Moved by Love
The limited ABC series Women of the Movement follows Mamie Till-Mobley as she grieves the murder of her son Emmett Till and fights for justice. Directed by four Black women, the show tells the true story of the woman who helped fuel the civil rights movement. Two Drifters.
Disability Kinship
In All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Jennifer Natalya Fink explores how ableism rooted in Nazi eugenics has erased disabled kin from our family stories. Fink calls us to embrace intersectional care and abandon our fear of disability. Beacon Press.
Divesting from Whiteness
Musician and activist Andre Henry combines memoir and manifesto in All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope—and Hard Pills to Swallow —About Fighting for Black Lives. Through personal and historical stories, Henry calls for a revolution to disrupt racial violence. Convergent Books.
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