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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith - Norton Young Readers
Format: Paperback

A 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist"Phenomenal . . . Timely and timeless, a must-read not just for sports fans but for everyone."?New York Times Book ReviewOn October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith,...
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi - Kokila
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging,...
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The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone

Heather McGhee - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together.. The future can be prosperous for everyone,...
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All You Have to Do

Autumn Allen - Listening Library
Format: Hardcover

Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic institutions in America.In ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, two Black young men attend prestigious...
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Come Home Safe: A Novel (Blink)

Brian G. Buckmire - Blink
Format: Hardcover

A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn't commit. Come Home Safe explores the pain, the truths, and the hopes that come with growing up as a person of color in America, as well as why "the talk" and discussions about social justice are so important...
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We deserve monuments

Jas Hammonds - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

"An absolute must read." -- Buzzfeed"A gripping portrayal of the South's inherent racism and a love story for queer Black girls." -- Teen VogueFamily secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a YA debut from Jas Hammonds...
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I Rise

Marie Arnold - Versify
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance....
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We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia

P. O'Connell Pearson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This revelatory and gripping nonfiction middle grade book explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history that is still playing out today: the strange case of Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only place in the United States to ever formally deny its citizens a public education,...
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When You Look Like Us

Pamela N. Harris
Format: Hardcover

From debut author Pamela Harris comes a timely, gripping teen novel about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Tiffany D. Jackson....
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We Are the Scribes

Randi Pink - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A young adult novel by Randi Pink about a teenage activist who is visited by the ghost of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman. Ruth Fitz is surrounded by activism. Her mother is a senator who frequently appears on CNN as a powerful Black voice fighting for legislative social change within...
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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Alverne Ball - Abrams ComicArts - Megascope
Format: Hardcover

In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed...
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Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman

Kristen R. Lee - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

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Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. All you need to know is . . . I'm here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants...
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Light It Up

Kekla Magoon - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength -- as well as an incredible follow-up to the highly acclaimed novel How It Went Down.A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age....
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Unequal: A Story of America

Michael Eric Dyson - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Renowned, bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America.The true story of racial inequality - and resistance to it - is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where...
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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

Kekla Magoon - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that...
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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

Jetta Grace Martin - Levine Querido
Format: Book

There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic.That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.In the beginning, it was a story like any other....

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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter

Veronica Chambers - Versify
Format: Hardcover

In 2020, the world watched history being made in the streets of America. The rallying cry of Black Lives Matter captured global attention and spurred thousands of people of all ages, races, genders, and backgrounds to stand up for major progressive social reform. The widespread protests,...
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Black Girl Magic: A Poem

MAHOGANY L BROWNE - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Black Girl, they say you ain't 'posed to be hereMuch of what twenty-first century culture tells black girls is not pretty: Don't wear this; don't smile at that. Don't have an opinion; don't dream big. And most of all, don't love yourself. In response to such destructive ideas, internationally...
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Brandy Colbert - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train...
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Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy

Crystal Marie Fleming
Format: Hardcover

Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed in cages? Where did racism come from? Why hasn't it already disappeared? And what can young people do about it?Rise Up! breaks down...
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work

Tiffany Jewell - Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Format: Paperback

Who are you What is racism Where does it come from Why does it exist What can you do to disrupt it Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation."In...
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When They Call You a Terrorist

Patrisse Khan-Cullors - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of how movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter-- spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment.Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where...
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

Frederick Joseph
Format: Hardcover

"We don't see color." "I didn't know Black people liked Star Wars!" "What hood are you from?" For Frederick Joseph, life as a transfer student in a largely white high school was full of wince-worthy moments that he often simply let go. As he grew older,...
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This Is My America

Kim Johnson - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinThe Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont...
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Jason Reynolds - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep...
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Ibi Zoboi - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today - Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America.Black is...sisters navigating...
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The Black Kids

Christina Hammonds Reed - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Infused with honesty, heart, and humor, The Black Kids is a true love letter to Los Angeles, highlighting the beauty and flaws of the city, and the people who call it home." - Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this...
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One of the Good Ones

Maika Moulite
Format: Hardcover(Original)

A shockingly powerful exploration of the lasting impact of prejudice and the indomitable spirit of sisterhood that will have readers questioning what it truly means to be an ally, from sister-writer duo Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, authors of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine.ISN'T BEING...
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March: Book One

John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from...
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SLAY

Brittney Morris - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

"Gripping and timely." - People "The YA debut we're most excited for this year." - Entertainment Weekly "A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that'll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain." - Nic Stone,...
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Say Her Name

Zetta Elliott - Jump At The Sun
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating...
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Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thought...
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The Black Lives Matter Movement

Peggy J Parks - Referencepoint Press
Format: Hardcover

Black Lives Matter was born in July 2013 after a jury exonerated the killer of an unarmed black youth named Trayvon Martin. Since that time it has become known as a formidable, often controversial, civil rights movement that seeks equality and fair treatment of black citizens by law enforcement...
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