<\/h4>\nIn our collections<\/h4>\nAntiracist reading<\/em><\/h5>\n\n- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/strong><\/a> by Ibram X. Kendi<\/li>\n
- How to Be an Antiracist<\/strong><\/a>, by Ibram X. Kendi<\/li>\n
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?<\/strong><\/a> by Beverly Daniel Tatum<\/li>\n
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/strong><\/a> by Michelle Alexander (Author), Karen Chilton<\/li>\n
- Tears we Cannot Stop<\/strong><\/a>, by Michael Eric Dyson<\/li>\n
- We Were Eight Years in Power<\/strong><\/a> by Ta Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n
- Between the World and Me<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Ta Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son<\/strong><\/a> by Tim Wise<\/li>\n
- White Fragility<\/strong><\/a> by Robin DiAngelo<\/li>\n
- Race Matters, 25th Anniversary<\/strong><\/a> by Cornel West<\/li>\n
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race<\/strong><\/a>, edited by Jesmyn Ward<\/li>\n
- Citizen: An American Lyric<\/strong><\/a> by Claudia Rankine<\/li>\n
- Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces<\/strong><\/a> by Radley Balko<\/li>\n
- Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?<\/a><\/strong> by Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/li>\n
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir<\/a> <\/strong>by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele<\/li>\n
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History<\/a><\/strong> by Jeanne Theoharis<\/li>\n
- How We Fight White Supremacy<\/strong><\/a> by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin<\/li>\n
- On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope<\/strong><\/a> by Deray McKesson<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon<\/li>\n
- The Color of Law<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Rothstein<\/li>\n
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor<\/strong><\/a> by Layla F Saad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
Black authors, thinkers, and creators<\/em><\/h5>\n“Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction Is a Start. But Don\u2019t Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction,”<\/a> Jasmine Guillory, writing for Time Magazine<\/p>\nN.K. Jemisin<\/strong><\/div>\nOne of the most important writers working today, you simply fall in to Jemisin’s worlds, care desperately for her characters, and live<\/em> alongside them as they search, love, struggle and survive. The first author to win the Hugo Award (honoring the best of science fiction and fantasy) three times consecutively, for each volume in her Broken Earth<\/em> trilogy.<\/div>\n\n- How Long Til Black Future Month?<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- The City We Became<\/a><\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOctavia Butler<\/strong><\/div>\nSpare and haunting, like a good friend telling you a strange true story by the fireside. Her writing about<\/em> writing (including essays in Bloodchild<\/em>) is just as inspiring as her fiction.<\/div>\n
\n- Bloodchild and Other Stories<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Kindred<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nJasmine Guillory<\/strong><\/div>\nGuillory writes modern romances you just want to hug. Smart, sexy, and so much fun.<\/div>\n
\n- The Wedding Party<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Royal Holiday<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nToni Morrison\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTo read Toni Morrison, through her fiction or her non-fiction, is to encounter a great mind, and to have your own mind made richer.<\/div>\n
\n- Sula<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- The Source of Self Regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMargo Jefferson\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTheater critic and culture writer Jefferson’s memoir, about growing up in the 1950s in the upper crust of Black Chicago society–her father was head of pediatrics at a hospital, her mother was a socialite–is as beautifully written as it is illuminating about privilege and race.<\/div>\n
\n- Negroland: A memoir<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nColson Whitehead<\/strong><\/div>\nWhether he’s writing about zombies, the fleeting summer vacations of youth, elevator repair, or putting a postmodern spin on the Underground Railroad, Whitehead is always inventive, always humane, always himself.<\/div>\n
\n- Sag Harbor<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Zone One<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Intuitionist<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Underground Railroad <\/em><\/a>(Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Films and documentaries<\/em><\/h5>\nOn Kanopy<\/div>\n\n\n- I Am Not Your Negro,<\/a> written by James Baldwin, dir. by Raoul Peck<\/li>\n
- Moonlight<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Within Our Gates<\/a>, dir. by Oscar Micheaux<\/li>\n
- Daughters of the Dust<\/a>, dir. by Julie Dash<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the catalog<\/p>\n
\n- Boycott<\/a>, Directed by Clark Johnson<\/li>\n
- Do the Right Thing<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Fences<\/a>, written by August Wilson, dir. by Denzel Washigton<\/li>\n
- Fruitvale Station<\/a>, dir. by Ryan Coogler<\/li>\n
- Get Out<\/a>, dir. by Jordan Peele<\/li>\n
- If Beale Street Could Talk<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Malcolm X<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Selma<\/a>, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Available via Inter-Library Loan (email interlibraryloan@bapl.org to request)<\/p>\n
