Some of my favorite books to get you started: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander; Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks; We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More by Janet Mock.