Our staff have organized several lists of books and films at New Lenox Library to better understand current events and the history of racism in America. These resources focus on a variety of topics, including historical context, systemic inequality, anti-Black violence, protest, intersectionality, allyship, education, hope, celebration, and resilience.
Our collection is always growing. View our New Releases for a list of monthly new media.
Non-Fiction Reading for Teens
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You
Jason Reynolds
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When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
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42: the True Story of Jackie Robinson
Aaron Rosenberg, Brian Helgeland
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Lynda Blackmon Lowery
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Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
Russell Freedman
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Stolen Justice: the Struggle for African American Voting Rights
Lawrence Goldstone
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Fiction Reading for Teens
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, & Hope
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Black Boy/White School
Brian F. Walker
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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Hearts Unbroken
Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Love, Hate & Other Filters
Samira Ahmed
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Anger is a Gift: A Novel
Mark Oshiro
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I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal
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Monday’s Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson
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Viewing for Teens
![Selma [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures, Pathé and Harpo Films present ; a Plan B, Cloud Eight Films, Harpo Films production ; in association with Ingenious Media ; an Ava DuVernay film ; produced by Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner ; written by Paul Webb ; directed by Ava DuVernay](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YaOZ1RaaL.jpg)
![Hidden figures [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures presents a Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films production ; produced by Donna Gigliotti [and four others] ; screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi ; directed by Theodore Melfi](http://www.syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=/mc.gif&client=prairiearealib&upc=024543275329&&type=snui)