Dapper Dan by Daniel Day is a memoir about overcoming obstacles only to find more in the way at every turn. The story of a man navigating a world ruled by systemic racism and still finding a way to change fashion.
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A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
Matar writes with the confidence of a seasoned writer but with the excitement of a toddler reaching for a favorite sweet. It is evident, he has found himself in the middle of his own personal heaven in Siena.
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
Dreyer's English is the closest thing to porn for word nerds.
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama is funny, complex, intelligent, thoughtful, realistic, loyal, hopefully, and more. It’s so easy to water down a person to the image presented by the media; more often than not, she was left to be the woman standing behind the man in the white house. Up until Becoming, I knew very little about her life outside of the basics.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The book is pretty much summed up in the quote, “We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to be not racist. Now let’s know how to be antiracist.”
The Black Book
The Black Book is a heartbreaking history of Africans’ struggle to gain humanity, recognition, rights, and the hope for equality and citizenship in America from 1619 through the 1940s.