Reparative Reading
Book Titles
Facilitated by
Branden Janese
2025
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
2024
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Presented by LFP
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
Presented by LFP
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Presented by LFP
The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara
*Made possible by a fellowship from Culture Push
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J. Brown
*Made possible by a fellowship from Culture Push
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Presented by LFP
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Presented by LFP
Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
Presented by LFP
All About Love by bell hooks
*Made possible by a fellowship from Culture Push
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome
Presented by LFP
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Presented by LFP
Everything But The Burden by Greg Tate
Presented by LFP
2023
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan
Presented by LFP
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Presented by LFP
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
*Made possible by an Innovation Grant from the NYC Mayor's Office
Black Macho and the Myth of Superwoman
by Michele Wallace
*Made possible by an Innovation Grant from the NYC Mayor's Office
The Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller
*Made possible by an Innovation Grant from the NYC Mayor's Office
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Presented by LFP at The Bronx Museum
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Presented by LFP
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America ... by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Presented by LFP at The Bronx Museum
2022
The 1619 Project curated by Nikole Hanna-Jones
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Presented by The Literary Freedom Project (watch the session here)
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera
Love War Stories By Ivelisse Rodriguez
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda
2021
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis Leyva and Marizol Leyva
2020
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (watch the sessions here)
Locked Gray / Linked Blue: Stories by Kem Joy Ukwu (watch the sessions here)
Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
2019
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
2018
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion by Natasha Tarpley
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education