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• When They Call You a Terrorist

  a Black Lives Matter Memoir

  Cullors, Patrisse, 1983-

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• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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• Reclaiming Our Space

  How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets

  Jones, Feminista, 1979-

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• Minority Leader

  How to Lead From the Outside and Make Real Change

  Abrams, Stacey

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• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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• This Will Be My Undoing

  Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (white) America

  Jerkins, Morgan,

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• Eloquent Rage

  a Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

  Cooper, Brittney C., 1980-

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• Redefining Realness

  My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

  Mock, Janet, 1983-

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• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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• Men We Reaped

  a Memoir

  Ward, Jesmyn

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• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

  Essays

  Laymon, Kiese

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• Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching

  a Young Black Man's Education

  Smith, Mychal Denzel, 1986-

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  "A prominent journalist and contributing writer to The Nation magazine describes his education and the experiences of black masculinity against a backdrop of the Obama administration, the death of Trayvon Martin, the career of LeBron James and other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire This Time

  a New Generation Speaks About Race

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  "[A] continuation of James Baldwin's 1963 The Fire Next Time that examines race issues from the past half century through essays, poems and memoir pieces by some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers."

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  Best-seller and multiple award winner. One of the best books of 2015, and named "required reading" by Toni Morrison. (From the book: "This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beast Side

  Living and Dying While Black in America

  Watkins, D. (Dwight)

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  Watkins "writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America."

• How It Went Down

  Magoon, Kekla

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  "When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disgruntled

  a Novel

  Solomon, Asali,

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  "[T]he coming-of-age story of a young African American woman going through a childhood and adolescence in 1980s Philadelphia that are more difficult than most. . . Where does Kenya belong? How will she find her own path, and her own identity, not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Citizen

  An American Lyric

  Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

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  "[R]ecounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

  and Other Conversations About Race

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel

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  "Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences: Whites are afraid of using the wrong words and being perceived as "racist" while parents of color are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Talk & Love

  Stories

  Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah

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  Beginning with a gut-wrenching story based on the attack of four black women in New Jersey, this collection is gorgeous and diverse and captivating. So many of the stories are worth remembering and sharing.