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• Our Streets

  Portland's George Floyd Protests

  Stone, Sai,

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  Sai's photography captures the raw intensity and significance of the 2020 police brutality protests, amidst a backdrop of social unrest and a global pandemic. Through his lens, he skillfully navigates the chaotic and emotionally charged scenes,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Antifascist Tradition

  Fighting Back From Anti-lynching to Abolition

  Hope, Jeanelle K.,

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  The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W.E. B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reparations and Reparatory Justice

  Past, Present, and Future

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  Groundbreaking and innovative, this book chronicles the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the world. The contributors introduce the philosophical, political, economic, legal and ethical issues surrounding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Combee

  Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War

  Fields-Black, Edda L.,

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• Black Networked Resistance

  Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age

  Maragh-Lloyd, Raven, 1990-

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  Explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline.

• Fire Dreams

  Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

  McTighe, Laura, 1978-

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  Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise

• Force and Freedom

  Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

  Jackson, Kellie Carter,

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• To Build a Black Future

  the Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care

  Harris, Christopher Paul,

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  Author, activist, and professor Christopher Paul Harris crafts an engaging blend of the personal and the historical in tracing the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion to the present day, and argues for a new political culture that's responsive to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How We Can Live

  Principles of Black Lives Matter

  Garcia, Laleña,

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• Today Is Different

  Moua, Doua, 1987-

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• Little Black Lives Matter

  Dill, Khodi,

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• Reckoning

  Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

  Woodly, Deva R.,

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  An analysis of the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, its organizational structure and culture, and its strategies and tactics, while also laying out and contextualizing the social movement's unique political philosophy

• Call and Response

  the Story of Black Lives Matter

  Chambers, Veronica,

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• Becoming Abolitionists

  Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

  Purnell, Derecka,

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  Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition.

• Race Crazy

  BLM, 1619, and the Progressive Racism Movement

  Love, Charles,

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• Black Joy

  Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

  Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey M.,

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  With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

  Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

  Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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• To Walk About in Freedom

  the Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

  Emberton, Carole,

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• Black Ghost of Empire

  the Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

  Manjapra, Kris, 1978-

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• We Still Here

  Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility

  Hill, Marc Lamont,

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  In the midst of loss, death, and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means and how we take steps to get there. Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the pre-existing conditions that led us to this moment of upheaval, guiding us…Read moreRead more of this annotation