Race relations
- Author:Diop, Boubacar BorisSummary:
- Author:Saad, Layla F.Summary:
This book seeks to teach listeners how to dismantle the privilege within themselves, so that they can stop inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
- Author:King, Martin LutherSummary:
This definitive box set includes all the landmark speeches of the great orator and American leader Martin Luther King Jr., from his inspirational "I Have a Dream" to his fiery "Give Us the Ballot."
- Author:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:
In 1921 Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams and suddenly the man is on the streets--barely ahead of a lynch mob gathering behind him. Accused of rape, aspiring magician Joe is on the run for a...
- Author:George, JessicaSummary:
It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from...
- Author:George, JessicaSummary:
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be...
- Author:Abbott, TonySummary:
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing...
- Author:Talley, RobinSummary:
In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever.
Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An...
- Author:King, Martin LutherSummary:
April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The...
- Author:Dome, Nancy A.Summary:
Fear. Avoidance. Division. The safest path can feel like the one without dialogue regarding conversations about equity and diversity. What if you offend the other person? What if they challenge your beliefs? What if you ruin a...
- Author:Boyko, JohnSummary:
To understand Canada one must understand racism, for Canada was born and grew as a racist state. Race riots, segregated schools, racially-based union membership, mass deportations of innocent people, the state sanctioned kidnapping of...
- Author:Lo, MalindaSummary:
Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. "That book. It was about two women, and they...
- Author:Borzutzky, DanielSummary:
Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism...
- Author:Diop, Boubacar BorisSummary:
- Author:Highway, TomsonSummary:
In the 1950s, Abraham Okimasis becomes the first Indian ever to win the Trapper's Festival Dog Sled Race and, as tradition dictates, he is kissed by the festival's beautiful Fur Queen. Nine months afterward, Abraham's wife Mariesis...
- Author:Eig, JonathanSummary:
Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator! This program is narrated by Dion Graham, n arrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards. "Dion Graham...
- Author:Hooks, BellSummary:
Twenty-three essays written from a black and feminist perspective ; they consider the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it.
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
E-journalist J. Sutter travels to West Virginia for the first John Henry Days celebration.
- Author:Everett, PercivalSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view - From the "literary icon" ( Oprah...
- Author:Smith, Mychal DenzelSummary:
How do you learn to be a black man in America' For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and...