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How to Stop a Black Snake

By Louise Erdrich — 2016

The Black Snake is what Lakota people call the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Social Justice Belongs In Our Schools - Sydney Chaffee - TEDxBeaconStreet

For National Teacher of the Year Sydney Chaffee, teaching is a political act. She has been traveling the country urging all teachers to make social justice a central part of their mission. Talking to students about justice can't be a niche for certain kinds of teachers or certain schools.

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2018
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Food Justice

In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of American fast-food franchises...

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Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi
2025
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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

In June 2018, Donald Trump’s most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government.

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Jacob Soboroff
2025
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A Conversation with Native Americans on Race - Op-Docs

This week we bring you “A Conversation With Native Americans on Race,” the latest installment in our wide-ranging “Conversation on Race” series.

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2018
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R.

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T. R. Reid
2025
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Women, Race & Class

A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

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Angela Y. Davis
1983
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Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence...

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Marc Lamont Hill
2017
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced...

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Richard Rothstein
2018
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present.

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Carol Anderson
2018
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability.

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DeRay Mckesson
2025
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