Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

This documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of James Baldwin’s friends and Civil Rights leaders: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Delving into the legacy of these iconic figures, the film narratives historic events using Baldwin’s original words and a flood of rich archival material.

This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. Book one spans Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through lunch counter sit-ins.

Isabel Wilkerson explores how the the U.S. today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. She uses riveting stories about real people, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to baseball’s Satchell Page, to illustrate the insidious undertow of caste.

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection: a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. It is divided into three parts, the second of which is a searching meditation on Martin Luther King, Jr.

On the verge of enrolling in a local Black college, Elwood Curtis is instead sentenced to a juvenile reformatory soon revealed as a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood tries to hold onto Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assertion, “Throw us in jail and we will still love you,” while his friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive. The boy’s tension between ideals and skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.

Born into a ‘formerly untouchable family in small-town India,’ Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear ‘Dalit looking.’ Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating analysis of caste’s influence in India and how it has carried over to US institutions.

Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. These stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon. A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors.

‘In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.’ Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations -- those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square.

Bob was determined to solve, in one stroke, the problems of overpopulation and racism. The charming, larger-than-life lawyer and his brilliant wife, Sheryl, launched a radical experiment to raise their two biological sons alongside four children adopted from Korea, Vietnam, and the South Bronx. Matthew Pratt Guterl, one of the children, narrates a family saga of astonishing originality, in which even the best intentions would prove woefully inadequate.

The immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything parents would want for their children. But after a series of racist incidents became public, a plan to promote inclusiveness was proposed in response -- and a coordinated, well-funded conservative backlash erupted, lighting the fire of a national movement on the verge of changing the face of public schools across the country.

Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. This has left many vital questions unasked and unanswered -- until now. Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million -- all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the 20th century.