Recommended Reading

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• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

• Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

• Until We Reckon; Violence, Mass Incarceration, and A Road to Repair  - Danielle Sered

• We Do This ‘Til We Free Us; Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice - Mariame Kaba

• Freedom Dreams; The Black Radical Imagination - Robin D.G. Kelley

• Getting Tough; Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America - Julilly Kohler-Hausman

• Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

• Root Shock; How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts - Mindy Thompson Fullilove

• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story - Nicole Hannah-Jones

• The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

• The Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fanon

• Autobiography of Malcom X

• The Assassination of Fred Hampton - Jeffrey Haas

• How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi