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81) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.
82) Trial
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Malcolm Hill, a black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, is arrested for murder, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts finds his life transformed in a single moment by the appearance of Malcolm's photo on the news, enveloping him, Malcolm, and Malcolm's mother in a media firestorm that threatens their lives.
83) This Land
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The lives of a diverse array of everyday Americans - including a Native American man grappling with his past, a bi-racial same-sex couple on opposite sides of the aisle, a Trump supporter fighting to bring his deported wife back home to their son, and more - are chronicled and examined in this fly-on-the-wall film shot on Election Day 2020 in nearly every state.
84) The comeback
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father, that becomes a struggle to survive against racist terrors and monsters ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.
Author
Publisher
Time Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Traces the evolution of the author's views on social justice, from his youth in the civil rights era to his current role as a cultural commentator on topics ranging from race and economic inequality to music and the influence of the media.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Why? distills the conversations many children and adults are having about race, injustice, and anger in communities throughout our country, and gives them context that young readers can connect with." --
91) Karen
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A woman takes it as a personal mission to displace the new Black family that just moved into the neighborhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two transformational authors share a compelling vision about the possibility of ending racism in a single generation—offering scientifically backed practices to enact lasting change in ourselves, our families, our communities, and beyond. Includes proven methods for overcoming doubt, communicating across divides, shadow work, forgiveness, and more.
94) Boy bites bug
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
To defuse a situation between his best friend and a new student, Nolan eats a live stink bug, gaining popularity and a class project idea but, perhaps, losing a friend.
96) Fruits of Labor
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A Mexican-American teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school. When ICE raids her community, it threatens to separate her family and forces her to become her family's breadwinner. FRUITS OF LABOR is a lyrical, coming-of-age documentary feature about adolescence, nature and how ancestors paved the way. Director Emily Cohen Ibáñez documents life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern America.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a military-grade explosive on a residential building to end a standoff with Black liberation group MOVE, setting a new standard for institutionalized violence and the dehumanization of Black bodies. 11 people, including 5 children were killed. TARGET: PHILADELPHIA explores the rise of police militarization within the parallel contexts of Black nationalism and the systemic disenfranchisement that incubates movements...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. John Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the era. Mamie had vowed for a century that she would never return to Mississippi. Yet with Tarabu’s remarkable find, he urged his mother to finally confront...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family--power brokers in Kingstown. Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
100) How it went down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
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