After Kristen Berthiaume spoke with her family about what role they could play in promoting racial justice in their community in Homewood, Alabama, the idea for an anti-racist library was born
Berthiaume couldn't stop thinking about Floyd, his loved ones, and the Black community as nationwide protests and demands for justice were often met with what she says was blatant racism and ignorance.After talking with her family about what role they could play in promoting racial justice in their community in Homewood, Alabama, an idea was born.
"We need acknowledgment of wrongs done and still doing, we need empathy and liberation, we need to have the hard conversations," Jones said."I let the poetry lead me as I thought through and lived through my experiences with racism and discrimination as a Black woman in America."While the shelves of the Antiracist Little Library are full of stories like hers, they also include books aimed at helping people uncover their biases and privileges, such as Ibram X.
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