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• Anarchism and the Black Revolution

  the Definitive Edition

  Kom'Boa Ervin, Lorenzo,

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  May 2022----------A powerful – even startling – book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rifqa

  El-Kurd, Mohammed,

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  May 2022 selection---------Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Is Not a Country

  Elhillo, Safia,

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  April 2022 selection---------"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sobbing School

  Bennett, Joshua (Poet)

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  April 2022 selection----------"Selected by Eugene Gloria as a winner of the National Poetry Series The Sobbing School, Joshua Bennett's mesmerizing debut collection of poetry, presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of Blood and Bone

  Adeyemi, Tomi

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  March 2022 selection---------In Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salvation

  Black People and Love

  hooks, bell, 1952-2021

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  February 2022 selection----------Bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking, critical insight about Black people…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nation on No Map

  Black Anarchism and Abolition

  Anderson, William C.

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  February 2022 selection---------A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.

• Becoming Abolitionists

  Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

  Purnell, Derecka

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  Jan 2022 selection---------For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Live From Death Row

  Abu-Jamal, Mumia,

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  Jan 2022 selection---------Collection of prison writings, including unreleased National Public Radio commentaries, by journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Pennsylvania death row inmate who contends he was unjustly convicted and sentenced to death for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spook Who Sat by the Door

  Greenlee, Sam, 1930-2014

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  Dec 2021----------Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters." As a story of one man's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Slaves, Indian Masters

  A Guidebook

  Krauthamer, Barbara

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  November 2021 selection----------From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As Long as Grass Grows

  the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock

  Gilio-Whitaker, Dina,

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  November 2021 selection----------"Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Sister, the Serial Killer

  a Novel

  Braithwaite, Oyinkan.,

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  October 2021----------Nigeria. Korede's sister, Ayoola, is the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bloodchild and Other Stories

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  October 2021 selection---------Bloodchild and Other Stories is renowned author Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work and features the Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories "Bloodchild" and "Speech Sounds." These works of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Skin I'm in

  Flake, Sharon

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  September 2021 selection--------Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

• Heavy

  An American Memoir

  Laymon, Kiese

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  September 2021 selection---------"Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  X, Malcolm, 1925-1965

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  August 2021 selection---------Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Lorraine

  the Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  August 2021 selection--------Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homegoing

  a Novel

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  July 2021 selection----------"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hip Hop Wars

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

  Rose, Tricia

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  June 2021 selection----------How hip hop shapes our conversations about race--and how race influences our consideration of hip hop Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop…Read moreRead more of this annotation