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Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

By Tanya A. Christian — 2021

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. But what they could not snatch in the evening hours of May 31 into June 1 was the tenacity, the resilience, instilled in the people of Greenwood.

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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews—including her first and last—Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a “national treasure”) details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of...

Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni

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The Origin of Others

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging.

Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates (foreword)

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Muhammad Ali—Dropping Knowledge (1974)

Muhammad Ali speaks with David Frost in this 1974 interview.

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Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White

Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld

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Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America

Nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures-Maya Angelou, Bill Bradley, Harry Belafonte, Patricia Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Washington, James Forbes, and Haki Madhubuti-talk with Cornel West about their political awareness, art and...

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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies.

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Book Talk with Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”

Ibram X. Kendi is the author of "How to Be an Antiracist." He discusses his recent work with Eugene Scott, a political reporter for the Washington Post’s "The Fix". The two spoke as part of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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The Difference Between Being “Not Racist” and Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi

There is no such thing as being “not racist,” says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi.

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019

Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span.

Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain

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Treating Racial Trauma with Psychedelics; Addressing Mental Health Disparities | Think Supersystemic

Dr. Monnica T. Williams discusses her work in assessing racial trauma and mental health disparities in African-American communities.

Monnica Williams

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