• SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love((Valarie Kaur)
  The radical, joyful practice extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It asks us to see no stranger but, instead, look at others and say, “You are a part of me I do not yet know.”

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• THE SERVICE BERRY: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
  A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons from nature.

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• FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Timothy Egan) The riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who helped bring them down.

 

• CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson)
  A masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America which explores how American history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

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• SKIN (Guy Nattiv)
  Oscar-winning short film about a moment that sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

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• THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)
  This book challenges the civil rights community ~ and all of us ~ to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

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• 13TH (Ava DuVernay)
  Oscar-nominated film that analyzes the tragic impact of the 13th Amendment on the American system of incarceration, specifically how the prison industrial complex affects people of color.

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• THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Isabel Wilkerson)
  In this critically acclaimed, modern classic of narrative nonfiction, three young people set out on a perilous journey out of the Jim Crow South to the North and West in search of warmth.

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• WHEN THEY SEE US (Ava DuVernay)
  Emmy Award-winning film based on the true story of five Harlem teens who become trapped in a nightmare when they’re falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.
   

• NICE RACISM: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm (Robin DiAngelo)
  Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, the author models a path forward, encouraging readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment, and accountability.
   

• THE COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  (Richard Rothstein) This book details how federal housing policies in the 1940-50s mandated segregation and undermined the ability of black families to own homes and build wealth.
   

• THE FIRE NEXT TIME (James Baldwin)
  At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, this book is an intensely personal and provocative document.