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‘We Have to Be Better’: Megan Rapinoe and the Year of Victory and Advocacy

By Liz Robbins — 2019

With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.

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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Race Matters

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr.

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Cornel West
2017
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Lucille Clifton & Sonia Sanchez: Mirrors & Windows

Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.

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Lucille Clifton
2016
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Marianne Williamson on Reparations and Conscious Candidacy in Her Run for President in 2020

Marianne Williamson, Oprah’s spiritual adviser and presidential hopeful stops by to explain how there needs to be a change in people and politics. Williamson also talks about the ineffectiveness of ‘race based policies.’

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Marianne Williamson
2019
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), Vincent Harding (introduction)
2010
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a...

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adrienne maree brown
2025
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Dear Black Women, Let’s Talk About Healing - Angela Bowden - TEDxMSVUWomen

Beginning with a powerful poem, Angela talks about the power of acknowledging and healing from the “strength and resilience trauma” that black women normalize and carry, Realizing the black woman's burden and healing our caregivers and youth. Angela Bowden is a writer, speaker and activist.

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2020
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Showing Up for Conversations About Social Justice

It takes courage to reflect on your own privilege, but when teachers commit to vulnerability during class discussions, it builds respect and trust.

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2020
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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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The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation (Justice and Peacebuilding)

In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matter, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African-American experience in America.

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Fania E. Davis
2019
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