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Recommended Books:

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
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I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin & Raoul Peck

The Mis-Education
of The Negro by Carter G. Woodson

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Black Misery by Langston Hughes

Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans by Farai Chideya

Reel Diversity by Brian C. Johnson

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jayson Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Make Change by Shaun King

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Grown by Tiffany Jackson

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States by Edward B. Foley

Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman

You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Race Matters by Cornel West

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

A Race is a Nice Thing to Have (A Guide to Being a White Person, or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life) by Janet E. Helms, Ph.D.

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum. PhD

The End Of White Politics: How to Heal our Liberal Divide by Zerlina Maxwell

The Color Of Law by Richard Rothstein

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Counting Every Vote: The Most Contentious Elections in American History by Robert Dudley and Eric Shireav

America Afire by Bernard A. Weisberger

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee Tucker Frazier
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