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From microaggressions to the wage gap, The Memo empowers women of color with actionable advice on challenges and offers a clear path to success.Most business books provide a one-size-fits-all approach to career advice that overlooks the unique barriers that women of color face. In The Memo, Minda Harts offers a much-needed career guide tailored spe...
Bianca Belair
Jun 24, 2020Also recommended by
Tim KastelleYour Next Level Life
7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America (African American Women in Business, Be Unapologetically You)
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How Big Do You Want to Live?...
Bianca Belair
Jun 24, 2020Self-love is underrated. Everybody looks at themselves and finds all sorts of reasons not to love what they see or they wait for someone else to give them permission to love themselves. You have to stop waiting and start doing and that takes some work. Self-love is not something that just happens - it's a creative process where you dig deep to find...
Bianca Belair
Jun 24, 2020Successful Women Think Differently
9 Habits to Make You Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient
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Popular author and professional certified coach Valorie Burton knows that successful women think differently. They make decisions differently. They set goals differently and bounce back from failure differently. Valorie is dedicated to help women create new thought processes that empower them to succeed in their relationships, finances, work, healt...
Bianca Belair
Jun 24, 2020Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
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The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argue...
Bianca Belair
Mar 01, 2020Also recommended by
Margari AzizaPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and...
Bianca Belair
Feb 29, 2020Also recommended by
Glen MazzaraThe Mis-Education of the Negro
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Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and t...
Bianca Belair
Feb 26, 2020An inspiring story from one of WWE's most charitable SuperstarsOne conversation from one caring person can change the course of a child's life -- Thaddeus Bullard knows that first-hand. Growing up, he was repeatedly confronted with negative words and actions. By the time he was a teenager, he figured that he was the bad kid everyone said he was -- ...
Bianca Belair
Feb 24, 2020Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at...
Bianca Belair
Feb 23, 2020Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And Other Conversations About Race
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The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, a...
Bianca Belair
Feb 15, 2020Also recommended by
Matt McGorryThe Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new introduction and afterword revisit the revolts by athletes like Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom...
Bianca Belair
Feb 14, 2020Angela Davis by Angela Y. Davis
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Talking Back, Talking Black by John McWhorter
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X