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Recommended Books:

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

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 and Skyra C. Blanchard

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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

Heading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

A Race is a Good Thing to Have (A Guide to Being a White Person) by Janet E. Helms

Heading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

End Of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell

The Color Of Law by Richard Rothstein

You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson

his 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

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

Brainwashed by Tom Burrell

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

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Race Matters by Cornel West

Incidents in the Life of a Slave written by herself, Harriet A. Jacobs

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

A Race is a Good Thing to Have (A Guide to Being a White Person) by Janet E. Helms

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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

Heading 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

Other Wes Moore 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

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee Tucker Frazier
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