\n- Blackout, dir. by Jerry LaMothe<\/li>\n
- Middle of Nowhere, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n
- Pariah, dir. by Dee Rees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
Past programs<\/h4>\n
The Roots of Anti-Racism: A Reading Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 4-session reading group offered in partnership with Lehigh University. This group invites community members to examine the historical roots of anti-racist thought and action. We will discuss poetry, essays, speeches, and personal narratives by Black writers of the 19th century through today. Including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, we will learn together about the roots of anti-racism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2021_Roots-of-Anti-Racism.jpg?resize=473%2C612&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Courageous Conversations: Stamped from the Beginning<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 5-month discussion series focused on Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- Watch conversations from the series on BAPL’s Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CC_Stamped_Dec.png?resize=527%2C276&ssl=1\")
<\/a><\/p>\nDialogues on Racial Justice: An Introductory Workshop Series on Issues of Systemic Racism in the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 4-week workshop covering how racism is constructed and maintained, historical contexts of systemic oppression and police brutality, and the progress towards equitable reform for restorative justice. Taught by Linda Wiggins-Chavis; thank you, Ms. Wiggins-Chavis!<\/li>\n
- If you are interested in hearing more about this program or contacting Linda Wiggins-Chavis, please email Janine at jcarambot@bapl.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020_Racial-Justice-Dialogues-1-1.jpg?resize=443%2C627&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n
\n- Read about the first session, Race and Racism: The Construct of Race and How Racism is Maintained<\/a>, in the Southsider<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Southsider.png?resize=469%2C255&ssl=1\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Watch the third session, Police Brutality: A Historical Perspective,<\/a> on BAPL’s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dialogues-on-Racial-Justice-1.png?resize=482%2C273&ssl=1\")
<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Community suggested resources from Dialogues on Social Justice<\/em><\/strong>\n
\n- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/strong> <\/a>by James H. Cone<\/li>\n
- The Color of Law<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Rothstein (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard (documentary)<\/li>\n
- \u2018The Strange Story Of The Man Behind Strange Fruit<\/a>\u2019
\nby Elizabeth Blair for NPR Morning Edition (2012)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Philadelphia Race Riot<\/a> (1918)\u2019
\nby Will Mack for Blackpast.org (2017)<\/li>\n- \u2018Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer<\/a>\u2019<\/li>\n
- \u2018MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood<\/a>\u2019
\nStuff You Should Know podcast episode (2019)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Long Hot Summer<\/a>\u2019
\nNPR\u2019s Throughline podcast episode (2020)<\/li>\n- Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Map<\/a>
\nACLU.org (accessed July 2020)<\/li>\n- Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws PDF – State by State Breakdown <\/a>
\nBrennanCenter.org (updated June 2020)<\/li>\n- The Childhood Opportunity Gap Expanded Data Visualizations <\/a>
\nDiversitydatakids.org (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
BAPL Virtual Film Club for July 2020: The Last Black Man in San Francisco <\/em>(Available to stream on Kanopy<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Antiracist reading<\/em><\/h5>\n\n- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/strong><\/a> by Ibram X. Kendi<\/li>\n
- How to Be an Antiracist<\/strong><\/a>, by Ibram X. Kendi<\/li>\n
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?<\/strong><\/a> by Beverly Daniel Tatum<\/li>\n
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/strong><\/a> by Michelle Alexander (Author), Karen Chilton<\/li>\n
- Tears we Cannot Stop<\/strong><\/a>, by Michael Eric Dyson<\/li>\n
- We Were Eight Years in Power<\/strong><\/a> by Ta Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n
- Between the World and Me<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by Ta Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son<\/strong><\/a> by Tim Wise<\/li>\n
- White Fragility<\/strong><\/a> by Robin DiAngelo<\/li>\n
- Race Matters, 25th Anniversary<\/strong><\/a> by Cornel West<\/li>\n
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race<\/strong><\/a>, edited by Jesmyn Ward<\/li>\n
- Citizen: An American Lyric<\/strong><\/a> by Claudia Rankine<\/li>\n
- Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces<\/strong><\/a> by Radley Balko<\/li>\n
- Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?<\/a><\/strong> by Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/li>\n
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir<\/a> <\/strong>by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele<\/li>\n
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History<\/a><\/strong> by Jeanne Theoharis<\/li>\n
- How We Fight White Supremacy<\/strong><\/a> by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin<\/li>\n
- On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope<\/strong><\/a> by Deray McKesson<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon<\/li>\n
