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• On Juneteenth

  Gordon-Reed, Annette,

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  With this book of five essays, Gordon-Reed (known for her landmark research on Sally Hemings) examines her own past and family, and interrogates what it means to her to be a Black Texan.

• Miss Juneteenth

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  A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her independent teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.

• Juneteenth

  Ellison, Ralph

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  This book commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union troops marched into Galveston, TX, and announced the Emancipation Proclamation. It's the Fifties, and a young black man has shot a racist senator. As he lay dying, he launches a conversation with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  Author Hanif Abdurraqib investigates Black performance as defining Black community and more broadly American life, ranging as it does from music, sports, and writing to comedy, games, and grief.

• The Warmth of Other Suns : the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  From 1915 to 1970, the exodus of almost six million people who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life changed the face of America. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race.” (Rolling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

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  Investigating the roots of today's structural racism, Harvard scholar Gates shows how the rights African Americans thought they had secured with the Emancipation Proclamation were batted out of the sky by white resistance. Yet as the Reconstruction…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic,

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  Black 17-year-old Justyce experiences police violence and his prep school classmates assume his Yale acceptance is because of affirmative action, yet his neighbors call him a "race-traitor." Justyce's letters to Martin Luther King Jr., alternating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption.

  Stevenson, Bryan

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  Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming-of-age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

• Begin Again

  James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  Mixing biography--drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews--with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude's attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underground Railroad

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Mighty Long Way

  My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

  LaNier, Carlotta Walls

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  Breaking her silence and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls—one of the “Little Rock Nine” who attended Little Rock Central High School in 1957—has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

  and Other Conversations About Race

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel,

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  In straightforward language, professor/ psychologist Tatum explains the development of racial identity. To illustrate her point she uses anecdotes about her sons, excerpts from research interviews, and essays written by her students.

• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

  Womanist Prose

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  A selection of 37 articles and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer includes reviews of other noted authors, reports on Cuba, the civil rights and peace movements, and autobiographical anecdotes As a woman, writer, mother, and feminist,…Read moreRead more of this annotation