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As the nation reels from the death of George Floyd while in police custody, many Americans struggle to grasp how these crimes against minorities can still occur in the US in 2020.

To help educate about racism, here are seven groundbreaking books — all of which are part of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Black Lives Matter reading list for adults — that illuminate the struggles faced by people of color today.

Few books capture the modern black experience like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me.” Written as a novel-length letter to his son, Coates brilliantly draws upon everything from the Civil War to his own childhood to demonstrate how racism rears its ugly head to this day.

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