- The Color of Law<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Rothstein<\/li>\n
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor<\/strong><\/a> by Layla F Saad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
Black authors, thinkers, and creators<\/em><\/h5>\n“Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction Is a Start. But Don\u2019t Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction,”<\/a> Jasmine Guillory, writing for Time Magazine<\/p>\nN.K. Jemisin<\/strong><\/div>\nOne of the most important writers working today, you simply fall in to Jemisin’s worlds, care desperately for her characters, and live<\/em> alongside them as they search, love, struggle and survive. The first author to win the Hugo Award (honoring the best of science fiction and fantasy) three times consecutively, for each volume in her Broken Earth<\/em> trilogy.<\/div>\n\n- How Long Til Black Future Month?<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- The City We Became<\/a><\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOctavia Butler<\/strong><\/div>\nSpare and haunting, like a good friend telling you a strange true story by the fireside. Her writing about<\/em> writing (including essays in Bloodchild<\/em>) is just as inspiring as her fiction.<\/div>\n
\n- Bloodchild and Other Stories<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Kindred<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nJasmine Guillory<\/strong><\/div>\nGuillory writes modern romances you just want to hug. Smart, sexy, and so much fun.<\/div>\n
\n- The Wedding Party<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Royal Holiday<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nToni Morrison\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTo read Toni Morrison, through her fiction or her non-fiction, is to encounter a great mind, and to have your own mind made richer.<\/div>\n
\n- Sula<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- The Source of Self Regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMargo Jefferson\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTheater critic and culture writer Jefferson’s memoir, about growing up in the 1950s in the upper crust of Black Chicago society–her father was head of pediatrics at a hospital, her mother was a socialite–is as beautifully written as it is illuminating about privilege and race.<\/div>\n
\n- Negroland: A memoir<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nColson Whitehead<\/strong><\/div>\nWhether he’s writing about zombies, the fleeting summer vacations of youth, elevator repair, or putting a postmodern spin on the Underground Railroad, Whitehead is always inventive, always humane, always himself.<\/div>\n
\n- Sag Harbor<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Zone One<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Intuitionist<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Underground Railroad <\/em><\/a>(Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Films and documentaries<\/em><\/h5>\nOn Kanopy<\/div>\n\n\n- I Am Not Your Negro,<\/a> written by James Baldwin, dir. by Raoul Peck<\/li>\n
- Moonlight<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Within Our Gates<\/a>, dir. by Oscar Micheaux<\/li>\n
- Daughters of the Dust<\/a>, dir. by Julie Dash<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the catalog<\/p>\n
\n- Boycott<\/a>, Directed by Clark Johnson<\/li>\n
- Do the Right Thing<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Fences<\/a>, written by August Wilson, dir. by Denzel Washigton<\/li>\n
- Fruitvale Station<\/a>, dir. by Ryan Coogler<\/li>\n
- Get Out<\/a>, dir. by Jordan Peele<\/li>\n
- If Beale Street Could Talk<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Malcolm X<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Selma<\/a>, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Available via Inter-Library Loan (email interlibraryloan@bapl.org to request)<\/p>\n
\n- Blackout, dir. by Jerry LaMothe<\/li>\n
- Middle of Nowhere, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n
- Pariah, dir. by Dee Rees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
Past programs<\/h4>\n
The Roots of Anti-Racism: A Reading Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 4-session reading group offered in partnership with Lehigh University. This group invites community members to examine the historical roots of anti-racist thought and action. We will discuss poetry, essays, speeches, and personal narratives by Black writers of the 19th century through today. Including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, we will learn together about the roots of anti-racism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Courageous Conversations: Stamped from the Beginning<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 5-month discussion series focused on Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- Watch conversations from the series on BAPL’s Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDialogues on Racial Justice: An Introductory Workshop Series on Issues of Systemic Racism in the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 4-week workshop covering how racism is constructed and maintained, historical contexts of systemic oppression and police brutality, and the progress towards equitable reform for restorative justice. Taught by Linda Wiggins-Chavis; thank you, Ms. Wiggins-Chavis!<\/li>\n
- If you are interested in hearing more about this program or contacting Linda Wiggins-Chavis, please email Janine at jcarambot@bapl.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
