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Books: Nonfiction
Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita K. Davis, Leslie R. Hinkson, and Deanna J. Wathington
Body and Soul: The Black Panther and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation by Samuel K. Roberts
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernández
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
To Make the Wounded Whole: the African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS by Dan Royles
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin