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The Quiet Casualties of the Movement for Black Lives

By John Eligon — 2018

There is a quieter reality of activism: the mental and emotional hardship of the work, and the resulting stress and depression that sometimes make it difficult to even get out of bed. Self-care makes a difference.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman was a unique man—a black minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched the lives of countless people of all races, faiths, and cultures.

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Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture

This collection of writings, drawn from a wide variety of sources, reveals the intellectual depth and breadth of the author. The articles include political commentary, cultural critique, literary analysis, extended book reviews, and even a short story by Cornel West.

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Prophesy Deliverance!

In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life’s experiences.

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This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience

A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith is the story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movement in American history—the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

Juan Williams, Quinton Dixie

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Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day’s Loaves and Fishes tells the story of the movement that she cofounded in 1933, the Catholic Worker.

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Spirituality in Jewish Social Justice Activism: R' Shmuly Yanklowitz Interviews R' Danya Ruttenberg

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on the topic of "Spirituality in Jewish Social Justice Activism."

Danya Ruttenberg

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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)

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The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

“Every age has its teachers, who keep the eternal truths alive for all of us,” writes Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author of The Age of Miracles. “In the case of Andrew Harvey, the light he sheds is like a meteor burst across the inner sky.

Andrew Harvey, Caroline Myss (foreword)

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An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

In the mid-1920s, prompted by a “small, still voice” that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, Mohandas K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

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