 🫀 Embodied Trauma

Freedom Farmers

by Monica M. White • 2018

How Black farmers built cooperative freedom, from Reconstruction fields to Detroit’s urban farms.

4.36

404

🌱 Black Agriculture 🥗 Food Sovereignty 🤝 Cooperative Economics

Freedom Farmers 89%

How Black farmers built cooperative freedom, from Reconstruction fields to Detroit’s urban farms.

by Monica M. White 2018

4.36

404 ratings

🌱 Black Agriculture 🥗 Food Sovereignty 🤝 Cooperative Economics

Rest Is Resistance

by Tricia Hersey • 2022

Reclaim your body, your imagination, and your time through rest as a political act.

4.04

13k+

✊🏾 Black Liberation 💰🚫 Anti-Capitalist Thought ⚙️ Grind Culture Critique

Rest Is Resistance 89%

Reclaim your body, your imagination, and your time through rest as a political act.

by Tricia Hersey 2022

4.04

13k+ ratings

✊🏾 Black Liberation 💰🚫 Anti-Capitalist Thought ⚙️ Grind Culture Critique

Black in Blues

by Imani Perry • 2025

Indigo was traded for human life. How blue became the keeper of Black grief, art, and survival.

4.25

3k+

📖 African American History 📚 Black Cultural Criticism 🔵 Cultural History Of Color

Black in Blues 89%

Indigo was traded for human life. How blue became the keeper of Black grief, art, and survival.

by Imani Perry 2025

4.25

3k+ ratings

📖 African American History 📚 Black Cultural Criticism 🔵 Cultural History Of Color

Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men

by Nicholas Grier • 2019

Feared and devalued daily, Black men need a framework for healing through spirit and community.

4.67

🖤 Black Men'S Wellness 🫂 Community Healing 🙏 Spiritual Resilience

Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men Summary

Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men 89%

Feared and devalued daily, Black men need a framework for healing through spirit and community.

by Nicholas Grier 2019

4.67

3 ratings

🖤 Black Men'S Wellness 🫂 Community Healing 🙏 Spiritual Resilience

Eloquent Rage

by Brittney Cooper • 2018

Black women's rage isn't irrational. It's the most precise response to systemic disrespect.

4.38

14k+

🖤 Black Feminism 👔 Respectability Politics 🔥 Political Anger

Eloquent Rage 89%

Black women's rage isn't irrational. It's the most precise response to systemic disrespect.

by Brittney Cooper 2018

4.38

14k+ ratings

🖤 Black Feminism 👔 Respectability Politics 🔥 Political Anger

A Nation Under Our Feet

by Steven Hahn • 2003

Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.

4.11

958

🗳️ Reconstruction Era 🌾 Southern History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing

A Nation Under Our Feet 89%

Enslaved people built a political world in secret. It outlasted slavery and reshaped the South.

by Steven Hahn 2003

4.11

958 ratings

🗳️ Reconstruction Era 🌾 Southern History 🌱 Grassroots Organizing

Well-Read Black Girl

by Glory Edim • 2018

Black women's literary lineage: how the books we inherit shape the selves we build.

4.36

7k+

🖤 Black Feminism 👭 Literary Sisterhood 📖 Reading And Identity

Well-Read Black Girl 89%

Black women's literary lineage: how the books we inherit shape the selves we build.

by Glory Edim 2018

4.36

7k+ ratings

🖤 Black Feminism 👭 Literary Sisterhood 📖 Reading And Identity

The Beautiful Struggle

by Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

4.08

11k+

🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs

The Beautiful Struggle 89%

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008

4.08

11k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs

The Light We Carry

by Michelle Obama • 2022

When the world feels too big, shrink it: resilience lessons from a former First Lady.

4.27

100k+

📖 Political Memoirs 🌱 Everyday Resilience 💛 Vulnerability

The Light We Carry 89%

When the world feels too big, shrink it: resilience lessons from a former First Lady.

by Michelle Obama 2022

4.27

100k+ ratings

📖 Political Memoirs 🌱 Everyday Resilience 💛 Vulnerability

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2015

America's myth of innocence is built on Black bodies. A father writes his son.

4.40

370k+

🧱 Systemic Racism 🩸 Racial Violence 🛑 Police Brutality

Between the World and Me 89%

America's myth of innocence is built on Black bodies. A father writes his son.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015

4.40

370k+ ratings

🧱 Systemic Racism 🩸 Racial Violence 🛑 Police Brutality

Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)]

by Lawrence W. Levine • 1977

White listeners heard contentment in the spirituals. They missed the coded defiance entirely.

4.21

470

🧵 African American Folklore 🎶 Spirituals And Gospel 🎸 Blues History

Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)] Summary

Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)] 89%

White listeners heard contentment in the spirituals. They missed the coded defiance entirely.

by Lawrence W. Levine 1977

4.21

470 ratings

🧵 African American Folklore 🎶 Spirituals And Gospel 🎸 Blues History

The Black Woman

by Toni Cade Bambara • 1970

The 1970 anthology that told white feminists they were bourgeois and Black Power it was sexist.

