Digital Library
Welcome to Our New Digital Library
Our new library will let you sort, filter and search for resources in one place. Compiled by CHCANYS staff the library contains tools, materials, reference guides, video recordings and more from a variety of topic areas. From Digital Health and Clinical resources to Policy and Advocacy materials, find everything you need in one convenient database.
The Fire Next Time
Nobody Knows My Name (1961-the year of the Freedom Riders) and The Fire Next Time (1963-the year of the March on Washington) were first published when the civil rights movement was in full sway across the United States. Read More »
The Next American Revolution
The pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer’s vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism. Read More »
Raising Our Hands
White American women are no monolith. Read More »
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Read More »
Ebony & Ivy
A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. Read More »
Black Feminist Thought
In Black Feminist Thought , Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. Read More »
Race Matters
The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. Read More »
Citizen
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Read More »
Between the World and Me
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Read More »
Emergent Strategy
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Read More »
The Nickel Boys
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Flo Read More »
White Tears/Brown Scars
Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Read More »