Sonia Sanchez’s Essential Black Literature

At Philly Mag, Sonia Sanchez shares her picks for the “essential books” of Black Literature. “Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery. The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois. And Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston,” Sanchez says. “You cannot teach Black literature without them. And of course, then you have Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka. All of the women who came out of the Black Arts Movement, talking about what it was to be a Black female in a place called America.”