20 Books About Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights to Put on Your Essential Reading List

Between 2012 and 2016, the Black Lives Matter movement drew attention to violence against Black Americans, and has since given way to a resurgent Black Freedom Movement, supported by organizations and young leaders, many of them women, and many of them identifying as queer, expanding the goals to include intersectional racial justice. Historian and activist Barbara Ransby wrote Making All Black Lives Matter as a way to include the whole Black community in the movement, and serve as a resource for all people looking to make change.