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- Biased - Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD is one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias
- Black Fatigue - Mary-Frances Winters examines the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people
- Dismantling Racism Resource Web Book - Excellent information and ideas for dismantling racism
- Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City - Social entrepreneur/author Wes Moore and journalist Erica Greene tell the story of the Baltimore uprising after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray
- How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi asks readers to consider what antiracist society might look like and our roles in building it
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou’s debut memoir illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature helped her overcome racism and trauma in her life
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson’s powerful true story about the work of his Equal Justice Initiative, defending those wrongfully convicted in the criminal justice system
- Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life - Excerpt from the book by Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D. that provides psychological suggestions to make our society free of microaggressions
- So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo examines race in contemporary America and gives advice about how to talk about the issues
- The Miner’s Canary - Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres examine the complex relationship between race and power in America
- The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison’s first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin’s essays giving passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston’s book is one of the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel’s in the canon of African-American literature
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander places mass incarceration at the forefront of the movement for racial justice in America
- The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson illuminates the epic story of America’s Great Migration
- The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon analyzes of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation
- Washington Post - What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about the current civil unrest?
- White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo explores white sensitivity to discussions about race and how it maintains racial inequality