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• Stay Up

  Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom

  Dill, Khodi

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  An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.

• The Skin We're in

  a Year of Black Resistance and Power

  Cole, Desmond, 1982-

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  Chronicling just one year in the struggle against racism in this country, The Skin We're In reveals in stark detail the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis: the devastating effects of racist policing, the hopelessness…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  a Novel

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  National Book Award winner McBride tells a vibrant tale of Chicken Hill, a working-class neighborhood of Jewish, Black, and European immigrant families in Pottstown, Pa., where the 1972 discovery of a human skeleton unearths events that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Americanah

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  A story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together, until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Spanning three continents, entering the lives of a richly drawn cast of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Things Fall Apart

  Achebe, Chinua

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  THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. This is the first book in the trilogy.

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa

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  Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a novel about race, history, ancestry, love and time, charting the course of two sisters torn apart in 18th century Africa through to the present day.

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

  Philyaw, Deesha,

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  Explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit

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  Bennett features identical twin sisters, who at age 16 run away from their small, black, 1950s Southern town and take different paths, one passing for white.

• The Water Dancer

  a Novel

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  A boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.