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7 powerful, memorable books that explore racial injustice in the US 

Protests over racial injustice have taken place all over America. Image: Unsplash/Annika Gordon

Harry Kretchmer
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Image: Penguin Random House
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Image: Text Publishing
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White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. Image: Beacon Press
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I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes. Image: Simon and Schuster
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