We understand our community is hurting right now. As your library, we hear you. We are here to fulfill one of our core roles by providing our residents resources offering a deeper understanding of racial injustice and civil rights in our country.
If you’re looking for resources to better understand how we got to this current moment, we invite you to check out a variety of items. No card? Apply online today and get access to our online collection.
Some of these titles can be located in our electronic resources, some are physical items you can request for curbside pickup at our locations. If you’d like to recommend an addition to our collection, we take your suggestions.
If you need help with these or any other resources, please contact us at 574-522-5669 or at reference@myepl.org
We wish all of our community members safety and peace.
BOOKS & AUDIOBOOKS
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook eAudiobook
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive ebook (opens in a new tab) Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab) Audiobook (opens in a new tab) Hoopla (opens in a new tab)
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab)
• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab) Hoopla (opens in a new tab)
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla ebook (opens in a new tab) Overdrive ebook (opens in a new tab)
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla Audiobook (opens in a new tab) Overdrive ebook (opens in a new tab)
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab)
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab) eAudiobook (opens in a new tab)
• Unapologetic by Charlene A Carruthers Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab) eAudiobook (opens in a new tab)
• The Myth of Equality by Ken Wytsma EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Hoopla ebook & eAudiobook (opens in a new tab)
• How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Hoopla ebook & eAudiobook (opens in a new tab)
• The Myth of the American Dream (opens in a new tab)by D. L. Mayfield Hoopla ebook & eAudiobook (opens in a new tab)
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown EPL Book (opens in a new tab) Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab)
• What Does It Mean to Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership by Ed Gordon EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• Good Talk Mira Jacob EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson EPL Book (opens in a new tab)
BEST SELLERS BASED ON TRUE WORLD ISSUES
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Overdrive (opens in a new tab)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Hoopla (opens in a new tab) Overdrive (opens in a new tab)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Overdrive (opens in a new tab)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker Hoopla (opens in a new tab)
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab) Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Overdrive eBook (opens in a new tab) Audiobook (opens in a new tab)
• Home by Toni Morrison Overdrive (opens in a new tab)
DOCUMENTARIES
• Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland DVD (opens in a new tab)
• I am Not Your Negro Hoopla (opens in a new tab) & DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Maya Angelou: And I Still Rise Hoopla (opens in a new tab) & DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Whose Streets? Hoopla (opens in a new tab) & DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Color of Justice Hoopla (opens in a new tab)
• Policing the Police Hoopla (opens in a new tab) & DVD (opens in a new tab)
• P.S. I Can’t Breathe Hoopla (opens in a new tab)
• The Talk: Race in America DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Central Park Five Hoopla (opens in a new tab) & DVD (opens in a new tab)
MOVIES
• Sorry to Bother You DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Blackkklansman DVD (opens in a new tab)
• The Hate U Give DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Do the Right Thing DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Just Mercy DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Fences DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Fruitvale Station DVD (opens in a new tab)
• 12 Years a Slave DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Get Out DVD (opens in a new tab)
• If Beale Street could talk DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Selma DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Spark DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Dear White People DVD (opens in a new tab) & Season 1 DVD (opens in a new tab)
• American History X DVD (opens in a new tab)
• Imitation of Life DVD (opens in a new tab)