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As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are just a few book recommendations (there are so much more out there), include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

Thank you so much for more recs. Below are some more amazing book recommendations from the comments:

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated by Richard Rothstein

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

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Policing the Black Man by Angela Davis

At The Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

What Set Me Free by Bryan Banks 

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams 

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas 

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

The short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace By Jeff Hobbs

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

cinder is SELFLESS

kai is DIPLOMATIC

scarlet is BRAVE

wolf is SUPER STRONG

cress is A GENIUS HACKER

thorne

winter is KIND

Kai: Here!

thorne: yea five feet taller than you

scarlet:

thorne:

Scarlet: I don’t act that way. What do you think, Cinder? Do I act like a mom?

Cinder: Well, I…

Scarlet: Stop fidgeting with your hands and speak clearly when you talk.

Kai is sarcastic, but in a subdued way when he has to be professional. When around friends and family it’s obvious. His comments make people question whether or not it was a joke or if it was real. 

Wolf has a bit more of an innocent type of humor. He’s 

Thorne is this most blatant about his humor. He makes crude jokes and sarcastic ones, and basically he’s always trying to get people to laugh.

Jacin has a really dry sense of humor. Kinda like Kai, people have to tilt their heads and think about what he said for a minute. Even then they usually don’t understand what was funny about it.

I just… I really need them hanging out and I need Jacin and Thorne interacting more because I feel like it’d constantly be “hey Jacin im gonna do the thing.” “no.” *does it anyway* and Jacin sighs because Thorne is an idiot, but ends up helping him with whatever it is anyway. 

And after that one scene in Cress where Kai sees Wolf just casually stitching himself up like it’s nothing, I need more of them interacting too. Because that whole scene was just… wow. it was gold. 

Then I need Kai and Thorne interacting because I feel like they’d become friends partially because they’re Cinder’s boyfriend and best friend so when one is concerned about her they ask the other if they think she’s ok. But also because Thorne is trying to figure out how to be better, and who’s better than the emperor of the eastern commonwealth?

Jacin and Wolf sit or work with sharp objects (like whittling or chopping wood) in silence together. Kai and Thorne think it’s kinda weird–creepy–but whatever floats their boat.

But then all of them interacting with each other is a complete and utter train wreck. Somehow Wolf ends up being the most controlled of them all (ok I guess it’s not surprising at all, he is the oldest and has arguably been through the most traumatizing stuff of the four of them). Because Thorne is always a disaster, but then you add in Kai who, let’s be honest, probably didn’t get to have much fun as a kid. So when Kai’s with his friends and they miraculously manage to blend in to a crowded area, he just goes ham, kinda reverts back to being a child and it’s hilarous but gives Wolf a headache at the same time. Jacin is kinda the second in command, but it’s also not very hard for Thorne and Kai to challenge him to do something which makes him be like “you know what? fine.” and do the thing. And Wolf is just like “oh my god please dont die! oh my god you cant eat that! oh my god get down from that tree!”

scarlet

thorne

jacin

wolf

iko

winter

kai

cress

cinder