Reading
Articles
- "How to make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change” - Barack Obama (Medium, 2020)
- "Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot” - Shenequa Golding (Medium, 2020)
- "Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites" - Kelly M. Hoffman (PNAS, 2016)
- Division of Science and SEAS Community Conversation on June 2, 2020 -- Gazette article
- Don't Understand the Protests? What You're Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Times, 2020)
- The 1619 Project - NIkole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times Magazine, 2019)
- The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, 2014)
- The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying - Adam Serwer (The Atlantic, 2020)
- The Minneapolis Uprising in Context - Elizabeth Hinton (Boston Review, 2020)
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh (Antiracist Alliance, 1990)
- Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism - Robin DiAngelo (Huffington Post, 2017)
Books
- A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature - Jacqueline Goldsby (2006)
- Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empires, Prisons, and Torture - Angela Davis (2011)
- All about Love - Bell Hooks (2018)
- Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)
- Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis (2011)
- Assata Shakur: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur (2001)
- Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- Biased - Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt (2019)
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Conciousness, and the Power of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins (2008)
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah (2016)
- Brutal Imagination - Cornelius Eady (2001)
- Charleston Syllabus - Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, Keisha N. Blain (2016)
- Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (2014)
- Courageous Conversations About Race - Glenn Singleton (2015)
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittany Cooper (2019)
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - Adrienne Maree Brown (2017)
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016)
- Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2019)
- Heavy - Kiese Laymon (2018)
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women a Movement Forgot - Mikki Kendall (2020)
- How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- How to Be Less Stupid About Race - Crystal Fleming (2019)
- I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin (Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson)
- I know why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (1969)
- I'm Still. Here: Black. Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown (2018)
- Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson (2015)
- Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad (2020)
- Monster - Walter Dean Myers (2001)
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem (2017)
- Never Caught - Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2017)
- One Person, No Vote - Carol Anderson (2018)
- Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era - Jerry Mitchell (2020)
- Race Matters - Cornel West (1993)
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence - Derald WIngSue (2015)
- Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America - Jennifer Harvey (2018)
- So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (2018)
- The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (1970)
- The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein (2017)
- The Broken Heart of America - Walter Johnson (2020)
- The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad (2010)
- The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (1963)
- The Hate You Give - Angie Thomas (2017)
- The Legacy of Trauma: Context of African American Existence - Brandon Jones M.A Psychotheratist and Behavioral Health Consultant (
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander (2010)
- The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (2019)
- The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (2016)
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
- Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (2006)
- They Were Her Property - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (2019)
- Unapolegtic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene Carruthers (2018)
- Waking Up White - Debby Irving (2014)
- We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do - Claude M. Steele (2010)
- White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo (2018)
- White Innocence - Gloria Wekker (2016)
- White Rage - Carol Anderson (2016)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum (2003)
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)
- Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy - David Zucchino (2020)
- Works by W.E.B. Du Bois