Suggestions

 

Media Suggestions

 
 
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Books

  • "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol

  • "The Shame of the Nation" by Jonathan Kozol

  • "Rachel and Her Children" by Jonathan Kozol

  • "There are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz

  • "The Corner" by David Simon

  • "Evicted, Matthew" by Desmond

  • "Another Place at the Table" by Kathy Harrison

  • “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant” by Daniel Tammet

  • “The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband” by David Finch

  • “Three Little Words: A Memoir” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

  • “Family Skeleton: A Brother and Sister's Journey from Murder to Truth” by Andre Carmichael, Aurora Mackey and Sabrina Carmichael Yaw

  • “Far From the Tree” by Robin Benway

  • “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate

  • “A Beautiful Boy” by David Sheff

  • “Tweak: Growing Up on Amphetamines” by Nic Sheff

  • “Random Family” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

  • “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng

  • “The Leavers” by Lisa Ko

  • “Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon

  • “A Chance in the World” by Steve Pemberton

  • “No Ego” by Cy Wakeman

  • “The 57 Bus” by Dashka Slater

  • “Beyond Magenta” by Susan Kuklin

  • “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore

  • “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson

  • “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander

  • “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • “The Beautiful Struggle” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • “Daring Greatly” by Brené Brown

  • “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem

  • “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo

  • “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • “Small Great Things” by Jodi Picoult

  • “The Deepest Well” by Nadine Burke Harris

  • “Men We Raped” by Jesmyn Ward

 
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Movies AND TV

  • “Maid,” 2021

  • "Paper Tigers," 2015

  • "13th," 2016

  • "ReMoved," 2013

  • “Instant Family,” 2018

  • “Foster”, HBO Documentary, 2019

  • “Dawnland,” 2018

  • “Broken Places,” 2018

 

Podcasts

This American Life, "Three Miles"

NPR’s Fresh Air, “Never Enough”

NPR’s Fresh Air, “The Neuroscience of Addiction”

NPR, The Connection Between Early Childhood Experiences and Long Term Health

NPR, Adverse Childhood Experience Study

NPR, How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Health