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James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
4.6
9 minNikole Hannah-Jones
The 1619 Project
4.621 minRobin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
4.511 minIjeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk About Race
4.518 minChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
4.525 minAlice Wong
Disability Visibility
4.511 minEdited by Tarana Burke
You Are Your Best Thing
4.514 minTa-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
4.412 minChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists
4.411 minJohn Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed
4.413 minReni Eddo-Lodge
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
4.412 minMikki Kendall
Hood Feminism
4.415 minTa-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power
4.413 minTressie McMillan Cottom
Thick
4.423 minHeather Cox Richardson
Democracy Awakening
4.412 minSavannah Guthrie
Mostly What God Does
4.49 minHanif Abdurraqib
There's Always This Year
4.411 minStephen Hawking
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
4.320 minSeneca
Letters from a Stoic
4.326 minW.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
4.314 minAubrey Gordon
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”
4.315 minDan Rather
What Unites Us
4.313 minadrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism
4.314 minVirginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own
4.212 minCheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things
4.211 minRoxane Gay
Hunger
4.29 minAnne Lamott
Bird by Bird
4.218 minTimothy Snyder
On Tyranny
4.210 minAlbert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
4.210 minCathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings
4.212 min