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• Black in Blues

  How a Color Tells the Story of My People

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  "A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue -- and its fascinating role in Black history and culture -- from National Book Award winner Imani Perry"

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary Notes

  Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth,

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  A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores with immense care profound questions about loss, and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

  a Novel

  Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-

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  The 2020 National Book Awardnominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic - an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of 'Homegoing', 'Sing, Unburied, Sing', and 'The Water Dancer' - that chronicles the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel,

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  "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Long Road Home

  on Blackness and Belonging

  Thompson, Debra (Debra E.),

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  "From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America."

• In the Light of Dawn

  the History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community

  Carter, Marie, 1953-

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  "Illuminating two hundred years of lost Black history through the lens of an iconic abolitionist settlement. In the Light of Dawn shares the compelling story of how the iconic Dawn Settlement -- now largely within the boundaries of Dresden, Ontario…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Defund

  Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All

  Hudson, Sandy, 1985-

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  "Time and again we see police respond to minor calls with escalation, wrongful arrests, even murder. Reform programs are often poorly implemented and their impacts short-lived. Calls to "defund" the police have rung out across the nation, yet the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsettling the Great White North

  Black Canadian History

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  "An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada's past. The book considers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unlike the Rest

  a Doctor's Story

  Oriuwa, Chika Stacy,

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  In this personal story of becoming, belonging and being seen, a psychiatry resident pulls back the curtain on the journey to becoming a doctor. From childhood, Chika Oriuwa dreamed of being a doctor. She knew that she was destined to wear the white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Boys Like Me

  Confrontations With Race, Identity, and Belonging

  Morris, Matthew R.,

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  "Startingly honest, bracing personal essays, from educator and writer Matthew Morris, that explore the intersection of race, Black masculinity, hip-hop culture, and education. This is an examination of the parts that construct my Black character;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beautiful Dream

  a Memoir

  Hutchinson, Atiba,

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  "The Beautiful Dream is the story of countless Canadians, who strive and scrape for a seemingly unreachable dream -- until their fingertips finally graze the surface. Atiba's journey mirrors the progression of Canadian soccer, and the story of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her

  on Race, Community, and Black Women in Hockey

  Hess, R. Renee,

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  "From the founder of Black Girl Hockey Club, a collection of deeply insightful and piercing essays that aims to shed light on the history of Black excellence--in all forms--in hockey, and how we can all do better when it comes to recognizing--and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Loyalists

  Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

  Whitehead, Ruth Holmes,

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  "A comprehensive history of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia following the American Revolution from one of the province's leading historians"