NYT - Race and Civil Rights

1) Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

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Shetterly, Margot Lee

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#2 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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The #1 New York Times bestseller

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians

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2) Between the world and me

Author

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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#3 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT

Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required...

3) The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Author

Alexander, Michelle

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#4 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora

A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author

"It

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4) Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption

Author

Stevenson, Bryan

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#5 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.

5) Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America

Author

Kendi, Ibram X

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#10 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.