\n- Read about the first session, Race and Racism: The Construct of Race and How Racism is Maintained<\/a>, in the Southsider<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Watch the third session, Police Brutality: A Historical Perspective,<\/a> on BAPL’s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Community suggested resources from Dialogues on Social Justice<\/em><\/strong>\n
\n- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/strong> <\/a>by James H. Cone<\/li>\n
- The Color of Law<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Rothstein (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard (documentary)<\/li>\n
- \u2018The Strange Story Of The Man Behind Strange Fruit<\/a>\u2019
\nby Elizabeth Blair for NPR Morning Edition (2012)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Philadelphia Race Riot<\/a> (1918)\u2019
\nby Will Mack for Blackpast.org (2017)<\/li>\n- \u2018Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer<\/a>\u2019<\/li>\n
- \u2018MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood<\/a>\u2019
\nStuff You Should Know podcast episode (2019)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Long Hot Summer<\/a>\u2019
\nNPR\u2019s Throughline podcast episode (2020)<\/li>\n- Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Map<\/a>
\nACLU.org (accessed July 2020)<\/li>\n- Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws PDF – State by State Breakdown <\/a>
\nBrennanCenter.org (updated June 2020)<\/li>\n- The Childhood Opportunity Gap Expanded Data Visualizations <\/a>
\nDiversitydatakids.org (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
BAPL Virtual Film Club for July 2020: The Last Black Man in San Francisco <\/em>(Available to stream on Kanopy<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Black authors, thinkers, and creators<\/em><\/h5>\n“Reading Anti-Racist Nonfiction Is a Start. But Don\u2019t Underestimate the Power of Black Fiction,”<\/a> Jasmine Guillory, writing for Time Magazine<\/p>\nN.K. Jemisin<\/strong><\/div>\nOne of the most important writers working today, you simply fall in to Jemisin’s worlds, care desperately for her characters, and live<\/em> alongside them as they search, love, struggle and survive. The first author to win the Hugo Award (honoring the best of science fiction and fantasy) three times consecutively, for each volume in her Broken Earth<\/em> trilogy.<\/div>\n\n- How Long Til Black Future Month?<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- The City We Became<\/a><\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOctavia Butler<\/strong><\/div>\nSpare and haunting, like a good friend telling you a strange true story by the fireside. Her writing about<\/em> writing (including essays in Bloodchild<\/em>) is just as inspiring as her fiction.<\/div>\n
\n- Bloodchild and Other Stories<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Kindred<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nJasmine Guillory<\/strong><\/div>\nGuillory writes modern romances you just want to hug. Smart, sexy, and so much fun.<\/div>\n
\n- The Wedding Party<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Royal Holiday<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nToni Morrison\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTo read Toni Morrison, through her fiction or her non-fiction, is to encounter a great mind, and to have your own mind made richer.<\/div>\n
\n- Sula<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- The Source of Self Regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMargo Jefferson\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTheater critic and culture writer Jefferson’s memoir, about growing up in the 1950s in the upper crust of Black Chicago society–her father was head of pediatrics at a hospital, her mother was a socialite–is as beautifully written as it is illuminating about privilege and race.<\/div>\n
\n- Negroland: A memoir<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nColson Whitehead<\/strong><\/div>\nWhether he’s writing about zombies, the fleeting summer vacations of youth, elevator repair, or putting a postmodern spin on the Underground Railroad, Whitehead is always inventive, always humane, always himself.<\/div>\n
\n- Sag Harbor<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Zone One<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Intuitionist<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Underground Railroad <\/em><\/a>(Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Films and documentaries<\/em><\/h5>\nOn Kanopy<\/div>\n\n\n- I Am Not Your Negro,<\/a> written by James Baldwin, dir. by Raoul Peck<\/li>\n
- Moonlight<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Within Our Gates<\/a>, dir. by Oscar Micheaux<\/li>\n
- Daughters of the Dust<\/a>, dir. by Julie Dash<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the catalog<\/p>\n
\n- Boycott<\/a>, Directed by Clark Johnson<\/li>\n
- Do the Right Thing<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Fences<\/a>, written by August Wilson, dir. by Denzel Washigton<\/li>\n
- Fruitvale Station<\/a>, dir. by Ryan Coogler<\/li>\n
- Get Out<\/a>, dir. by Jordan Peele<\/li>\n
- If Beale Street Could Talk<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Malcolm X<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Selma<\/a>, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Available via Inter-Library Loan (email interlibraryloan@bapl.org to request)<\/p>\n
\n- Blackout, dir. by Jerry LaMothe<\/li>\n
- Middle of Nowhere, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n
- Pariah, dir. by Dee Rees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
Past programs<\/h4>\n
