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Activism & Awareness: A Reading List For The Holidays

It’s been a tough year, and many of us are trying to figure out where to go next. But education is essential before we take informed action, so do a deep dive into some of the issues we face in America with these books.

Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Jackson, 1964, And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin

Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed A. El-Erian