4.48

415

✊🏾 Black Feminism 🎯 Intersectional Feminism 🧨 Black Power

The Black Woman 89%

The 1970 anthology that told white feminists they were bourgeois and Black Power it was sexist.

by Toni Cade Bambara 1970

4.48

415 ratings

✊🏾 Black Feminism 🎯 Intersectional Feminism 🧨 Black Power

Four Hundred Souls

by Ibram X. Kendi • 2021

Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.

4.55

11k+

🖤 African American History ⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade 🔍 Systemic Racism

Four Hundred Souls 89%

Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.

by Ibram X. Kendi 2021

4.55

11k+ ratings

🖤 African American History ⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade 🔍 Systemic Racism

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

by Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

4.37

10k+

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture

Black Rednecks and White Liberals Summary

Black Rednecks and White Liberals 89%

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

by Thomas Sowell 2005

4.37

10k+ ratings

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

by Hanif Abdurraqib • 2017

A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.

4.55

19k+

🎵 Music Criticism 📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Black American Life

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Summary

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us 89%

A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.

by Hanif Abdurraqib 2017

4.55

19k+ ratings

🎵 Music Criticism 📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Black American Life

All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson • 2020

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

4.18

48k+

🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity

All Boys Aren't Blue 89%

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

by George M. Johnson 2020

4.18

48k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity

The Black History of the White House

by Clarence Lusane • 2011

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

4.15

434

🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era

The Black History of the White House Summary

The Black History of the White House 89%

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

by Clarence Lusane 2011

4.15

434 ratings

🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era

Red Summer

by Cameron McWhirter • 2011

The bloodiest American racial violence did not break Black communities. It organized them.

4.20

581

🩸 Racial Violence ✊ Black Activism 🛡️ Self-Defense

Red Summer 89%

The bloodiest American racial violence did not break Black communities. It organized them.

by Cameron McWhirter 2011

4.20

581 ratings

🩸 Racial Violence ✊ Black Activism 🛡️ Self-Defense

The Grift

by Clay Cane • 2024

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

4.32

951

🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism

The Grift 89%

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

by Clay Cane 2024

4.32

951 ratings

🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism

We're Going to Need More Wine

by Gabrielle Union • 2017

Growing up Black in a white suburb, surviving assault, failed IVF: a Hollywood star chooses herself.

4.19

38k+

👤 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🗣️ Code Switching

We're Going to Need More Wine 89%

Growing up Black in a white suburb, surviving assault, failed IVF: a Hollywood star chooses herself.

by Gabrielle Union 2017

4.19

38k+ ratings

👤 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🗣️ Code Switching

Black American Refugee

by Tiffanie Drayton • 2022

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

4.03

331

🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism

Black American Refugee 89%

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

by Tiffanie Drayton 2022

4.03

331 ratings

🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington • 1900

Born a slave. Built a college. His philosophy of racial progress still divides America.

4.11

36k+

🔗 Slave Narratives 🛠️ Self-Reliance 👷 Dignity Of Labor

Up from Slavery 89%

Born a slave. Built a college. His philosophy of racial progress still divides America.

by Booker T. Washington 1900

4.11

36k+ ratings

🔗 Slave Narratives 🛠️ Self-Reliance 👷 Dignity Of Labor

Black Fatigue

by Mary-Frances Winters • 2020

The physiological and psychological toll of systemic racism, passed down through generations.

4.41

1k+

🧱 Systemic Racism 💔 Racial Trauma 🏥 Health Disparities

Black Fatigue 89%

The physiological and psychological toll of systemic racism, passed down through generations.

by Mary-Frances Winters 2020

4.41

1k+ ratings

🧱 Systemic Racism 💔 Racial Trauma 🏥 Health Disparities

Under Our Skin

by Benjamin Watson • 2015

Racism is sin, not sociology. An NFL player on why healing must start in the heart.

4.37

2k+

🌉 Racial Reconciliation ✝️ Christian Social Justice 👮 Police Brutality

Under Our Skin 88%

Racism is sin, not sociology. An NFL player on why healing must start in the heart.

by Benjamin Watson 2015

4.37

2k+ ratings

🌉 Racial Reconciliation ✝️ Christian Social Justice 👮 Police Brutality

How to Be Black

by Baratunde R. Thurston • 2012

A satirical guide to being black: unwritten rules of workplace, friendship, and the media spotlight.

3.90

9k+

🖤 Blackness In America 😂 Racial Satire 🎭 Black Authenticity

How to Be Black 88%

A satirical guide to being black: unwritten rules of workplace, friendship, and the media spotlight.

by Baratunde R. Thurston 2012

3.90

9k+ ratings

🖤 Blackness In America 😂 Racial Satire 🎭 Black Authenticity

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