Terri’s Media Library

Frank B. Wilderson III

Wilderson argues that anti-Black violence is not a social problem to be solved but the structural foundation upon which all other human relations are built. Blending memoir with theory drawn from Fanon and Saidiya Hartman, this National Book Award longlisted work refuses consolation.

Ibram X. Kendi

Kendi combines memoir with rigorous scholarship to argue that neutrality on racism is impossible — you are either actively antiracist or complicit. Working through categories from biology to culture to class, he uses his own evolving journey to examine how racist ideas operate at every level of American society, and what equitable policy could actually look like.

Adam Hochschild

The definitive account of Belgium's colonial plunder of the Congo under King Leopold II — a regime that killed an estimated ten million people while Leopold cultivated a global reputation as a humanitarian. Hochschild also traces the first modern international human rights movement that rose to expose it.

Ijeoma Oluo

Oluo traces 150 years of American history to examine how white male mediocrity became enshrined as the default standard of excellence. From post-Reconstruction to the NFL anthem protests, she shows how maintaining that standard has damaged women, people of color — and white men themselves.

Ijeoma Oluo

A practical guide to the conversations most Americans avoid. Oluo tackles specific questions — about privilege, police brutality, cultural appropriation, and microaggressions — with directness and actionable frameworks. Essential for anyone moving beyond awareness into real dialogue.

Ibram X. Kendi

The National Book Award–winning history of how racist ideas were invented — not inherited. Kendi traces five centuries of anti-Black thought through five American intellectuals, from Cotton Mather to Angela Davis, revealing that racist ideas were designed to justify racist policy — not the other way around.

Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

Reynolds reimagines Kendi's National Book Award–winning Stamped from the Beginning for teen readers without compromising on substance. A fast-paced remix covering centuries of racist ideology, the systems that built it, and the activists who fought back — genuinely essential at any age.

Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Robin DiAngelo

DiAngelo examines the defensive patterns — anger, silence, denial — that white people deploy when race is raised, and argues these responses reinforce racial inequality rather than challenging it. A widely read and debated foundational text in antiracism education.