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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
Mixing memoir, civil rights history, and polemic, this blunt litany by Flowers delivers a call to action for all concerned about sustainable solutions to the shamefully inadequate environmental infrastructure, policies, and practices in the United States.
Julian Bond’s Time To Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Mixing reminiscence and analysis of the long struggle against white supremacy, Bond’s lessons provide general readers and scholars alike penetrating studies of ideals, motivations, compromises, suffering, and sacrifice that won Blacks’ release from the worst of racist Southern pathology. Essential reading.
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Tracing the growth of Louverture from revolutionary leader to mythic figure, this engrossing read reveals and recovers the historic place both he and the country of Haiti deserve to occupy in the story of the Atlantic world’s creation and re-creation.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
This gripping read, essential for anyone interested in the man or his times, delivers penetrating explanations and fresh insights into previously unexamined dimensions of Malcolm X and his becoming and being El-hajj Malik El Shabazz within the context of Black life. Highest recommendation.
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Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama
For those interested in show business memoirs, both Young and the Restless fans and those unfamiliar with the series.
Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America
This foray into the ideas that shape and sustain U.S. law and society offers significant inroads for readers interested in the progress and pitfalls of the U.S. criminal justice system, and how incidental and intentional actions affect historical developments.
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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
This is not an easy read for those wanting easy answers about race. Instead, it is a book about moral reckoning, owning up to failed choices, and making an effort to choose better ones. For all interested in uncovering how we got here, and how much further we have to go.
Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Especially for students of urban planning and public policy but also for those seriously interested in equity and social change in America, this work combines extraordinarily readable, well-documented data analysis with a people-oriented call for activism.
Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
For readers intent on social change, Bristow’s chronicle of events and analysis of developments, particularly the contest over the shootings’ meaning, palpably demonstrate how much historical memory matters.
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