Articles:
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“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
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“Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times
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“This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN.
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The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project is as important as ever. Take some time to read (or re-read) the entire thing, particularly this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones
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“You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black,” by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate, for the Washington Post
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“It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha for Elle
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“The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
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“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
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“Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathis in New York Times, T
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“I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak
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“Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
Books
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"Between the World and Me" Ta-Nehisi Coates
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"Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education" Mwalimu J. Shujaa
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"Evidence of Things Not Seen" James Baldwin
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
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A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
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How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
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Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
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Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
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Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
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Waking Up White by Debby Irving
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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
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Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell
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They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
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I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
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Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership, Ed Gordon (2020)
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55, Underemployed and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life, Elizabeth White (2019)
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz (2018)
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men, Paul Butler (2017)
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young (2019)
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Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
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Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez (2020)
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The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)