Black Lives Matter: Copper HQ Recommendations

The first step to building an anti-racist world is each of us becoming educated ourselves about racism.

For those of us who are not in the Black Community, this is an opportunity for us to listen and to learn and to have uncomfortable conversations. It’s an opportunity to dig in and do the work in regards to one of the most important issues of our lifetimes so we can become effective allies for equality and inclusion.

Here are the books we’re feeling especially grateful for — and guided by — right now at Copper HQ.

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
• Between the World and Me
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
• The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

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What are you reading and learning from right now? We would love to hear.

Share your recommendations over at @meetcopper.

#blacklivesmatter