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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States

More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States

by Imani Perry

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga Yamattha-Taylor

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

by Marc Lamont Hill

Democracy Matters

Democracy Matters

by Cornell West

Democracy in Black: How Race Enslaves the American Soul

Democracy in Black: How Race Enslaves the American Soul

by Eddie Glaude

When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney Cooper

The Racial Contract

The Racial Contract

by Charles W. Mills

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

by Melissa Harris-Perry

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

by Ian Haney López

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

by Darryl Pickney

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Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen is Important

Kimberly Lawson, Vice

America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made it One

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times

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