"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is fantastic. It's fiction, but informed by Hurston's experience growing up in Eatonville, a black town that formed in the post-reconstruction south. It started as a very egalitarian community, but eventually fell to exploitation of blacks by other blacks who had accumulated some wealth. There's also a fair amount of discourse on black on black racism, as those with lighter skin were seen as superior to darker skinned people within the community.

"Woman Hollering Creek" is a really good short story by Cisneros that discusses the role of women in Mexican-American culture and toxic masculinity, misogyny and abuse.