The following is a list of authors with their books that have come into my life and changed me one page at a time in the last 2 years. It's written somewhat in chronological order. Thank you Jennifer Turner, Vera Williams, Ray Bailey, Jayna Brown, Bonnie Wilson, and especially to all the writers. 

Mildred Taylor                     "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" and "Let the Circle Be Unbroken"          
David Cappello                   "The People's Grocer; John G. Schwegmann, New Orleans, the Making of the Modern Retail World"        
Kenneth M. Stampp         "The Peculiar Institution"          
Chiek Anta Diop                 "Civilization and Barbarism"           
Ram Un Nefer Amen       "Ma'at"          
Edward Baptist                  "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism"         
Cotton and Cane Slaves         "Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton and Cane Plantations" edited by Lynette Ater Tanner            
Alabama's Slaves               "Slave Narratives: Alabama" from the Federal Writers' Project
Camara Laye                        "The Radiance of the King"   
Howard Thurman             "Jesus and the Disinherited"          
James Cone                           "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" and "A Black Theology of Liberation"       
Frederick Douglas             "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"          
Toni Morrison                     "The Bluest Eye"
Dr. Joyce Degruy                "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome"          
Yaa Gyasi                                "Homegoing"           
Zora Neale Hurston        "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Barracoon"           
Kalamu ya Salaam            "Be About Beauty"         
Delores S. Williams          "Sisters in the Wilderness"       
Chinua Achebe                    "When Things Fall Apart"          
Mary Washington             "Sojourner Truth's America" 
Black Female Writers     "Midnight Birds and Black Eyed Susans"  edited by Mary Washington
Negro Writers                      "The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers"  edited by Langston Hughes
Christopher Emdin           "For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood"      
Nikki Giovanni                     "The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni 1968-1998"
Colson Whitehead            "The Underground Railroad"           
Walter Brueggemann       "Silence"         
Leo Tolstoy                               "Walk in the Light"
Doris Kearns Goodwin     "Leadership"  
​James Baldwin                       "Go Tell it on the Mountain"     
Madeleine Albright            "Fascism"      
Toni Morrison                        "The Source of Self-Regard"
Ari Berman                             "Give Us the Ballot"  
Helene Cooper                     "Madame President"
Richard Rohr                         "The Universal Christ"
Toni Morrison                       "Sula," "Song of Solomon," "Tar Baby," "Beloved" "Paradise"
Sara Bloom                             "The Yellow House"
David Billings                        "Deep Denial"
Steven Greenhouse           "Beaten Down, Worked Up"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "Race for Profit"
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