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Racial Discrimination & imagination creativity

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Misty Copeland—Breaking Representation Barriers in Ballet | The Daily Social Distancing Show

Misty Copeland talks about paving the way for more diversity in ballet, writing the children’s book “Bunheads,” collaborating with Prince and keeping dance alive during the pandemic.

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Nobody Knows My Name

Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays—"passionate, probing, controversial" (The Atlantic)—examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of...

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A Conversation with Alice Walker

The bestselling author discusses her role as a global citizen and her connection with nature, history, and activism

American Libraries

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The Devil Finds Work

Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics.

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A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde

In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”

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The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization.

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It’s Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980

“An important and groundbreaking collection, bringing together important voices and biographical context illustrating four decades of Black perspectives on everything from daily life to the Civil Rights Movement.

Dan Nadel (editor), Ronald Wimberly (afterword), Charles Johnson (contributor), Kerry James Marshall (designer)

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Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America

Over the past half-century, the U.S. has seen profound demographic and cultural change. But racial progress still seems distant. After the faith of the civil rights movement, the fervor of multiculturalism, and even the brief euphoria of a “post-racial” moment, we remain a nation divided.

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On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African-Americans all over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Nikki Giovanni Has Made Peace With Her Hate

“The door is open,” Nikki Giovanni told the interviewer, “and if I’m saying something that you don’t like, you can go out the door. Because I’m going to say what I think I should say.”

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