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Posted on: February 3, 2023

Running while Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us

Running While Black

by Alison Mariella Désir

A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry.

"Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple act o...

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Posted on: December 16, 2022

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Under the Skin

by Linda Villarosa

Chosen as one of the year’s top ten books by the New York Times, this critically important book lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to “live sicker a...

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Posted on: March 16, 2022

Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Racism Not Race

by Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman

We talk a lot about race, yet we rarely focus on the underlying question of what race is and its connections to racism. Conversations about race can be uncomfortable and confusing, but this is resolvable if we as...

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Posted on: May 21, 2021

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson

One of the most important books to appear in years. The author, who also wrote The Warmth of Other Suns, looks at how an unspoken caste system has shaped America and compares it to caste systems in India and in Nazi Germany. There are a...

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Posted on: November 3, 2020

You Can Keep That to Yourself

You Can Keep That to Yourself

A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallorby Adam Smyer

An eye-opening and humorous little book about a serious topic: the many ways that white people too often offend their black coworkers in conversatio...

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Posted on: June 10, 2020

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

When They Call You a Terrorist

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandel

The authors, leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, have been called terrorists but in truth are women seeking justice for those victimized by the powerful.

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Posted on: June 10, 2020

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement

They Can't Kill Us All

by Wesley Lowery

A deeply reported book about the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray.

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Posted on: June 10, 2020

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

A book by a legal scholar which opened the eyes of Americans to the broken state of the American legal system.

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Posted on: June 5, 2020

How to Be an Antiracist

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” A new approach to race, justice, and equality.

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Posted on: June 5, 2020

The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

The classic that galvanized the country when it was first published in the early days of the civil rights movement.

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Posted on: June 5, 2020

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

The Fire This Time

edited by Jesmyn Ward

A bestseller that continues Baldwin’s conversation with new essays and poems.

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Posted on: June 5, 2020

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

This winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction is an eloquent and heartbreaking memoir in the form of a letter to the author’s teenage son.

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Posted on: June 5, 2020

Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen

by Claudia Rankine

Award-winning poetry that addresses race and racism.

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Posted on: June 5, 2020

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

From Here to Equality

by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen

The most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations; co-author Darity is an Amherst native.

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Posted on: June 10, 2020

When They Come for You: How Police & Government Are Trampling Our Liberties & How to Take Them Back

When They Come for You

by David Kirby

An argument that basic constitutional rights and equal protection under the law are being threatened.

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Posted on: June 10, 2020

The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crime, Racism, and Injustice in American Law Enforcement

The Black and the Blue

by Matthew Horace

An African-American police officer with 28 years of experience writes powerfully about the racism inside American police departments.

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