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30 Books for Parents Raising a Black Male Child
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The Raising Him Alone Campaign announces its list of 30 Books for Parents raising a Black Male Child. The books selected inspire, challenge, confuse and stimulate the minds and hearts of parents raising boys in a "toxic" society.

The campaign realizes that raising a Black male child can be both rewarding but difficult. For this reason we are dedicated to supporting "Serious Parenting." Please share this list with others. Our sons are waiting for us to step up!
  1. A Black Parent's Handbook to Educating Your Children (Outside of the Classroom) by Baruti K. Kafele
  2. A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington
  3. Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males by Freeman A. Hrabowski, Kenneth I. Maton, and Geoffrey L. Greif
  4. Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras by Jeff Henderson
  5. 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
  6. Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms by Michael Porter
  7. Letters to Young Brothers by Hill Harper
  8. Morning by Morning: How We Home-Schooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League by Paula Penn-Nabrit
  9. Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education by Jawanza Kunjufu
  10. Raising Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu
  11. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
  12. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack and Mary Pipher
  13. Saving Our Sons by Marita Golden
  14. Single Mamahood: Advice and Wisdom for the African-American Single Mother by Kelly Williams
  15. Stickin' To, Watchin' Over, and Gettin' With: An African American Parent's Guide to Discipline by Howard Stevenson, Gwendolyn Davis & Saburah Abdul-Kabir
  16. Strength for Their Journey: 5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens by Robert L. Johnson & Paulette Stanford
  17. Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women by Iyanla Vanzant
  18. The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life by Kevin Powell
  19. The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt & George Jenkins
  20. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Remeck Hunt
  21. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
  22. The Single Mom's Little Book of Wisdom by Cassandra Mack
  23. The Warrior Method: A Parents' Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys by Raymond Winbush
  24. Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving by Iyanla Vanzant
  25. Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril by Kevin Merida
  26. Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting by Terrie Williams
  27. Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax
  28. Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Pamela A. Toussaint, and A. J. Franklin
  29. 101 Things Every Boy/Young Man of Color Should Know by LaMarr Darnell Shields
  30. Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby
 
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