Our Intentions
- Become more comfortable talking about racism—get familiar with the language and learn more US history
- Reflect critically and deeply about our behavior, thoughts, experiences and complicity
- Generate ideas about how to change ourselves and society and become better allies
The book club is currently on pause.
Books Read:
- How to Be and Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
- The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- There There by Tommy Orange
- A Big Picture by Vanessa Nakate
- Being Heumann by Judith Heumann and the documentary Crip Camp
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- Black, White, and the Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant by Mashama Bailty and John O. Morisano
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalilia Harris
- Living Beyond Borders: Growing up Mexican in America
Edited by Margarita Longoria - The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
- On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Related Links
- Holiday guide/reading list
- Contribute to our growing book list
- Purchase books at African American-owned bookstores
- Or support your local bookstore by ordering through Bookshop.org