The Roots of Anti-Racism: A Reading Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 4-session reading group offered in partnership with Lehigh University. This group invites community members to examine the historical roots of anti-racist thought and action. We will discuss poetry, essays, speeches, and personal narratives by Black writers of the 19th century through today. Including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, we will learn together about the roots of anti-racism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Courageous Conversations: Stamped from the Beginning<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 5-month discussion series focused on Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- Watch conversations from the series on BAPL’s Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDialogues on Racial Justice: An Introductory Workshop Series on Issues of Systemic Racism in the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- A 4-week workshop covering how racism is constructed and maintained, historical contexts of systemic oppression and police brutality, and the progress towards equitable reform for restorative justice. Taught by Linda Wiggins-Chavis; thank you, Ms. Wiggins-Chavis!<\/li>\n
- If you are interested in hearing more about this program or contacting Linda Wiggins-Chavis, please email Janine at jcarambot@bapl.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n
\n- Read about the first session, Race and Racism: The Construct of Race and How Racism is Maintained<\/a>, in the Southsider<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\n- Watch the third session, Police Brutality: A Historical Perspective,<\/a> on BAPL’s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Community suggested resources from Dialogues on Social Justice<\/em><\/strong>\n
\n- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/strong> <\/a>by James H. Cone<\/li>\n
- The Color of Law<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Rothstein (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard (documentary)<\/li>\n
- \u2018The Strange Story Of The Man Behind Strange Fruit<\/a>\u2019
\nby Elizabeth Blair for NPR Morning Edition (2012)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Philadelphia Race Riot<\/a> (1918)\u2019
\nby Will Mack for Blackpast.org (2017)<\/li>\n- \u2018Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer<\/a>\u2019<\/li>\n
- \u2018MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood<\/a>\u2019
\nStuff You Should Know podcast episode (2019)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Long Hot Summer<\/a>\u2019
\nNPR\u2019s Throughline podcast episode (2020)<\/li>\n- Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Map<\/a>
\nACLU.org (accessed July 2020)<\/li>\n- Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws PDF – State by State Breakdown <\/a>
\nBrennanCenter.org (updated June 2020)<\/li>\n- The Childhood Opportunity Gap Expanded Data Visualizations <\/a>
\nDiversitydatakids.org (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
BAPL Virtual Film Club for July 2020: The Last Black Man in San Francisco <\/em>(Available to stream on Kanopy<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- How Long Til Black Future Month?<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- The City We Became<\/a><\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Octavia Butler<\/strong><\/div>\nSpare and haunting, like a good friend telling you a strange true story by the fireside. Her writing about<\/em> writing (including essays in Bloodchild<\/em>) is just as inspiring as her fiction.<\/div>\n- \n
- Bloodchild and Other Stories<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Kindred<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Jasmine Guillory<\/strong><\/div>\nGuillory writes modern romances you just want to hug. Smart, sexy, and so much fun.<\/div>\n- \n
- The Wedding Party<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Royal Holiday<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Toni Morrison\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTo read Toni Morrison, through her fiction or her non-fiction, is to encounter a great mind, and to have your own mind made richer.<\/div>\n- \n
- Sula<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- The Source of Self Regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Margo Jefferson\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\nTheater critic and culture writer Jefferson’s memoir, about growing up in the 1950s in the upper crust of Black Chicago society–her father was head of pediatrics at a hospital, her mother was a socialite–is as beautifully written as it is illuminating about privilege and race.<\/div>\n- \n
- Negroland: A memoir<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nColson Whitehead<\/strong><\/div>\nWhether he’s writing about zombies, the fleeting summer vacations of youth, elevator repair, or putting a postmodern spin on the Underground Railroad, Whitehead is always inventive, always humane, always himself.<\/div>\n
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- Sag Harbor<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Zone One<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Intuitionist<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Underground Railroad <\/em><\/a>(Overdrive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFilms and documentaries<\/em><\/h5>\n
On Kanopy<\/div>\n\n- \n
- I Am Not Your Negro,<\/a> written by James Baldwin, dir. by Raoul Peck<\/li>\n
- Moonlight<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Within Our Gates<\/a>, dir. by Oscar Micheaux<\/li>\n
- Daughters of the Dust<\/a>, dir. by Julie Dash<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In the catalog<\/p>\n
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- Boycott<\/a>, Directed by Clark Johnson<\/li>\n
- Do the Right Thing<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Fences<\/a>, written by August Wilson, dir. by Denzel Washigton<\/li>\n
