# Reading **Articles:** - “The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of [The New Yorker](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3eW9ya2VyLmNvbS9uZXdzL2RhaWx5LWNvbW1lbnQvdGhlLWRlYXRoLW9mLWdlb3JnZS1mbG95ZC1pbi1jb250ZXh0/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eBbf6ef2fa) - “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the [New York Times](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wNS8yOS9vcGluaW9uL2dlb3JnZS1mbG95ZC1taW5uZWFwb2xpcy5odG1sP2FjdGlvbj1jbGljayZtb2R1bGU9T3BpbmlvbiZwZ3R5cGU9SG9tZXBhZ2U/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB15e8168e) - “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/us/george-floyd-trnd/index.html). - The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning [The 1619 Project](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAxOS8wOC8xNC9tYWdhemluZS8xNjE5LWFtZXJpY2Etc2xhdmVyeS5odG1s/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB85a2409c) is as important as ever. Take some time to read (or re-read) the entire thing, particularly [this essay](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAxOS8wOC8xNC9tYWdhemluZS9ibGFjay1oaXN0b3J5LWFtZXJpY2FuLWRlbW9jcmFjeS5odG1s/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB363cb0b3) 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](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL291dGxvb2svMjAyMC8wNS8yOC9jaHJpc3RpYW4tY29vcGVyLWhhcnZhcmQtYmlyZHdhdGNoaW5nLw/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eBc6b5bb87) - “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](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWxsZS5jb20vY3VsdHVyZS9jYXJlZXItcG9saXRpY3MvYTMyNzAyMTAzL2dlb3JnZS1mbG95ZC1kZWF0aC8/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB2d96afde) - “The Case for Reparations,” by [Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/) for [The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/) - “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in [Medium](https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067) - “Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by [Ayana Mathis](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/30/t-magazine/black-authors.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=T%20Magazine) in [New York Times, T](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/30/t-magazine/black-authors.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=T%20Magazine) - “[I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/02/mayor-minneapolis-police-racism-294985?cid=apn),” by R.T. Rybak - “[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),” 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](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9XYXJtdGgtT3RoZXItU3Vucy1BbWVyaWNhcy1NaWdyYXRpb24vZHAvMDY3OTc2Mzg4MA/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB973892c0) by Isabel Wilkerson - [A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9TcGVjdGFjdWxhci1TZWNyZXQtTHluY2hpbmctQW1lcmljYW4tTGl0ZXJhdHVyZS9kcC8wMjI2MzAxMzg5/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB740c244d) by Jacqueline Goldsby - [The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9OZXctSmltLUNyb3ctSW5jYXJjZXJhdGlvbi1Db2xvcmJsaW5kbmVzcy9kcC8xNTk1NTg2NDMx/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eB68b10eb1) by Michelle Alexander - [So You Want to Talk About Race](https://link.katiecouric.com/click/20470901.40994/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9Zb3UtV2FudC1UYWxrLUFib3V0LVJhY2UvZHAvMTU4MDA1Njc3Ng/5d77ef78fc942d6a7e338a4eBaef06532) by Ijeoma Oluo - [Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood](https://www.amazon.com/Born-Crime-Stories-African-Childhood-ebook/dp/B01DHWACVY) by Trevor Noah - [How To Be An Antiracist](https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283) by Ibram X. Kendi - [White Fragility](https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414) by Robin DiAngelo - [Biased](https://www.amazon.com/Biased-Uncovering-Hidden-Prejudice-Shapes-ebook/dp/B07DH89ZDY) by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt - [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) by David Zucchino - [Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America](https://www.amazon.com/Raising-White-Kids-Bringing-Children/dp/1501856421) by Jennifer Harvey - [Waking Up White](https://www.amazon.com/Waking-White-Finding-Myself-Story/dp/0991331303) by Debby Irving - [Citizen: An American Lyric](https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-American-Lyric-Claudia-Rankine/dp/1555976905) by Claudia Rankine - [Brutal Imagination](https://www.amazon.com/Brutal-Imagination-Poems-Cornelius-Eady/dp/0399147209) by Cornelius Eady - [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) by Jerry Mitchell - [They Were Her Property](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300251831/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers - [I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness](https://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Here-Dignity-Whiteness/dp/1524760854) by Austin Channing Brown - [Me and White Supremacy](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5PHNXB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) by Layla F. Saad - [Between the World and Me](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993543/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) 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)