This week Alice and Kim talk Pride reads, new release nonfiction, and more.

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Nonfiction in the News

Entertainment Weekly: “Warner Bros. makes Just Mercy available for free as education on ‘systemic racism’”

Book Riot: “Listen to Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi on Spotify

New Books

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin

How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See by Emily Pilloton.

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore

Pride Month

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones

The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Reading Now

KIM: Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones

The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

ALICE: Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

CONCLUSION

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