Non-Fiction
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
Supplier: Henry Holt & Company Perfect for fans of Stamped: Remix, This Book Is Antiracist, and The Black Friend, this urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they...
$19.99
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Supplier: Candlewick Press (MA) With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the...
$24.99
Racial Discrimination and Criminal Justice
Supplier: Greenhaven Publishing The Black Lives Matter movement has shined a light on the frequently unequal treatment of African Americans by the U.S. justice system. This has led to some adverse reactions, including the protest slogans All Lives Matter and...
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Race Relations: The Struggle for Equality in America
Supplier: Nomad Press (VT) How could a country founded on the honorable ideals of freedom and equality have so willingly embraced the evils of enslavement and oppression? America’s history of race relations is a difficult one, full of uncomfortable inconsistencies...
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Policing in America
Supplier: Abdo Publishing This title explores the roles police officers have in US society and the history of policing, including arguments for and against police reform. It also highlights todayâs discussions around defunding the police. Features include a glossary, references,...
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Police in America: Inspecting the Power of the Badge
Supplier: New York Times Educational Publishing Law enforcement is a nuanced subsystem of criminal justice that has seen a variety of issues, challenges, and perceptions through its history. This collection of articles moves through these topics, starting with the beginnings...
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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Supplier: Square Fish No Choirboy takes readers inside America's prisons and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices―raw and uncensored―they talk about their lives in prison and share their thoughts and feelings about...
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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
Supplier: Ember The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an HBO documentary feature!In this very personal work--adapted from the...
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How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation
Supplier: Wednesday Books "The Ultimate Resistance Guidebook." ― Bustle"This book will be a light in the darkness for some, and help guide them from despair."― BooklistAn all-star collection of essays about activism and hope, edited by bestselling YA author Maureen Johnson.Now, more...
$19.99
Hate Crime in America: From Prejudice to Violence
Supplier: Compass Point Books Hate crime in the United States is on the rise. The FBI has reported that hate crimes rose by 17 percent in 2017, increasing for the third straight year, and the trend continued into 2018 and...
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Supplier: Dial Books Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. The kidnapping and violent murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in...
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
Supplier: Levine Querido There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic.That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and...
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Supplier: Triangle Square This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than...
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Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Supplier: Crown Books for Young Readers As the fight for equal rights continues, Defiant takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black man growing up in the South...
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Concrete Kids
Supplier: Penguin Workshop Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us."I will close my eyes and disappear into the...
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Black in America
Supplier: Referencepoint Press "Racial bias against African Americans remains part of the fabric of American life, 400 years after the first African slaves stepped off a ship docking near Jamestown, Virginia. Black people often face violent attacks simply because they...
$31.95
Black History Matters
Supplier: Franklin Watts An important and hard-hitting chronicle of black history, written by a celebrated black historianBlack history is an integral part of world history. From the injustices of the past and present, we can learn and be inspired to...
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Supplier: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the...
$19.99
Allies: Real Talk about Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again
Supplier: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) This book is for everyone. Because we can all be allies.As an ally, you use your power—no matter how big or small—to support others. You learn, and try, and mess up, and try harder. In...
$16.99
A History of Racism in America
Supplier: Referencepoint Press Racism against Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians has been a part of American history from the beginning. Despite legislation passed in the 1960s and 1970s intended to end discrimination, the systems created by past government policies...
$31.95