A deeper understanding: justice and civil rights
We understand our community is hurting right now. As your library, we hear you. We are here to fulfill one of our core roles by providing our residents resources offering a deeper understanding of racial injustice and civil rights in our country.
If you’re looking for resources to better understand how we got to this current moment, we invite you to check out a variety of items. No card? Apply online today and get access to our online collection.
Some of these titles can be located in our electronic resources, some are physical items you can request for curbside pickup at our locations. If you’d like to recommend an addition to our collection, we take your suggestions.
If you need help with these or any other resources, please contact us at 574-522-5669 or at reference@myepl.org
We wish all of our community members safety and peace.
BOOKS & AUDIOBOOKS
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad EPL Book Overdrive eBook eAudiobook
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo EPL Book Hoopla Audiobook
• White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo EPL Book Overdrive ebook Audiobook
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates EPL Book Overdrive eBook Audiobook Hoopla
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi EPL Book Overdrive eBook
• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth EPL Book Overdrive eBook Hoopla
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine EPL Book Hoopla Audiobook
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson EPL Book Overdrive Audiobook
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander EPL Book Hoopla ebook Overdrive ebook
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi EPL Book Hoopla Audiobook Overdrive ebook
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein EPL Book
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson EPL Book Overdrive eBook
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois EPL Book Hoopla Audiobook
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn EPL Book Hoopla Audiobook
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin EPL Book Overdrive Audiobook
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors EPL Book Hoopla Audiobook
• Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr EPL Book Overdrive eBook eAudiobook
• Unapologetic by Charlene A Carruthers Overdrive eBook eAudiobook
• The Myth of Equality by Ken Wytsma EPL Book Hoopla ebook & eAudiobook
• How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Hoopla ebook & eAudiobook
• The Myth of the American Dream by D. L. Mayfield Hoopla ebook & eAudiobook
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown EPL Book Overdrive eBook
• What Does It Mean to Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo EPL Book
• Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership by Ed Gordon EPL Book
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz EPL Book
• How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon EPL Book
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler EPL Book
• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young EPL Book
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery EPL Book
• How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming EPL Book
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji EPL Book
• Good Talk Mira Jacob EPL Book
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson EPL Book
BEST SELLERS BASED ON TRUE WORLD ISSUES
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Overdrive
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Hoopla Overdrive
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Overdrive
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker Hoopla
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Overdrive eBook Audiobook
• Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Overdrive eBook Audiobook
• Home by Toni Morrison Overdrive
DOCUMENTARIES
• Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland DVD
• I am Not Your Negro Hoopla & DVD
• Maya Angelou: And I Still Rise Hoopla & DVD
• Whose Streets? Hoopla & DVD
• Color of Justice Hoopla
• Policing the Police Hoopla & DVD
• P.S. I Can’t Breathe Hoopla
• The Talk: Race in America DVD
• Central Park Five Hoopla & DVD
MOVIES
• Sorry to Bother You DVD
• Blackkklansman DVD
• The Hate U Give DVD
• Do the Right Thing DVD
• Just Mercy DVD
• Fences DVD
• Fruitvale Station DVD
• 12 Years a Slave DVD
• Get Out DVD
• If Beale Street could talk DVD
• Selma DVD
• Spark DVD
• Dear White People DVD & Season 1 DVD
• American History X DVD
• Imitation of Life DVD