Amplifying Black Authors

I didn't want Black History Month to pass without mentioning some great Black authors whose works I've read in the past few years.  Highly recommend all, and can't wait to read more (that's a not so subtle request for suggestions please, and yes I know there are many in the "canon" that I haven't yet gotten to!).

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem – Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Half of a Yellow Sun; We Should All Be Feminists

Alexander, Michelle – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Blow, Charles – Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Coates, Ta-Nehisi – We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy; Between the World and Me

Fluornoy, Angela – The Turner House

Gay, Roxane – Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Hinton, Anthony Ray – The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Kendi, Ibram - How to Be an Antiracist

Powell, Colin – It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

Ramey Berry, Daina – The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Rice, Condoleezza – Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to

Shetterly, Margot Lee – Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space

Stewart, Alison – First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

Wilkerson, Isabel – The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration; Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Wright, Richard – Black Boy