Reading

Articles:

• “The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker

• “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times

• “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN.

• The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning The 1619 Project is as important as ever. Take some time to read (or re-read) the entire thing, particularly this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones

• “You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black,” by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate, for the Washington Post

• “It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha for Elle

• “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic

• “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium

• “Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathis in New York Times, T

• “I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak

• “Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times

Books

• "Between the World and Me" Ta-Nehisi Coates

• "Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education" Mwalimu J. Shujaa

• "Evidence of Things Not Seen" James Baldwin

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

• A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt

• Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

• Waking Up White by Debby Irving

• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

• Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady

• Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell

• They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership, Ed Gordon (2020)

• 55, Underemployed and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life, Elizabeth White (2019)

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz (2018)

• Chokehold: Policing Black Men, Paul Butler (2017)

• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young (2019)

• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

• Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez (2020)

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)