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Curated Black Lit Build a Black literature library of your very own. We offer fiction and nonfiction quarterly book

Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap

Cory Booker and others discuss how slavery, housing discrimination and centuries of inequality have compounded to create a racial wealth

Community Justice Action Fund

The Community Justice Action Fund is committed to building power within Black communities to end gun violence. Community Justice works to reduce gun violence in Black and Brown communities by empowering those closest to the pain CJAF is the only national gun violence organization led by a woman of color, and is proud to be led by a governing board made up of 100% survivors of

The Hate U Give

The acclaimed, award-winning novel is now a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg, Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Anthony Mackie, Issa Rae, and Common. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her

The National Council of Negro Women

The National Council of Negro Women is an organization of 300 campus and community-based organizations that empower Black women, their families, and communities. The National Council of Negro Women is an “organization of organizations” (comprised of 300 campus and community-based sections and 32 national women’s organizations) that enlightens, inspires and connects more than 2,000,000 women and men.  Its mission is to lead, advocate for, and empower women of African descent, their families and