Racism & Discrimination

Michail Antonio wants you to know what it actually feels like to earn a living from playing professional football. 'Humans Not Robots is fantastic … brilliant … eye-opening … enjoyable' The Sunday Times 'Not since Tony Cascarino's seminal Full Time, which is now 26 years old, have I read a...

There is a persistent gap in life expectancy between Black people and their white counterparts in the United States. It is a direct result of structural racism within American society and has nothing to do with genetic differences. In past eras, scientific racism sought to shift the blame to the supposed physical inferiority of people of African descent. Even today, medicine labors under false beliefs derived from nineteenth-century racial thinking, harming patients who are not of European descent.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us. “A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these...

AUDIOBOOK READ BY THE AUTHOR “In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a book about America's favorite lie—that good intentions lead to justice. Ellis is a rigorous historian and a visceral storyteller, and he has produced something essential: a reckoning with a...

ZIONISTS TEND TO DESPISE THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THEIR HATRED NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED. THAT BEGINS WITH YOU. IT BEGINS WITH THIS BOOK...

In What Lies Beneath the Ground: A Reckoning with Deerfield Beach’s "Old Colored Cemetery,” Dr. Sherman J. Morris offers a deeply personal essay on Black memory, sacred land, segregation, and the unfinished work of telling the truth. Written by a son of Deerfield Beach, this work speaks directly to the young Black people of the city while inviting all listeners to confront a history too often neglected, softened, or ignored. This is not simply the story of a cemetery.

From award-winning sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve comes the first account of mass wrongful conviction in America, indicting a system purposefully designed to ensnare Black youth in order to close cases “A must-read reckoning with past and present alike.”—Heather Ann Thompson...

Una crónica valiente sobre el racismo en el fútbol español y el poder de los nuevos referentes para cambiar el relato. Este libro es el viaje periodístico y personal de Alberto Edjogo por los rincones más incómodos —y también esperanzadores— del fútbol español. Con una mirada que...

Slavery in Europe and the Americas was not abolished by the enlightened popular movements. It was destroyed by the resistance and countless rebellions by the enslaved people. A New History of Slavery traces the institution of human bondage from antiquity to the present day, revealing how profoundly it has shaped global history and, above all, setting the record straight on how the horror of Atlantic slave trade was eliminated. The story of slavery’s end has too often been told as a triumph of Christian morality or industrial progress.

A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries. Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively...