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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Don Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural appropriation to power dynamics, "reverse racism" to white...
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Language
English
Description
"'The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it.' Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Professor Pi Suleman, a Black man from Memphis, has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by another professor. When he meets Gemma Buckingham, who has just moved to Memphis from London, things begin looking up. But Pi's romance is interrupted when his absentee father, a celebrated author who had an extramarital affair...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament to the resilience of the African American community, this book honors what has been and envisions what is to be.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level. Includes culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompts"--
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Language
English
Description
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey₇first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration...
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Language
English
Description
Sisters violet and Marigold are the only surviving members of the Richards family. Twenty-two-year-old Violet has always been unconventional, doing what she wants when she wants; she knows she was a disappointment to her parents. Her older sister Marigold has long been the "good girl"--good grades in school, no sex before marriage, adhering to their mama's admonishment to "become invisible" around white people. Marigold now works for the Mississippi...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves.
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