Suggested Readings

If you want to learn more about issues that young African-American men encounter, please check out our suggested readings. The Black Male Summit® wants to ensure you will be provided with the necessary reading materials to help young black males in their journey.

• Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

Craig Steven Wilder

• The Covenant in Action - Tavis Smiley
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

• Killing Rage: Ending Racism

Bell Hooks

• Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

• God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time

Desmond Tutu

• Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future

Jack Cashill

• The Mis-Education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson

• It's About Time - America's Imprisonment Binge

John Irwin

• The Urban Underclass

Christopher Jencks

• American Apartheid

Douglas Massey