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Incoming Resources
- Rest is resistance, a manifesto, Tricia Hersey
- Don't call us dead, poems, Danez Smith
- My larger education;, being chapters from my experience, by Booker T. Washington, illustrated from photographs
- The new Jim Crow, mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- My grandmother's hands, racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies, Resmaa Menakem
- The political economy of slavery;, studies in the economy & society of the slave South, [by] Eugene D. Genovese
- The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis ; adapted by Brandy Colbert and Jeanne Theoharis
- The color of compromise, the truth about the American church's complicity in racism, Jemar Tisby
- Duke, a life of Duke Ellington, Terry Teachout
- Picturesque United States of America, 1811, 1812, 1813,, being a memoir on Paul Svinin, Russian diplomatic officer, artist, and author, containing copious excerpts from his account of his travels in America, with fifty-two reproductions of water colors in his own sketch-book,, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky; introduction by R.T.H. Halsey
- Fire shut up in my bones, a memoir, Charles M. Blow
- Getting away with murder, the true story of the Emmett Till case, by Chris Crowe
- Writings, James Weldon Johnson
- Legal lynching, racism, injustice, and the death penalty, Jesse Jackson, with Jesse Jackson, Jr
- Eloquent rage, a Black feminist discovers her superpower, Brittney Cooper
- Flossie and the fox., Patricia C. McKissack & Rachel Isadora (Dial), c1986
- An American story, Kwame Alexander ; art by Dare Coulter
- The souls of Black folk, W.E.B. DuBois
- Black man in a white coat, a doctor's reflections on race and medicine, Damon Tweedy, M.D
- The moment, thoughts on the Race reckoning that wasn't and how we all can move forward now, Bakari Sellers
- The fire next time, James Baldwin
- Backlash, what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America, George Yancy ; foreword by Cornel West
- Parable of the sower, Octavia E. Butler
- The songs of blind folk, African American musicians and the cultures of blindness, Terry Rowden
- Pleasure activism, the politics of feeling good, written and gathered by adrienne maree brown
- Skin again, written by bell hooks ; illustrated by Chris Raschka
- Percy Julian:Forgotten genius, a Nova production for WGBH Boston ; written by Stephen Lyons & Llewellyn M. Smith ; directed by Llewellyn M. Smith ; produced by Llewellyn M. Smith, Stephen Lyons
- Stamped, racism, antiracism, and you, written by Jason Reynolds ; adapted from Stamped from the beginning by and with an introduction from Ibram X. Kendi
- Reclaiming our health, a guide to African American wellness, Michelle A. Gourdine ; illustrations by Catharine L. Love
- Your house will pay, a novel, Steph Cha
- American pimp, Underworld Entertainment ; a Hughes Brothers film
- We cast a shadow, a novel, Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- All the right stuff, by Walter Dean Myers
- Who speaks for the Negro?
- Blues people, Negro music in white America, LeRoi Jones
- How we get free, Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective, edited and introduced by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The new Brownies' book, a love letter to black families, by Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer
- Black reconstruction;, an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880,, by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ..
- One last word, wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance, Nikki Grimes ; artwork by Cozbi A. Cabrera, R. Gregory Christie, Pat Cummings, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Ebony Glenn, Nikki Grimes, E.B. Lewis, Frank Morrison, Christopher Myers, Brian Pinkney, Sean Qualls, James Ransome, Javaka Steptoe, Shadra Strickland, Elizabeth Zunon
- The African Americans, edited by Charles M. Collins and David Cohen ; text by Cheryl Everette, Susan Wels, and Evelyn C. White
- Tell all the children our story, memories and mementos of being young and Black in America, Tonya Bolden
- Box, Henry Brown mails himself to freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood
- Race relations in a democracy
- The 1619 Project, born on the water, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson ; illustrated by Nikkolas Smith
- How they got over, African Americans and the call of the sea, Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- All that she carried, the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, Tiya Miles
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- The 1619 Project, a new origin story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
- This is my country too, [by] John A. Williams
- The street ;, The narrows, Ann Petry ; Farah Jasmine Griffin, editor
Outgoing Resources
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