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Activism & teaching
Lead from the Outside
Stacey Abrams
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Our Time Is Now
Stacey Abrams
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Pleasure Activism
adrienne maree brown
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The Purpose of Power
Alicia Garza
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Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad
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Art, music & design
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
Daphne A. Brooks
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This is What I Know About Art
Kimberly Drew
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We Wanted a Revolution
Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley
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Black Refractions
Connie H. Choi, Thelma Golden, and Kellie Jones
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I Can Make You Feel Good
Tyler Mitchell
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The New Black Vanguard
Antwaun Sargent
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Soul of a Nation
Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley
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Environmental justice
All We Can Save
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine K. Wilkinson
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The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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Waste
Catherine Coleman Flowers
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A Terrible Thing to Waste
Harriet A. Washington
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Essays & poetry
A Little Devil in America
Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
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She Memes Well
Quinta Brunson
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We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Begin Again
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen
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Just Us
Claudia Rankine
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Homie
Danez Smith
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African American Poetry
Kevin Young
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Fiction
Conjure Women
Afia Atakora
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
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Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
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The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
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The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
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Food
The New Way to Cake
Benjamina Ebuehi
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New World Sourdough
Bryan Ford
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Black Girl Baking
Jerrelle Guy
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In Bibi's Kitchen
Hawa Hassan
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In Pursuit of Flavor
Edna Lewis
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Notes from a Young Black Chef
Kwame Onwuachi
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SOUL
Todd Richards
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Rodney Scott's World of BBQ
Rodney Scott
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Vegetable Kingdom
Bryant Terry
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Jubilee
Toni Tipton-Martin
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The Cooking Gene
Michael Twitty
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History
White Rage
Carol Anderson
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Slavery by Another Name
Douglas Blackmon
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Four Hundred Souls
Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
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Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz
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The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
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The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
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Race for Profit
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
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Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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Intersectional feminism
Eloquent Rage
Brittney C. Cooper
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Women, Race and Class
Angela Davis
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Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
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Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
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Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
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LGBTQ+
Go Tell It On the Mountain
James Baldwin
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Punch Me Up to the Gods
Brian Broome
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Unapologetic
Charlene Carruthers
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How We Fight for Our Lives
Saeed Jones
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Zami
Audre Lorde
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Black on Both Sides
C. Riley Snorton
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Memorial
Bryan Washington
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Memoir & biography
When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
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Heavy
Kiese Laymon
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A Promised Land
Barack Obama
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley & Malcolm X
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
Damon Young
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Policy & sociology
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
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From Here to Equality
William A. Darity
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Evicted
Matthew Desmond
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Sister Citizen
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
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Race
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
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Conditional Citizens
Laila Lalami
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The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
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Mediocre
Ijeoma Oluo
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Fatal Invention
Dorothy Roberts
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How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Science fiction & fantasy
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
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Ring Shout
P. Djèlí Clark
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The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
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Trouble the Saints
Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor
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Riot Baby
Tochi Onyebuchi
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Science & medicine
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
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Medical Apartheid
Harriett A. Washington
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Short story collections
Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Five-Carat Soul
James McBride
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Helen Oyeyemi
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw
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Spirituality & religion
Radical Dharma
Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah
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YA, aged 12+
With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo
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Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
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Stamped
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
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All American Boys
Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
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Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
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Concrete Rose
Angie Thomas
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