A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
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Create Date:2021-05-26 09:19:20
Update Date:2025-09-07
Status:finish
Author:Steven S. Rogers
ISBN:1119794773
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Reviews
Brenda,
This is a much needed and practical book to help people identify real, actionable ways to help the black community。 It’s simple, really, the way the author explains it: use your money。 Donate to historically black colleges, use black-owned banks, support black-owned businesses, and push our elected leaders to do something about reparations。 We all have the power to help enact change, and it’s a great and simple way to do it。 The author gets a bit long-winded at times—he was quite proud to mentio This is a much needed and practical book to help people identify real, actionable ways to help the black community。 It’s simple, really, the way the author explains it: use your money。 Donate to historically black colleges, use black-owned banks, support black-owned businesses, and push our elected leaders to do something about reparations。 We all have the power to help enact change, and it’s a great and simple way to do it。 The author gets a bit long-winded at times—he was quite proud to mention his changes to Harvard, and rightfully so—but the dearth of his research and personal experiences are beneficial to the overall book。 I learned some thing about history I didn’t know, most notably about black Wall Street in Tulsa。 That flaw is just one of many he’s able to point out through the pages of this book。Anyway, when you get right down to it it’s easy。 Use your money。 。。。more