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Breaking the Color Line: 1940 to 1946

By Library of Congress

In 1945, the Jim Crow policies of baseball changed forever when Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Robinson into the major leagues in 1947.

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Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy—A Trip to the Grocery Store

In this story from “Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity,” a film from World Trust, author and educator Dr. Joy DeGruy shares how her sister-in-law uses her white privilege to stand up to systemic racial inequity.

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2013
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history,...

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Clint Smith III
2021
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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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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity.

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Elizabeth Martínez
2025
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X.

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Ibram X. Kendi
2025
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society...

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad
2025
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color.

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James Forman Jr.
2018
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about.

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Ijeoma Oluo
2025
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I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man.

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Austin Channing Brown
2018
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Bullwhip Days—The Slaves Remember: An Oral History

In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves.

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James Mellon (editor)
2002
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