Summer Reading for Black Children
28 Books for Parents Raising a Black Male Child

A Black Parent’s Handbook to Educating Your Children
(Outside of the Classroom) by Baruti K. Kafele
- A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington
- Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful
African American Males by Freeman A. Hrabowski,
Kenneth I. Maton, and Geoffrey L. Greif - Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine
to Foie Gras by Jeff Henderson - How to Get Out of Debt: Get an a Credit Rating
for Free Using the System I’ve Used Successfully
With Thousands of Clients by Harrine Freeman - Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of
African American Boys in American Classrooms
by Michael Porter - Letters to Young Brothers by Hill Harper
- Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled
Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League
by Paula Penn-Nabrit - Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education
by Jawanza Kunjufu - Raising Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
- Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson - Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
by William Pollack and Mary Pipher - Saving Our Sons by Marita Golden
- Single Mamahood: Advice and Wisdom for the
African-American Single Mother by Kelly Williams - Stickin’ To, Watchin’ Over, and Gettin’ With: An African
American Parent’s Guide to Discipline
by Howard Stevenson, Gwendolyn Davis & Saburah Abdul-Kabir - Strength for Their Journey: 5 Essential Disciplines
African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
by Robert L. Johnson & Paulette Stanford - Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment
for Women by Iyanla Vanzant - The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life
by Kevin Powell - The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and
Reconnect with Their Fathers by Sampson Davis,
Rameck Hunt & George Jenkins - The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and
Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins,
Rameck Hunt, and Remeck Hunt - The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
- The Single Mom’s Little Book of Wisdom
by Cassandra Mack - The Warrior Method: A Parents’ Guide to Rearing
Healthy Black Boys by Raymond Winbush - Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living
and Loving by Iyanla Vanzant - Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and
Peril by Kevin Merida - Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
by Terrie Williams - Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing
Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving
Young Men by Leonard Sax - Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage
Sons by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Pamela A. Toussaint,
and A. J. Franklin - 101 Things Every Boy/Young Man of Color Should Know
by LaMarr Darnell Shields - Come On People: On the Path from Victims to
Victors by Bill Cosby