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I have a wonderful library, accumulated over the course of decades. Many books I’ve read; many I’ve not.

This blog series takes a look inside my library…

What I’m reading now…We Are Worth Fighting For

“We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989” by Joshua M. Myers I was excited to begin reading...

Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, by Katherine Franke. I’ve served on several law school panels with Katherine Franke and I’m...

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, by Akinyele Umoja (2013). Brother Akinyele Umoja, like myself,...

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). This is Ta-Nehisi’s treasury of riveting articles...

The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming A Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison and Fighting for Those Left Behind, by...

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman, Jr. (2017). The war on crime that began in the 1970s was...