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Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice

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By Charles Johnson — 2014

This wide and varied collection of essays, reviews, and short stories offers incisive views on politics, race, and Buddhism. Johnson notes that in his life the two activities that have anchored him and reinforce each other are creative production and spiritual practice. See more...

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The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation (Justice and Peacebuilding)

In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matter, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African-American experience in America.

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Fania E. Davis
2019
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We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“Organizing is both science and art.

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Mariame Kaba
2021
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Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America’s Toughest Communities

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.

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Jorja Leap
2016
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We’re All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free

Often called “The Convict’s Bible,” this book is also relevant and important to any spiritual seeker. Interfaith wisdom, divided into 3 sections: The Big View describes Bo and Sita Lozoff’s life of activism and spiritual exploration.

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Bo Lozoff, The Dalai Lama (foreword)
1998
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Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

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Nelson Mandela
1996
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Conversations with Myself

Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader.

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Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama (foreword)
2011
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history—and then go out and change it.

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Nelson Mandela
1995
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