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Do All White People Think the Same About Race? | Spectrum

2019

A group of white men and women talk about some tough topics including whiteness, privilege, and cultural appropriation.

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Sikhs Deserve the Dignity of Being a Statistic

A sea of reporters have asked many Sikh leaders and activists to quantify how many Sikhs had been targeted in hate crimes and murders since Sept. 11, 2001. Although I have helped chronicle hate crimes against the Sikh American community for more than a decade, I could not tell them.

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Valerie Kaur
2012
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‘What I Know’: A Black Woman’s Words

“Being Black overrides everything for me. Nothing is as thunderous in my life as racism. It seems to eclipse everything. It’s the repetitiveness of it. And the fact that it comes from every corner and nook.”

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Kristen Wise
2020
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A Buddhist Call to Action Against the Suffering of Racism

Buddhist teachings are grounded in principles of interdependence, non-separation, and reverence for life, supported by practices of mindfulness and compassion.

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Tara Brach
2016
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Facing My White Privilege

When Tara Brach came to recognize her own white privilege, it revealed blind spots. That changed her as a dharma teacher and leader. Artwork by Hildy Maze.

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Tara Brach
2016
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Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections

Rhonda Magee's essay Taking and Making Refuge in Racial [Whiteness] Awareness and Racial Justice Work is one of the essays in this collection that explores whiteness and racial injustice through the lens of Buddhism.

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Rhonda Magee
2019
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Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger

White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death.

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Lama Rod Owens
2020
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women—women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print (June Jordan). Library Journal.

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Alice Walker
2003
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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.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)
2010
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard (editors)
2002
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was a husband, a father, a preacher—and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the twentieth century’s most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (editor)
2001
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