Black Lives Matter & Racial Justice

"Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live. It is a tool for our allies to show up differently for us."
Patrisse Cullors Founder, Black Lives Matter

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Books, Reading Lists & Podcasts

The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin

Children of Blood & Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin

The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead

Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult

Homegoing – Yaya Gyasi

An American Marriage – Tayari Jones

Monster – Walter Dean Meyers

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Nora Neale Hurston

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Criminal Justice System

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

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption – Bryan Stevenson

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence & Resistance in the United States – Maya Schenwar, et al.

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

General Reading

So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo

Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the 21st Century – Monique Morris

Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism – Safiya Noble

White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race

Me & White Supremacy – Layla Saad

Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement – Angela Davis et al.

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin

Men we Reaped: A Memoir – Jesmyn Ward

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery & the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi

Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis – Annegret Staiger

Segregation

Housing Segregation

Not in My Neighborhood – Antero Pietila

Educational Segregation

Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone & Its Troubled Legacy – James Patterson

All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education – Charles Ogletree

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