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An Interview with Alice Walker

By Alice Walker — 2018

In this BBC interview, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Alice Walker, describes a childhood experience and the thoughts it triggered about poverty, rage, oppression, sexism, and misogyny that has influenced her writing.

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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual.

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Rebecca Solnit
2008
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Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence...

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Marc Lamont Hill
2017
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

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Angela Y. Davis (Authors), Cornel West (Preface)
2016
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color.

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James Forman Jr.
2018
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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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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageAn individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.

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Michelle Alexander, Cornel West (foreword)
2020
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time.

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Rebecca Solnit
2018
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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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