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CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The best parts reflect our own reality, the constant footnotes reminding you this isn’t all that far across the fiction/nonfiction line.
Feb 15, 20242 min read


52+2 Deck Draw #5: THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS by Michelle Alexander ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“It has been an astonishing decade. Everything and nothing has changed.”
Feb 6, 20232 min read


THE COLOR OF LAW: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SEGREGATED AMERICA by Richard Rothstein ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It’s dense, it’s thorough, and it’s drastically important.
Aug 23, 20202 min read


THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Words that sound so powerful today, but sting knowing they were meant to resonate 50 years ago.
Jul 6, 20201 min read


WHITE RAGE: THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH OF OUR RACIAL DIVIDE by Carol Anderson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This book will enrage you. And it should.
Jun 29, 20202 min read
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