FamU Book Club
Build Competence Foster Connectedness
Encourage confidence to act
Each book is connected to a Town Hall that you can find in the “Explore More” section, where you can take a deeper dive into any of the available content. The book club will be revolving and include a section for book suggestions.
Note: Bookshop.org is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. They are a benefit program dedicated to the public good. “By design, we give away over 75% of our profit margin to stores, publications, authors and others who make up the thriving, inspirational culture around books!” There is also a link that connects you to bookshops in your area.
From time to time, we will feature Black-owned and other local or online bookstores and welcome you to share suggestions!
Happy Reading!
Rest to Create Change
Skill in Action
By Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
By Dr. Gail Parker
Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga
By Dr. Gail Parker
Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
By Octavia Raheem
The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices and Rituals to Remember Who You Are
By Tracee Stanley
Audio supplement
Black Culinary History
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
By Jessica B Harris
The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
By Adrian Miller
Adrian Miller talks about the book on C-SPAN.org
The Taste of Country Cooking: The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Southern Classic Cookbook
By Edna Lewis
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
By Bryant Terry
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking
By Toni Tipton Martin
Mama Dip’s Family Cookbook
By Mildred Council
The Dooky Chase Cookbook
By Leah Chase
Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
By Michael W Twitty
Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration
By Carla Hall and Genevieve Ko
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food
By Marcus Samuelsson
Children’s Books
The People Could Fly
By Virginia Hamilton
The ABC’s of Black History
By Rio Cortez
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
By Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
The Undefeated
By Kwame Alexander
Mr. Marshall’s Block Party
Written by Yetta Myrick and Morgan Cruise – Illustrated by Jennifer Price Davis
Racism & Segregation In Schools
Town Hall #3
Through My Eyes
By Ruby Ridges
The Story of Ruby Bridges
By Robert Cole
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
By Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Talk
Town Hall #4
The Talk: Conversation about Race, Love & Truth
Edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
By Emmanuel Acho
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
By Emmanuel Acho
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
Mental Health
Town Hall #5
Social (IN)Justice and Mental Health
By Edited by Ruth S. Shim, M.D, M.P.H. & Sarah Y Vinson, M.D.
Black Mental Health Matters
By Aaren Synder, LMFT
The School to Prison Pipeline
Town Hall #6
PUSHOUT: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By Monique W. Morris
Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
By Daniel White Hodge et al
Voices from the School to Prison Pipeline
By Jr. M. Ed Ron King
Health
Town Hall #7
EmpowHERed Health: Reforming a Dismissive Health Care System
By S. Mayumi “Umi” Grisby
Henrietta Lacks the Untold Story
By Ron Lacks
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation of Black American from Colonial Times to Present
By Harriett A. Washington
Black Culture
Town Hall #8
Honey, I Love
By Eloise Greenfield
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
No Disrespect
By Sister Souljah
