Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson is the self-effacing author of this terrific book about the legal war he has waged against cruel, unjust sentencing practices in this
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier
A fresh and bold argument for revamping our standards of “merit” and a clear blueprint for creating collaborative education models that strengthen our
Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles by Bert Ashe
In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as
Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy In The Post Civil Rights Imagination by Salamisha Tillet
More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United