20 Books About Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights to Put on Your Essential Reading List

Poet and essayist Claudia Rankine's book, Citizen, unpacks racism in contemporary society, from micro-aggressions to intentional offensives. With specific instances in the twenty-first century, like media comments about tennis star Serena Williams, to coded language in daily life, Rankine illuminates how these aggressions weigh on a person's ability to speak, perform, exist in the public eye, and simply stay alive.