The Humanity Archive

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine Fowler (2023) 416 pages

I listened to the audiobook on Hoopla narrated by the author. The book was recommended by a friend. I was unfamiliar with the author's podcast that is also called "The Humanity Archive." I love that the author loves libraries. Fowler has read much about history and picks out gems of stories featuring Black experience from across the breadth of history. In America, in particular, many of these examples have been forgotten or actively whitewashed. Fowler is an excellent storyteller. There are both traumatic stories and stories of excellence. Both injustices and uplift are important for building empathy with our fellow humans.
 

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

 We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina L. Love, 200 pages.

I picked this book as part of a reading challenge I was doing this year, specifically for "read a non-fiction book about anti-racism." And while it definitely fulfilled that prompt, I don't know that it quite followed the premise presented in the title. This is a decent book looking at the long history of racism in America and intersectional identities, but even being generous about it only about a third is even tangentially related to education.