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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first became immersed in the history of the 761st Battalion through family friend Leonard “Smitty” Smith, a veteran of the unit.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton

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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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The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports

Part play-by-play, part op-ed, The Game Is Not a Game is an illuminating and unflinching examination of the good and evil in the sports industry.

Robert Scoop Jackson

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Indentured: The Battle to End the Exploitation of College Athletes

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?” In the four years since Joe Nocera...

Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss

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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare

This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare.

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A Black Women’s History of the United States

A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to...

Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.

Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), Vincent Harding (introduction)

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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.

Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (editor)

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid...

Isabel Wilkerson

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Capitalism: A Ghost Story

From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India.

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