Books like What's happening? by Dick Gregory

Between the World and Me is a memoir‑essay in letter form, where Ta‑Nehisi Coates addresses his teenage son about the history, violence, and ongoing reality of being Black in America.

James Baldwin’s 1963 essay collection, written as two letters for the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, confronts America’s racial injustices and urges both black and white citizens to confront the legacy of racism.

Justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson recounts his battle against wrongful convictions, life‑sentence juvenile cases, and systemic bias while seeking reform of America’s criminal justice system.

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration has become a contemporary system of racial control, striking disproportionately at African‑American men and other disadvantaged groups while perpetuating a new form of Jim Crow.

Dick Gregory dismantles enduring American myths—free elections, the Mason‑Dixon line, free enterprise, Emancipation, and Puritan Pilgrims—offering a sharp critique of the narratives that shape race relations and civil rights history.

Cornel West’s Race Matters delivers a penetrating examination of racism, black consciousness, and civil society in the United States, offering essays that remain timely and relevant for every reader in the new millennium.

Dick Gregory opens his life in sharp humor and quiet honesty, tracing his journey from a painful childhood to a leading voice in the civil‑rights movement, while sharing the laughter and tears of his fight for equality.

"This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period of black history." "The selections represent a broad spectrum of ideology. Conservative, radical, nationalistic, and integrationist approaches can be found in almost every period, yet there have been striking shifts in the evolution of social thought and activism. The editors judiciously illustrate how both continuity and change affected the African-American community in terms of its internal divisions, class structure, migration, social problems, leadership, and protest movements. They also show how gender, spirituality, literature, music, and connections to Africa and the Caribbean played a prominent role in black life and history."--BOOK JACKET.

A scholarly look at how U.S. history, race relations, and constitutional law have shaped firearms policy and civil rights.