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• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  “One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism.”

• When They Call You a Terrorist

  A Black Lives Matter Memoir

  bandele, asha

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  “Later, when I hear others dismissing our voices, our protest for equity, by saying All Lives Matter or Blue Lives Matter, I will wonder how many white Americans are dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night because they might fit a vague…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard

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  “Today’s residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Can't Breathe

  a Killing on Bay Street

  Taibbi, Matt,

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  "The police are blamed for these deaths, and often rightly so, but the highly confrontational, physically threatening strategies cops such as Daniel Pantaleo employ draw their power from the tacit approval of upscale white voters. Whether they admit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tears We Cannot Stop

  a Sermon to White America

  Dyson, Michael Eric,

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  “When black folk say “Black Lives Matter,” they are in search of simple recognition. That they are decent human beings, that they aren’t likely to commit crimes, that they’re reasonably smart. That they’re no more evil than the next person, that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solitary

  Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement : My Story of Transformation and Hope

  Woodfox, Albert,

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  “We need to admit to, confront, and change the racism in the American justice system that decides who is stopped by police, who is arrested, who is searched, who is charged, who is prosecuted, and who isn’t, as well as look at who receives longer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Citizen

  Rankine, Claudia

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  “Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn’t be an ambition.”

• Democracy in Black

  How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  “We have to become better people by fundamentally transforming the conditions of our living together. This will require setting aside our comforting illusions.”

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  “The only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.”

• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  “There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing, intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves.”

• What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

  Young, Damon

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  "White supremacy is so gargantuan and mundane that sometimes its existence and its proficiency can't be measured, addressed, or even seen without a stark change in perspective. It isn't like gravity. It is gravity. It is a ceaseless pressure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black and the Blue

  a Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement

  Horace, Matthew,

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  "It’s not that we shouldn’t investigate “suspicious” people, but what makes them suspicious?”

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  “But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Still Here

  Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

  Brown, Austin Channing,

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  “Our only chance at dismantling racial injustice is being more curious about its origins than we are worried about our comfort. It's not a comfortable conversation for any of us. It is risky and messy. It is haunting work to recall the sins of our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle

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  “The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.”

• White Rage

  the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)

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  “The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem; rather, it is blackness with ambition, with drive, with purpose, with aspirations, and with demands for full and equal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  “If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”

• They Can't Kill Us All

  Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

  Lowery, Wesley,

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  “Insisting that the burden of proof rests with the body of the slain black man or woman is to argue that black life, on its own, does not matter.”

• "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

  and Other Conversations About Race

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel,

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  “While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.”

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin J.,

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  “The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.”