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Good Reads: please consider borrowing from your local lobrary or purchasing from your local bookstore seller

  • The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  • The Age of McArthyism — A Brief History with Documents by Ellen Schrecker and Philip Deery

  • An Indigenous People’s History by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

  • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

  • Faith and Boundaries by David Sullivan

  • From A Whisper to A Rallying Cry — The Killing of Vencint Chin and the Trial that Galvinized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

  • Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

  • Half American by Matthew Delmont

  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

  • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

  • Infamy — The Shocking Story of Japanese Internment by Richard Reeves

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson

  • The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee

  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

  • Naming Names by Victor Navasky

  • Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Sen

  • On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson

  • On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

  • Perilous Times — Free Speech in War Time — From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey Stone

  • The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel

  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

  • Taking Children — A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs

  • The Sum of Us by Heather McGee

  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

  • This Land is Their Land by David Sullivan

  • This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins

  • Touch the Earth by T.C. McLuhan

  • The Water Dancer by Terry Gamble

  • Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa

  • We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang

  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword)

  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

  • When Paris Went Dark — The City of Light Under German Occupation by Ronald Rosbottom

  • Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar and Alana Yu-lan Price

  • Yellow Peril — An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats