# Reading ## **Articles** - ["How to make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change”](https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067) - Barack Obama (Medium, 2020) - ["Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot”](https://medium.com/@shenequagolding/maintaining-professionalism-in-the-age-of-black-death-is-a-lot-5eaec5e17585) - Shenequa Golding (Medium, 2020) - ["Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites"](https://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/4296) - Kelly M. Hoffman (PNAS, 2016) - [Division of Science and SEAS Community Conversation on June 2, 2020 -- Gazette article](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/harvard-panel-on-george-floyd-and-racial-injustice/) - [Don't Understand the Protests? What You're Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Times, 2020) - [The 1619 Project](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html) - NIkole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times Magazine, 2019) - [The Case for Reparations](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/) - Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic, 2014) - [The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying ](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/)- Adam Serwer (The Atlantic, 2020) - The Minneapolis Uprising in Context - Elizabeth Hinton (Boston Review, 2020) - [White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack](http://www.antiracistalliance.com/Unpacking.html) - Peggy McIntosh (Antiracist Alliance, 1990) - [Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism_b_7183710) - Robin DiAngelo (Huffington Post, 2017) ## **Books** - [A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature ](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9TcGVjdGFjdWxhci1TZWNyZXQtTHluY2hpbmctQW1lcmljYW4tTGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9kcC8wMjI2MzAxMzg5/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB740c244d)- Jacqueline Goldsby (2006) - [Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empires, Prisons, and Torture](https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Democracy-Beyond-Prisons-Torture-ebook/dp/B00557VMLE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=abolition%20Democracy:%20Beyond%20Empires,%20Prisons,%20and%20Torture&qid=1592233322&s=books&sr=1-1) - Angela Davis (2011) - [All about Love](https://www.amazon.com/All-About-Love-New-Visions/dp/0060959479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J4DUSWD0E7RM&dchild=1&keywords=all%20about%20love%20bell%20hooks&qid=1592237829&s=books&sprefix=all%20about%20lo,stripbooks,177&sr=1-1) - Bell Hooks (2018) - [Americanah](https://www.amazon.com/Americanah-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/0307455920/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8KP9V8DNBXUO&dchild=1&keywords=americanah%20by%20chimamanda%20ngozi%20adichie&qid=1592237880&s=books&sprefix=Am,stripbooks,179&sr=1-1) - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014) - [Are Prisons Obsolete?](https://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Open-Media-ebook/dp/B00541Z8BQ) - Angela Davis (2011) - [Assata Shakur: An Autobiography](https://www.amazon.com/Assata-Autobiography-Shakur/dp/1556520743) - Assata Shakur (2001) - [Between the World and Me ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993543/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) - [Biased ](https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Shapes-ebook/dp/B07DH89ZDY)- Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt (2019) - [Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Conciousness, and the Power of Empowerment ](https://www.amazon.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Consciousness-Empowerment/dp/0415964725)- Patricia Hill Collins (2008) - [Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood](https://www.amazon.com/Born-Crime-Stories-African-Childhood-ebook/dp/B01DHWACVY) - Trevor Noah (2016) - [Brutal Imagination](https://www.amazon.com/Brutal-Imagination-Poems-Cornelius-Eady/dp/0399147209) - Cornelius Eady (2001) - [Charleston Syllabus](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA212183231270003941) - Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, Keisha N. Blain (2016) - [Citizen: An American Lyric](https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-American-Lyric-Claudia-Rankine/dp/1555976905) - Claudia Rankine (2014) - [Courageous Conversations About Race](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA212170153980003941) - Glenn Singleton (2015) - [Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower](https://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Rage-Feminist-Discovers-Superpower/dp/1250112885/ref=sr_1_1?crid=OUGOOLEYN2CD&dchild=1&keywords=eloquent%20rage%20a%20black%20feminist%20discovers%20her%20superpower&qid=1592240819&s=books&sprefix=eloq,stripbooks,187&sr=1-1) - Brittany Cooper (2019) - [Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds](https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Strategy-Shaping-Change-Changing-ebook/dp/B06XFP9MMC) - Adrienne Maree Brown (2017) - [From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA212184941490003941) - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016) - [Girl, Woman, Other](https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Woman-Other-Bernardine-Evaristo/dp/0241364906) - Bernardine Evaristo (2019) - [Heavy](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01HVD_ALMA512432654030003941&context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US) - Kiese Laymon (2018) - [Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women a Movement Forgot](https://www.amazon.com/Hood-Feminism-Notes-Movement-Forgot-ebook/dp/B07SVVPSNP) - Mikki Kendall (2020) - [How To Be An Antiracist](https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283) - Ibram X. Kendi (2019) - [How to Be Less Stupid About Race](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01HVD_ALMA512432653880003941&context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US) - Crystal Fleming (2019) - I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin (Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson) - [I know why the Caged Bird Sings](https://www.amazon.com/Know-Why-Caged-Bird-Sings/dp/0345514408) - Maya Angelou (1969) - [I'm Still. Here: Black. Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness](http://austinchanning.com/the-book) - Austin Channing Brown (2018) - [Just Mercy](https://www.amazon.com/Just-Mercy-Story-Justice-Redemption/dp/081298496X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X7ACMQB8VCYY&dchild=1&keywords=just%20mercy&qid=1592241937&s=books&sprefix=jus,aps,196&sr=1-1) - Bryan Stevenson (2015) - [Me and White Supremacy](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5PHNXB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) - Layla F. Saad (2020) - [Monster](https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Walter-Dean-Myers/dp/0064407314/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HC2ZS6NEHYFD&dchild=1&keywords=monster%20by%20walter%20dean%20myers&qid=1592242996&s=books&sprefix=monster%20,stripbooks,173&sr=1-1) - Walter Dean Myers (2001) - [My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies](https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1591578939&refinements=p_27:Resmaa%20Menakem&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Resmaa%20Menakem) - Resmaa Menakem (2017) - [Never Caught](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA212178614610003941) - Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2017) - [One Person, No Vote](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA212197191510003941) - Carol Anderson (2018) - [Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era](https://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Time-Reporter-Unsolved/dp/1451645139) - Jerry Mitchell (2020) - [Race Matters ](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA512373876180003941)- Cornel West (1993) - [Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_pq_ebook_centralEBC1895814&context=PC&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US) - Derald WIngSue (2015) - [Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America](https://www.amazon.com/Raising-White-Kids-Bringing-Children/dp/1501856421) - Jennifer Harvey (2018) - [So You Want to Talk About Race](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9Zb3UtV2FudC1UYWxrLUFib3V0LVJhY2UvZHAvMTU4MDA1Njc3Ng/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eBaef06532) - Ijeoma Oluo (2018) - [The Bluest Eye](https://www.amazon.com/Bluest-Eye-Vintage-International/dp/0307278441) - Toni Morrison (1970) - [The Color of Law](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA212186047470003941) - Richard Rothstein (2017) - [The Broken Heart of America](https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/walter-johnson/the-broken-heart-of-america/9780465064267/) - Walter Johnson (2020) - [The Condemnation of Blackness](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_jstor_books10.2307/j.ctvjsf4fx&context=PC&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US) - Khalil Gibran Muhammad (2010) - [The Fire Next Time](https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Next-Time-James-Baldwin/dp/067974472X) - James Baldwin (1963) - [The Hate You Give](https://www.amazon.com/Hate-U-Give-Angie-Thomas/dp/0062498533) - Angie Thomas (2017) - [The Legacy of Trauma: Context of African American Existence ](https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/equity/projects/infantmortality/session2.2.pdf) - Brandon Jones M.A Psychotheratist and Behavioral Health Consultant ( - [The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9OZXctSmltLUNyb3ctSW5jYXJjZXJhdGlvbi1Db2xvcmJsaW5kbmVzcy9kcC8xNTk1NTg2NDMx/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB68b10eb1) - Michelle Alexander (2010) - [The Nickel Boys](https://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Boys-Novel-Colson-Whitehead/dp/0385537077) - Colson Whitehead (2019) - [The Underground Railroad](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A4ATV0A/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1) - Colson Whitehead (2016) - [The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9XYXJtdGgtT3RoZXItU3Vucy1BbWVyaWNhcy1NaWdyYXRpb24vZHAvMDY3OTc2Mzg4MA/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB973892c0) - Isabel Wilkerson (2010) - [Their Eyes were Watching God](https://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God/dp/0060838671) - Zora Neale Hurston (2006) - [They Were Her Property](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300251831/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (2019) - [Unapolegtic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements](https://www.amazon.com/Unapologetic-Feminist-Mandate-Radical-Movements/dp/0807019410) - Charlene Carruthers (2018) - [Waking Up White](https://www.amazon.com/Waking-White-Finding-Myself-Story/dp/0991331303) - Debby Irving (2014) - [We Were Eight Years in Power](https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Eight-Years-Power/dp/0399590560) - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017) - [Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do](https://www.amazon.com/Whistling-Vivaldi-Stereotypes-Affect-Issues/dp/0393339726) - Claude M. Steele (2010) - [White Fragility](https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414) - Robin DiAngelo (2018) - [White Innocence](https://www.amazon.com/White-Innocence-Paradoxes-Colonialism-Race/dp/0822360756) - Gloria Wekker (2016) - [White Rage](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01HVD_ALMA512432654060003941&context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US) - Carol Anderson (2016) - [Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in Cafeteria?](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01HVD_ALMA512291311400003941&context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US) - Beverly Daniel Tatum (2003) - [Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race](https://www.amazon.com/Longer-Talking-White-People-About-ebook/dp/B06WWPX2YF) - Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017) - [Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy](https://www.amazon.com/Wilmingtons-Lie-Murderous-White-Supremacy-ebook/dp/B07YBK3S7V) - David Zucchino (2020) - Works by [W.E.B. Du Bois](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=w.e.b.%20dubois&i=stripbooks&crid=1VYXN7EZXMZK6&sprefix=W.,stripbooks,182&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_2)