Consider reading some of the books by the contributors, including Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, Jesmyn Ward’s Sing Unburied Sing, and Eve Ewing’s Ironheart and 1919.
Consider reading some texts related to the legacies of slavery, like Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother and Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return.