Author, filmmaker, journalist, and adventurer Robert Young Pelton continues to overcome extraordinary obstacles in his search for the truth. In his travels to and through the world's most dangerous places, Pelton shares risks with his hosts, and is often the sole surviving witness to history-shaping events. The World's Most Dangerous Places Robert Young Pelton, a … [Read more...] about Must Read: Robert Young Pelton
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The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
by Rhonda V. Magee In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have … [Read more...] about The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American … [Read more...] about The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of … [Read more...] about The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or … [Read more...] about Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents