READING • The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead• Caste, Isabel Wilkerson• 1968 Interview in Esquire Magazine, James

Baldwin

ART• 30 Americans• Black Refractions• Soul of a Nation

FILM & VIDEO• “When They See Us,” streaming on Netflix

YOUNG ADULT & FAMILY• New Kid, Jerry Kraft. Discussion questions:

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES• The Sellout, Paul Beatty• If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin• Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin• Beloved, Toni Morrison• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale

Hurston• Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo,

Zora Neale Hurston• An American Marriage, Tayari Jones• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison• The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor• Everything Inside: Stories, Edwidge Danticat

Central in Action

American History Through the Lens of Fiction & Art Resources for Individual and Group Study

Central in Action together with Central Clergy and staff are committed to congregation-based community organizing as a model of social justice work that prioritizes relationship-building and creates real change in our communities through advocacy at the local and state levels.

Kehinde Wiley. Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares (detail), 2005 From “30 Americans.” Courtesy of Rubell Family Collection, Miami.