In the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and the resulting protests, we recommend these works to help explain the ways in which the bloody legacy of slavery continues to impact the lives of modern-day Americans
A young man is wrongfully incarcerated and fights desperately to save his marriage while in prison — only to learn that his wife has fallen in love with someone else. And that's just the beginning of Tayari Jones's tense, timely love story. Told in letters and from alternating perspectives, packed with brave questions about race and class,is the perfect book-club book — one the whole group will finish and discuss with conviction.
When blacks fought to claim their rights after the Civil War, a vicious backlash kept them down. And after the country’s first black president? Gates’s fascinating history helps make sense of where we are now.Drawing on his own life, a historian examines racism’s structural roots and points the way to winning "the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.
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