"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios

"Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward

"At Mama's Knee: Mother's and Race in Black and White" by April Ryan

"Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls" by Monique W. Morris

"Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" by Piper Kerman

"Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education" by Mychal

"Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

"Never Go Home Again" by Shannon Holmes

"Queen Sugar" by Natalie Baszile

"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander

"The Book of Harlan" by Bernice McFadden

"I. C. U." by Al Kirkland

"Muchacho" by Louanne Johnson

"All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates