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The Fire Next Time
Richard Wright
Money
The Great Migration
Grief
The Fire Next Time
In Democracy in Black, scholar and public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude Jr. offers a piercing diagnosis of the moral and political failures at the heart of American democracy. The book argues that despite formal equality under the law, the United Stat...
Democracy in Black: How Race Enslaves US
"The Fire Next Time" is a powerful and influential book by James Baldwin, published in 1963. It consists of two essays that explore the themes of race, religion, and social justice in America. The first essay, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew,"...
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
If you want the pure and true history of America, you will buy this book
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, published in 1976, is a generational chronicle that follows one family from 18th-century Gambia to 20th-century America.
Haley begins with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth captured in 1767, shipped t...
Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Haley
Their Eyes Were Watching God reads like someone finally handing Janie Crawford the microphone after years of other people speaking for her.
Zora Neale Hurston published it in 1937, and the novel follows Janie through three marriages in early 20th-ce...
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel - Amazon.com
In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson argues that many of America’s racial inequalities are best understood through the lens of caste rather than race alone. Drawing comparisons among the United States, India, and Nazi Germany, s...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Richard Wright
Native Son still reads like a cold wind off Lake Michigan in January. It doesn't comfort you, and it wasn't written to.
Richard Wright published it in 1940, and 86 years later the novel hasn't softened. It follows Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old Black ...
Native Son - Wright, Richard: Books - Amazon.com
Money
I found Griftopia to be a compelling and provocative examination of how Wall Street, politics, and corporate power became increasingly intertwined in the years surrounding the 2008 financial crisis. Matt Taibbi writes with sharp wit and relentless in...
Griftopia by Matt Taibbi - Porchlight Book Company
The Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns left a lasting impression on me because Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the Great Migration through the real lives of Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, George Starling, and Robert Foster. Rather than feeling like a history book, i...
The Warmth of Other Suns: America's Epic Story
Grief
My mother was unexpectedly taken on November 16, 2021. The Payne will always be there. A person on their own grief journey gave me this book. It did not nor does it take the pain away but for me, it provided some peace. I hope it does for you.
Grief One Day at a Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal ...
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