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By Charnice Milton Community Bookstore
By Charnice Milton Community Bookstore
A few must reads from Charnice Milton Community Bookstore
Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City
Brandi Thompson Summers
$37.38Compelling and readable academic look neighborhood transformation, centered around DC's H Street (NE) Corridor. Visit DC Public Library for an interview with the author.
The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible
Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe
$24.95 $23.20
Engagement for Equitable Outcomes: A Practitioner's Playbook
Allyson Criner Brown, Kathryn Newcomer, et al.
$36.00Allyson Criner Brown has been a guest of We Act Radio programs. Proud to share this important new resource.
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Martin Luther King
$16.00 $14.88Some of King's later essays, still all too relevant.
When No One Is Watching: An Edgar Award Winner
Alyssa Cole
$16.99 $15.80Insightful exploration of gentrification; set in Brooklyn but equally applicable to DC and other locations. Yes, it's a thriller, blended with romance, but read this even if it's not your usual style. Seriously: Read it now.
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Dick Gregory
$15.99 $14.87The final print installment from long-time DC mentor, teacher, and leader.
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Natalie Hopkinson
$26.95 $25.06Dr. Natalie Hopkinson is associate professor at Howard and active in the creation of the Go-Go Museum and Cafe, next door to CMCB. Check out her interview on We Act Radio's "Community thru Covid."
A is for Anacostia
Courtney Davis and Jerry Craft
$13.80Travels in a historic neighborhood from DC author/educator, Dr. Courtney Davis
Frederick Douglass and the North Star
Lorenzo Pace
$14.66Imaginatively illustrated story of the abolitionist North Star newspaper, founded by Frederick Douglass, "the Lion of Anacostia."
History of the Black Dollar
Angel Rich
$24.95Key moments in the intersection of U.S. economic and Black history. Listen to We Act Radio's "Behind the Mind" for interview with editor Angel Rich.
Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
$30.00 $27.90"I stand in your considered thoughts also broken,/ also unknown, extending/ one sentence, here, I am here...." from "what if," one of a mosaic of poems, images, and essays in this conversation on white supremacy at its most mundane.
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
Gholdy Muhammad
$35.99 $33.47Framework integrating identity development and criticality with skill and intellectual development to better meet the needs of all, particularly students of color.
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Amanda Gorman and Loren Long
$18.99 $17.66coming this year from Inauguration's poet laureate
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
$24.95 $23.20Dr. Denisha Jones, an early regular on We Act Radio's "Education Town Hall," helped create this crucial resource.
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love
$24.95 $23.20Crucial text from one of the founders of the Abolitionist Teaching Network.
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
Marc Dollinger
$42.00Top recommendation from DC's Cross River Dialogue, a group of white Jews living west of the Anacostia and Black non-Jews living and/or working east of the river...including at CMCB and We Act Radio.
Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi
Manishtana
$24.95Entertaining read, shaking up some beliefs about Jewish and Black communities. NECESSARY for anyone active in Jewish life. Complex plot includes a relatively ordinary job search, the not-so-ordinary dating struggles of an African-American Orthodox Jew, and a positively Machiavellian scheme at the intersection of religion, law, politics, and money.
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
Marc Lamont Hill
$12.95 $12.04What does freedom really mean? A discussion from the midst of suffering, death, loss and protest.
CMCB is a project of Social Art And Culture (SAAC), a DC-based 501(c)3 non-profit