Baradaran, Mehrsa, (2019). The Color of Money: Black Banks and The Racial Wealth Gap. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Sparking meaningful conversations that sharpen our thinking, challenge our assumptions, and foster solidarity and equity is central to our mission. Words create worlds. These resources provide us with tools to navigate the dynamics of differences, blow past stereotypes and unconscious biases and create mindsets for new ways of knowing and being.
Books
Benedict, M. & Christopher Murray, V. (2023), The First Ladies, NY, New York: Berkley.
Boykin, Keith (2024). Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? NY, New York: Bold Type Books.
Brooks, David (2023). How to Know a Person: The Art of Being Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. New York, NY: Random House.
Brown, Brene (2021). Atlas ofthe Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, New York, NY: Random House.
Brown, Dorothy (2022). The Whiteness of Wealth, New York, NY: Crown.
Chugh, Dolly (2022). A More Just Future. New York, NY, Atria Books.
Gladwell, M. (2019). Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know aboutthe People We Don’t Know. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Grant, A. (2021) Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. NY, New York: Viking.
Hannah-Jones, N., Roper, C., Silverman, I., and Silverstein, J. (Eds.) The 1619 Project. New York, NY: One World.
Harriot, Michael. (2023). Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers.
Jones-Rogers, S.E. (2019). They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kendi, Ibram, X. (2016). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of RacistIdeas in America. New York, N.Y: Nations Books.
Kendi, Ibram X. (2019). How to be an Anti-Racist. New York, NY: One World.
Kendi, Ibram X. (2026). Chain of Ideas. New York, NY: One World.
Klein, Ezra, (2020). Why We’re Polarized. New York, NY, Avid Reader Press.
Knight, J. L. (2021). Heart: A Journey Toward Cultural Humility, Cleveland, OH: Leading with Humility, LLC.
Levi, Allen (2023). Theo of Golden. New York, NY: Atria Paperback.
Livingston, R. (2021). The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations. NY, NY: Penguin Random House.
Love, B.L. (2019). We Wantto Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
McGhee, Heather, (2021). The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and Who We Can Prosper Together. New York, NY. One World Press.
Mounk, Y. (2018). The People vs Democracy: Why our freedom is in danger and how to save it. Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press.
Neiman, S. (2019). Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Plummer, D. (Ed) (2018). Handbook of Diversity Management: Inclusive Strategies for Driving Organizational Excellence. Boston, MA: Half Dozen Publications.
Plummer, D. (2019). Some of My Friends Are…The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Potential of Cross-Racial Friendships. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Rea, P, Stoller, J.K., & Kolp, A. (2023). Better Humans Better Performance. New York, NY, McGraw Hill.
Ripley, A. (2021). High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Ross, Loretta J. (2025). Calling In. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Scientific American, The Science of Overcoming Racism: What Research Shows and Experts Say About Creating a More Just and Equitable World. Special Collector’s Edition, Summer 2021. Volume 30, Number 3.
Sokatch, D. (2021). Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Wilkerson, Isabel (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York, NY.
Winters, M.F. (2017). We can’t talk about that at work! How to talk about race, religion, politics, and other polarizing topics. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Woodard, C. (2011). American Nations: A history ofthe eleven rival regional cultures of North America. NY, NY: Penguin Books.
