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Community Book Drive Book List

Below is a list of books that we would like folks to donate for the drive. We are primarily interested in books by Black and poc (person of color) authors, featuring Black and poc characters. We will also accept books that have visible ethnic representation, as well as representation across the spectrums of Blackness, ability, gender, religion, etc.

Monetary Donations for the book drive can be made through the Donate link within the Get Involved tab.

We plan to Distribute Books at the following locations: Don Moyers Boys and Girls Club, Douglass Community Center, Crisis Nursery, Courage Connections, Cunningham Kids, DREAAM House, Kendall-Gill House, and Canaan Academy. If you would like to have books donated to a particular group or organization please contact us.

BOOK LIST:

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle

Black Panthers for Beginners by Herb Boyd

Happy to Be Nappy by Bell Hooks

Thunder Rose by Jerdine Kadir Nelson

Dont Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table by Vanessa Newton

Momma, Where Are You From? by Marie Bradby/ Chris Soentpiet

How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort/James E. Ransome

Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison/ Slade Morrison & Joe Cepeda

When the Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill/ Theodore Taylor III

Nejma by Nayyirah Waheed

Salt by Nayyirah Waheed

Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Soft Magic by Upile Chisala

Nectar by Upile Chisala

Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Amy Reeder

Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet

Electric Arches by Eve L Ewing

White Socks only by Evelyn Coleman

This is the rope by Jacqueline Woodson

The other side by Jacqueline Woodson

Freedom over me by Ashley Bryan

Warriors dont cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

Coming of age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

The taste of power: A black womens story by Elaine Brown

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

I, too, am America by Langston Hughes

Malcolm Little: The boy who grew up to become Malcolm X by ilyasah Shabazz

Fifty Cents and a Dream: Booker T Washington by Jabari Asim

Crown: An ode to the fresh cut by Derrick Barnes

I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

And still I rise by Maya Angelou

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okaparanta

Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific by Meliza Banales

What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara

Moondragon in the mosque garden by El-Farouk Khaki

My brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete

Last stop on market street by Matt de la Pena

Five little ducks by Anthony Lewis

Counting on community by Innosanto Nagara

Bells Knock Knock Birthday by George Parker

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Panther: The World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sign Up Here: A Story About Friendship by Kathryn Cole

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

A Black Childrens Coloring Book: Black Girl Magic (Volume 1) by Kyle Davis

I Know I Can! by Veronica N. Chapman

The Color of Us by Karen Katz

Rapunzel by Rachel Isadora

The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Rachel Isadora

Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Nikki and Deja: Nikki and Deja, Book One by Karen English

Whose Knees Are These? by Jabari AsimLola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn

Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn

Jupiter Storm by Marti Dumas

Girl of Mine by Jabari Asim

Bippity Bop Barbershop by Natasha Tarpley

Dad, Who Will I Be? by Todd Taylor

Peekaboo Morning by Rachel Isadora

Afrobets 1,2,3 by Cheryl Willis Hudson

Whose Toes are Those? by Jabari Asim

Full,Full,Full of Love by Trish Cooke

The Princess and the Pea by Rachel Isadora

My Nana and Me by Irene Smalls

Hijab-ista by Jamila Mapp

Aminas Voice by Hena Khan

X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

The Sun Is So Quiet by Nikki Giovanni

I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni

Love by Matt de la Pena

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes

Black Panther The Young Prince (Marvel Black Panther) by Ronald L. Smith

Miles Morales: Spider-Man (A Marvel YA Novel) by Jason Reynolds

Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 5:Mission Star-Power (Volume 5) by Marti Dumas

The Sweetest Sound by Sherri Winston

June Peters, You Will Change The World One Day by Alika Turner

THe Lost Ring: An Eid Story by Fawzia Gilani-Williams

Noko and the Kool Kats by Fiona Moodie

The Boy who Spat in Sargrentis Eye by Manu Herbstein

Obatalas Daughter Discovers True Friends by Dr. Winmilawe

The Storyteller by Evan Turk

Akosua and Osman by Manu Herbstein

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Mr. Moye was originally from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., but lived in the Charleston area and was visiting New Orleans at the time of his death, his sister Kimberli Duncan, 46, said in a phone interview on Wednesday.

He was always fighting for justice, equality and fairness, she said. He always wanted to do for others. He never put himself first.

In 2015, Mr. Moye demonstrated on behalf of the family of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in North Charleston that April.

Two months after that, nine black churchgoers in Charleston were murdered by the white supremacist Dylann S. Roof. Mr. Moye participated in demonstrations and spoke to news outlets about the history of racial inequality in the United States.

