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VTReads 2020 Online Challenge
Here are some activities to do at home as you enrich your experience with this year’s read, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. You may have already read the book, even seen the movie. We encourage you to take another look at this beautiful work of intelligently crafted fiction—read it like historical fiction, and re-imagine your place in our society. Think about all of the things we can do together and apart to make our communities safer spaces for all.
The following activities are not exhaustive. Not all of them are wholly online (apologies) and some of the themes will likely make you uncomfortable. It’s okay to be uncomfortable when you’re out of your element—that’s where the real work takes place. It is not necessary to complete all of the activities to participate in the challenge. It is our hope that when we re-open we can continue the journey of reading and discovering each other in the library and that the fruitful and interesting conversations this text generates will enrich your life for the better.
Keep track of your progress with the Fillable Checklist or Printable Checklist and email your results to the library.
- Read The Hate U Give eBook Audiobook
- Read supporting titles (please be patient as we locate digital copies)
- Adams, Blumenfeld, Castaneda, Hackman, Peters, & Zinga Reading for Diversity and Social Justice
- Ahmed, Samira Internment Book eBook Audiobook
- Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies Book eBook
- Anderson, Carol We Are Not Yet Equal Book
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi Between the World and Me Book Audio CDs Audiobook
- Daniels, Cora. Impolite Conversations Book
- Henson, S. F. Devils Within Book eBook
- Kendi, Ibrahim X. How to Be an Antiracist Book eBook Audiobook
- Kerascoët I Walk With Vanessa Book
- Khan, Hena Amina’s Voice Book
- Lewis, John. March: Book 1, 2, & 3 Book1 Book2 Book3 eBook
- Mckesson, DeRay On the Other Side of Freedom Book
- Magoon, Kekla How It Went Down Book eBook
- Magoon, Kekla Light It Up Book
- Markel, Michelle Brave Girl Book
- Reynolds, Jason All American Boys Book eBook Audiobook
- Stone, Nic Dear Martin Book eBook
- Watson, Renee Piecing Me Together Book eBook
- Woodson, Jacqueline Harbor Me Book
- Anderson, Carol White Rage Book
- Baraka, Amiri S.O.S.: Poems 1961-2013 Book
- Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a Constant Struggle Book
- Saad, Layla F. Me and White Supremacy Book eBook
- *physical copies may be requested for curbside pickup. Call/email staff for more details and assistance.
- Watch the music videos for
- Janelle Monae Tightrope
- Childish Gambino This is America
- Beyonce Formation
- Listen to Angie Thomas’s playlist on Spotify
- Watch a film
- Get Out
- Black Panther
- PBS ‘The Talk’ (free online)
- PBS ‘Slavery By Another Name’ (free online)
- TED Talk - Jamila Lyiscott 3 Ways to Speak English
- TED Talk – Verna Myers How To Overcome Our Biases
- Do the Right Thing
- Coming to America
- 13th (free online)
- NYT short films about blackness
- Answer film discussion questions for one or more films Printable Version Fillable Version
- Locate your local Black Lives Matter chapter
- Complete the personal identity intersection worksheet
- Read an article about white privilege as a ‘broke white person’
- Watch TaNehisi Coates explain the proper usage of the n-word
- Play ’Black Jeopardy’ online! use Kahoot alone or with friends - tournament coming soon!
- Listen to NPR podcast ‘Codeswitch’
- Read Tupac’s poetry
- Take the Project Implicit Assessment
- Find a story and reflect on goodblacknews.com