BOOKS
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ADULTS
Black Feminist Thought
by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD Strong in Broken Places Quentin Vennie The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale KIDS ------ Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army by Art Coulson, illustrated by Nick Hardcastle Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock by Aslan and Kelly Tudor The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renée Watson, illustrated by Christian Robinso Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim, illustrated by E.B. Lewis When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson, illustrated by Julie Flett Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Lin Wang Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Kadir Nelson The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Floyd Cooper Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Tenayuca, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez The Boy and the Wall by Palestinian refugee children in the Aida Refugee Camp FOR A LIST OF ALL THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNING CHILDRENS BOOKS, ORGANIZED BY AGE PLEASE VISIT: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/coretta-scott-king-book-award-winners ARTICLES ========= “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020) +https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/ Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists +https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By2bSlBi5slDbXB2enJ0RzN6c3M/view ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011) +https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html The 1619 Project by The New York Times Magazine +https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html The Combahee River Collective Statement _http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019) +https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD +http://convention.myacpa.org/houston2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Guidelines-for-Effective-White-Caucuses.pdf ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh +http://convention.myacpa.org/houston2018/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/ahmaud-arbery/611539/