And when Donald J. Trump went to Mount Pleasant, a city near Charleston, for a campaign rally in December 2015, calling for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, Mr. Moye was there, too, in protest.

You would think wed learn from history, he told The New York Times, adding that his father was a Muslim.

Last year, when Mr. Moye tried to wrest the Confederate flag from a demonstrator, he did not succeed. The police surrounded him, eventually bringing him down to the ground and then arresting him. But after the video of his flying leap spread online, he told The Washington Post that he had tried to take the flag away from the demonstrator to help them understand what it is to meet a real resistance, to meet people that arent scared.

Ms. Duncan said her family was still waiting for answers about what happened to Mr. Moye, and she hoped his activism would inspire others to keep working for racial equality. Id like to keep up his dream, keep up his faith, she said. He was absolutely serious about it.

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A Black Lives Matter activist who spent the past few years fully engaged in the movement was killed during a visit to New Orleans Tuesday, authorities said.

The circumstances surrounding Muhiyidin Moyes death were unclear, but an officer responding to a call about gunshots found him lying on the ground, according to a New Orleans Police Department report.

Moye, 32, asked for help as police arrived, according to the police report, which also described a bicycle near him as being covered in blood.

The shooting occurred around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, and Moye later died in the hospital, New Orleans police spokesman Beau Tidwell said in a statement.

Moye was the activist caught on video last year in Charleston, South Carolina, as he grabbed a Confederate battle flag from a demonstrator live on television, but his impact on the community extended much further, his brother said.

He wouldnt just protest; he was in the communities, working, speaking with leaders, checking on families, Ibraheem Moye, 27, told ABC News of his brother. He wanted to show people that social injustice wasnt going to be allowed.

Muhiyidin Moye earned his bachelors degree from the University of South Carolina in Columbia and his masters from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, according to his brother.

His brother wasnt sure why Muhiyidin was visiting New Orleans but he suspected it involved his activism.

Moye had previously demonstrated on behalf of the family of Walter Scott, whom a North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer shot to death after stopping him for a non-functioning brake light. Moye also subsequently interrupted several City Council meetings there, demanding changes be made in the police department.

The former officer, Michael Slager, was sentenced to prison in connection with Scotts death.

No arrest has been made in connection with Moyes shooting death, police said.

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The most significant manifestation of this kind since the civil rights movement is Black Lives Matter. Widely credited to Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza in response to Trayvon Martins death on February 26, 2012, at the hands of George Zimmerman, and to Zimmermans subsequent acquittal. As America began to pay more attention to police shootings of unarmed blacks, the movements power grew. That power was derived from its simple, bold and irrefutably true proposition that black lives do not exist for pleasurable disposal in a society still mired in its white supremacist history.

Yet, despite the obvious truth of that statement, we may wonder: What are the moral and political arguments that underwrite the claim that black lives matter? While there is no way to articulate the full scope of those arguments in a single essay, its worth considering the philosophical contributions of some of the forerunners of the movement that is our most urgent manifestation of black thought today.

The end of the Civil War and the subsequent ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865 legally abolished slavery, but blacks quickly became subject to a displaced form of violence at the hands of white supremacists across the nation who typically used false accusations of sexual assault to justify lynching black men. Police turned a blind eye to these murders, and sometimes actively facilitated them.

Ida B. Wells, a leading black thinker and journalist in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, and a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, built a public career documenting lynchings and calling America to account for them. Her arguments extended and amplified those made by Frederick Douglass before her. Douglasss central claim in his seminal The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro was that Americans should feel shame for slavery, given their countrys foundational commitment to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were failing our own ideals.

Wells pointed to the rise of lynching after the fall of slavery as not merely a legal matter to be rectified with new laws. Having fled her hometown to escape threats of her own lynching, Wells used the press to make her moral arguments. She described a nation in the grip of a dark remorse for freeing black Americans from slavery, and condemned white Americans for cruelties that violated their own commitment to the democratic project.

The horrors that Wells described were a factor in the Great Migration of blacks to the North, which fed the flourishing of black thought and cultural life that gave rise to the Harlem Renaissance. An indication that the Harlem Renaissance was always meant to be a period of radical black philosophy and social change was the name originally coined for the movement: The New Negro. Alain Locke, the Harvard-educated black intellectual who became known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance, envisioned a philosophical position that reinvigorated blacks relationship to their culture and that would in turn solidify their status as equal co-participants in our democracy.

A strong theme among some of the luminaries of the time focused on the will of blacks to assert their humanity against racism and to insist on their status as persons owed respect. Among those stars, the poet Langston Hughes was one of the brightest. His I Too is a quiet yet insistent poem depicting a black man employed by a white one and his struggle with invisibility. The protagonist resolves to sit at the table with the white folks the next day and show people how beautiful he is and that he, too, is America. The writer Zora Neale Hurston had an equally persistent but at times more playful take on the matter. In her essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me, she wrote, Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company! Its beyond me.

