Parable of the  Sower by Octavia Butler

The Idea of Black Culture by Hortense J. Spillers 

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks

What Exceeds the Hold?: An Interview with Christina Sharpe by Selamawit Terrefe 

Unburdening Representation by Tavia Nyong’o (article)

Rebellion/Invention/Groove by Katherine McKittrick 

On Decadence: Bling Bling by David Marriott 

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 

 I am not supposed to be here: an 8-part exercise in self-love and breaking things at the appropriate time by michael felder 

Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston (short)

Drenched In Light by Zora Neale Hurston

The Dancing Mind by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Poems by Audre Lorde

Zami, Sister Outsider and Undersong by Audre Lorde

Matigari by Ngugi  Wa Thiong’o

 A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem by Eric Garber

 Arthur Jafa in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Sula by Toni Morrison

Poems by Maya Angelou

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou 

Multimedia: Poem for Some Women by Sonia Sanchez, Def Poetry 

Afrofuturism and Post-Soul Possibility in Black Popular Music by Mario David

Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monae’s Neo-Afrofuturism by Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne

Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility by Sampada Aranke (article)

Pilot of Atlanta by Donald Glover

the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth

loveconjure/blues by sharon bridgforth

Facing and Transforming  Hauntings of Race Through the Arts by Rosemarie A. Roberts