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Together We Heal: A Reading List

In support of Chicago's Year of Healing 2022, we've gathered these titles to help readers reflect on our past, reclaim our present and reimagine our future.

Chicago Public Library

10 items

  • The 1619 Project

    a New Origin Story

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — E441.A15 2021
  • Black Fatigue

    How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

    Winters, Mary-Frances,
    PaperbackOakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2020] — RC451.5.N4W46 2020
  • The Ground Breaking

    the Tulsa Race Massacre and An American City's Search for Justice

    Ellsworth, Scott (Historian),
    Paperback[New York, New York] : Dutton, 2022. — F704.T92E443 2022
  • How the Word Is Passed

    a Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

    Smith, Clint,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — E185.S58123 2021
  • My Grandmother's Hands

    Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

    Menakem, Resmaa,
    PaperbackLas Vegas : Central Recovery Press, 2017. — E185.615.M38 2017
  • The Sum of Us

    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    McGhee, Heather, 1980-
    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — E185.8.M38 2021
  • PaperbackNew York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021. — E185.615.D97 2021
  • White Rage

    the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine),
    PaperbackNew York : Bloomsbury, 2016. — E185.61.A5438 2016
  • You Are Your Best Thing

    Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience : An Anthology

    BookNew York : Random House, [2021] — BF575.S45Y68 2021