Racial Justice Reads
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Literary AND lit up… by brilliant authors sharing important lessons and stories in a captivating format: BOOKS!
Join us for a dynamic session featuring an author discussion with authors and luminaries of the racial justice movement, and get your book(s) signed by the featured authors.
Friday November 13
Our Beautiful Next: Quantum Leaps to Liberation
Makani Themba
The real battleground for social change is our collective imagination—and the world we seek is closer than we think.
What does it take to build a world rooted in collective joy and thriving—and why, when we have the knowledge and expertise to feed people, house people, and heal people, don't we? Makani Themba's answer begins with power: how it works, how it shapes what we believe is possible, and how controlling our imagination is the primary tool of those who benefit from things staying the same.
Our Beautiful Next is an invitation to step into our full power as changemakers and deepen our understanding of how change actually happens. Drawing on ancestral wisdom, personal narratives, poetry, practical tools, and science, Themba challenges long-held notions about transformative change—what it looks like, what it requires of us, and what it means to build the kind of power that makes it possible.
Part of the Emergent Strategy Series, with a foreword by series editor adrienne maree brown.
From renowned public health expert Dr. Karabi Acharya comes a profound, beautifully written exploration of what it means to be Multiracial today—and a transformative call to build a culture of absolute belonging.
Multiracial people are the fastest-growing population in the United States, yet they remain almost invisible in our institutions, narratives, and data. Until recently, Americans were categorized as Black or White, sometimes Asian or Hispanic, without other options or the choice to identify as more than one. Even while long-overdue conversations about race have deepened, the thirty-four million Americans who identify as Multiracial have been left on the sidelines: unseen, underrepresented, and facing an epidemic of isolation as a result.
In Multitudes, Dr. Acharya—a Multiracial academic, public health leader, and lifelong activist for inclusion—blends groundbreaking research with personal stories, interviews, and vivid real-world examples to illuminate the Multiracial experience. The result is both mirror and manifesto: a stereotype-shattering, deeply human portrait of identity, resilience, and connection that argues that embracing our complexity—our multitudes—is not a barrier to wholeness but the path to it.
At a time when America faces escalating racial tensions, the re-emergence of white nationalist movements, and growing threats to democracy, Ralph Remington’s Penetrating Whiteness is an urgently needed clarion call.
This powerful and timely collection of essays offers piercing insights into the realities of racism, sexism, homophobia, and the damaging legacy of Donald Trump's divisive presidency. With Trump mounting another run for the White House in 2024 amid the fallout of the January 6th insurrection, the national atmosphere is tinged with volatility and civil war rhetoric. Into this powder keg moment steps Remington, one of America’s leading Black multi-sector voices on identity, social justice, and the path toward racial healing. His essays boldly confront the uncomfortable truths about the persisting toxicity of white supremacy and systemic discrimination.