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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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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.

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Howard Bryant
2025
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests.

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Heather McGhee
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination.

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Toni Morrison
1992
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Toni Morrison Beautifully Answers an "Illegitimate" Question on Race (Jan. 19, 1998) - Charlie Rose

In 1998, Charlie asked Toni Morrison about a question a journalist had once posed to her: "Can you imagine writing a novel not centered around race?" This is her amazing response.

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Toni Morrison
2015
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Spiritual Bypassing and Antiracism in Yoga

It’s not enough for us to simply practice yoga, we also have to live yoga and seva.

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2020
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Why Christianity Is Perceived as the White Man’s Religion - Olivia Pierce - TEDxEdina

Unconscious bias and lack of racial diversity in visual representation causes damage in schools, communities, workplaces and places of worship across the globe. It creates a divide between those who see themselves as empowered, and those who don’t.

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2018
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Can Latinos Benefit from White Privilege? - The Kat Call - Season 2 Ep 2 - mitú

White privilege, that’s just a Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber thing right? Wrong! Kat brings insight on how some Latinos can actually benefit from white privilege and how to use our privilege for good.

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2018
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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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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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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.

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Ijeoma Oluo
2020
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