Thinkers like Hughes and Hurston were involved in the Harlem Renaissance project of presenting a vision of black cultural vitality and worth that would rework the image of black Americans that whites typically relied upon. That stream of thought runs directly into the heart of Black Lives Matter.

Another valuable and necessary development to come out of the Black Lives Matter movement is the de-emphasizing of black patriarchy and the equal acknowledgment of the suffering of black women and the black L.G.T.B.Q. community. Though sexuality was an avenue of inquiry during the Harlem Renaissance, it was perhaps the mid- to late-20th century poet and theorist Audre Lorde who did the most to make black womens sexuality a focal point of political and social philosophy.

While today intersectionality is bandied about as the cutting edge of social research, it was Lorde who in her writing insisted on complicating our view of personal identity by claiming that each of us belongs to multiple identity communities, all of which contribute to our sense of self and our purposes.

She also showed the broad reach of white supremacy and its effects on black Americans as they located themselves in more nuanced ways in the tapestry of American culture. For her, the primary form taken by resistance to racism was the denial of blunt categories imposed on black Americans, which stifled the possibility of an individuals full flourishing. Lorde, then, called for a radical form of self-possession whose boundaries were not open to negotiation with a white society.

When people think of Black Lives Matter, they often think of anger feeding forceful protests. Anger is a reasonable response to racial injustice. To be certain, groups like the Black Panthers and thinkers like Malcolm X advised black Americans to get angry and take the doctrine of armed self-defense seriously. Though anger and love are not mutually exclusive emotions, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. affirmed a view of civic love to pre-empt the need for violence.

King espoused a form of Kantian regard that prioritized conceiving of every human, racist or not, as owed a kind of love that is grounded in the ideal of universal respect. Baldwin held a slightly different view. He felt black Americans ought to see whites as democratic kin or family, as people with whom blacks would have serious quarrels but also people whom it would be worth keeping close in order to strengthen and bring integrity to the bonds of shared democratic life. These two views of love eschewed violence yet insisted on militancy. While forgiveness and acceptance were hallmarks of Kings and Baldwins views, so was an unyielding commitment to self-respect and the demand for social change to institutionalize the idea that blacks were co-creators of the American kingdom.

Thinkers like Wells, Hughes, Hurston, Lorde and Baldwin not only anticipated the current Black Lives Matter movement but provided an intellectual blueprint to give depth and integrity to that slogan, so that its meaning transcends the demand to stop police brutality. It is a demand for whites to extend their historical imagination and recognize that the ills of racism are not the result of a few bad police officers or a few out-and-out racists in some far-off corner of America. The problem, rather, is a kind of complicity one partaking in the false comfort that America has somehow escaped the trajectory of its racially murderous history. It is necessary that we to see our society today as continuous with that history and not anomalous to it.

Black thoughts primary contribution to the academy and to American society is the richness and precision with which it describes our worst demons to us, while offering a vision of how we might each save our democracy from the ruin of irrational fear and hatred.

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The Black Lives Matter leader known for diving over a barrier to snatch a Confederate flag from a protester on live TV last year was shot dead in New Orleans, police said.

Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, who went by Muhiyidin dBaha, was found dead Tuesday morning after being shot in the thigh while riding his bicycle, the Advocate reported.

New Orleans police spokesman Beau Tidwell said no information about a potential motive or suspects was immediately available.

DBaha, 32, moved to South Carolina from Poughkeepsie, NY, when he was 13 and was in the Big Easy on a personal trip, his niece Camille Weaver told the Post and Courier.

He loved Charleston and loved fighting for whats right, she said. Ive never met anyone more committed and hardworking than him. He was an asset to the Charleston community and will be greatly missed.

The activist drew national attention last February when he was arrested for jumping over a barricade in an attempt to grab a Confederate flag away from a demonstrator at the College of Charleston.

Members of the South Carolina Secessionist Party had gathered to protest a lecture by activist Bree Newsome, who famously climbed the South Carolina capitol flagpole to remove its Confederate flag in 2015.

DBaha was slapped with disorderly conduct charges as a result of the incident, which was caught on air.

Not another generation of people are going to be intimidated by this flag, he told the Washington Post after the incident, adding hed tried to wrestle the flag away to help them understand what it is to meet a real resistance, to meet people that arent scared.

In the hopes of bringing dBahas body back to Charleston for a funeral, his niece started a GoFundMe drive that had raised almost double its $7,500 goal by Wednesday.

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