Social Justice Initiative Past Readings
2022
- Amanda Gorman, Call us What We Carry
- High on the Hog (Netflix mini-series)
- Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar essay, “Black Cop’s Kid”
- Jordan Hirsch, “The Strange Career of Beautiful Crescent”
- Brooke Park, “Texas Librarians Face Harassment As They Navigate Book Bans,” (May 17 2022 article from The Texas Tribune)
2021
- Chip Colwell, TED talk: Why Museums are Returning Cultural Treasures, and Tara Houska, TED talk: The Standing Rock Resistance and Our Fight for Indigenous Rights
- Still Processing podcast, “Asian-Americans Talk About Racism,” part 1 & part 2
- The 54th in ’22 by Kirsten Greenidge, from Huntington Theatre’s Dream Boston Audio Play series
- Jericho Brown, “The Tradition” (poetry)
- Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (graphic novel)
- “13th” (documentary on YouTube or Netflix)
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
- Crip Camp: a Disability Revolution (documentary on Netflix)
- Jim Vrabel, A People’s History of the New Boston
- Juila Alvarez, Afterlife
2020
- Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
- Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, and Michael Northen (editors), Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
- Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
- Paris is Burning (film)
- I Am Not Your Negro (film)
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- Ralph Waldo Ellison, Invisible Man
- 1619 (Podcast)
- Uncivil (Podcast)