- Fruitvale Station<\/a>, dir. by Ryan Coogler<\/li>\n
- Get Out<\/a>, dir. by Jordan Peele<\/li>\n
- If Beale Street Could Talk<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Malcolm X<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Selma<\/a>, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Available via Inter-Library Loan (email interlibraryloan@bapl.org to request)<\/p>\n
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- Blackout, dir. by Jerry LaMothe<\/li>\n
- Middle of Nowhere, dir. by Ava DuVernay<\/li>\n
- Pariah, dir. by Dee Rees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
Past programs<\/h4>\n
The Roots of Anti-Racism: A Reading Group<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- A 4-session reading group offered in partnership with Lehigh University. This group invites community members to examine the historical roots of anti-racist thought and action. We will discuss poetry, essays, speeches, and personal narratives by Black writers of the 19th century through today. Including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, we will learn together about the roots of anti-racism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Courageous Conversations: Stamped from the Beginning<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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- A 5-month discussion series focused on Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- Watch conversations from the series on BAPL’s Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDialogues on Racial Justice: An Introductory Workshop Series on Issues of Systemic Racism in the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- A 4-week workshop covering how racism is constructed and maintained, historical contexts of systemic oppression and police brutality, and the progress towards equitable reform for restorative justice. Taught by Linda Wiggins-Chavis; thank you, Ms. Wiggins-Chavis!<\/li>\n
- If you are interested in hearing more about this program or contacting Linda Wiggins-Chavis, please email Janine at jcarambot@bapl.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n
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- Read about the first session, Race and Racism: The Construct of Race and How Racism is Maintained<\/a>, in the Southsider<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
- \n
- Watch the third session, Police Brutality: A Historical Perspective,<\/a> on BAPL’s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
- \n
- Community suggested resources from Dialogues on Social Justice<\/em><\/strong>\n
- \n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/strong> <\/a>by James H. Cone<\/li>\n
- The Color of Law<\/strong><\/a> by Richard Rothstein (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/a>, dir. by Samuel D. Pollard (documentary)<\/li>\n
- \u2018The Strange Story Of The Man Behind Strange Fruit<\/a>\u2019
\nby Elizabeth Blair for NPR Morning Edition (2012)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Philadelphia Race Riot<\/a> (1918)\u2019
\nby Will Mack for Blackpast.org (2017)<\/li>\n- \u2018Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer<\/a>\u2019<\/li>\n
- \u2018MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood<\/a>\u2019
\nStuff You Should Know podcast episode (2019)<\/li>\n- \u2018The Long Hot Summer<\/a>\u2019
\nNPR\u2019s Throughline podcast episode (2020)<\/li>\n- Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Map<\/a>
\nACLU.org (accessed July 2020)<\/li>\n- Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws PDF – State by State Breakdown <\/a>
\nBrennanCenter.org (updated June 2020)<\/li>\n- The Childhood Opportunity Gap Expanded Data Visualizations <\/a>
\nDiversitydatakids.org (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n
BAPL Virtual Film Club for July 2020: The Last Black Man in San Francisco <\/em>(Available to stream on Kanopy<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/strong> <\/a>by James H. Cone<\/li>\n
- Slavery By Another Name<\/strong><\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon (nonfiction)<\/li>\n
- Community suggested resources from Dialogues on Social Justice<\/em><\/strong>\n
- Watch the third session, Police Brutality: A Historical Perspective,<\/a> on BAPL’s YouTube channel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Read about the first session, Race and Racism: The Construct of Race and How Racism is Maintained<\/a>, in the Southsider<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Watch conversations from the series on BAPL’s Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- A 5-month discussion series focused on Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- A 4-session reading group offered in partnership with Lehigh University. This group invites community members to examine the historical roots of anti-racist thought and action. We will discuss poetry, essays, speeches, and personal narratives by Black writers of the 19th century through today. Including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde, we will learn together about the roots of anti-racism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Do the Right Thing<\/a>, dir. by Spike Lee<\/li>\n
- Moonlight<\/a>, dir. by Barry Jenkins<\/li>\n
- Zone One<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Sag Harbor<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- The Source of Self Regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Royal Holiday<\/em><\/a> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Kindred<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- The City We Became<\/a><\/em> (Overdrive<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n