Starting the Conversation: Adult Nonfiction

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1. The end of policing

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Author:
Vitale, Alex S.
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Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in combination. The core of the problem must be addressed: the nature of modern policing itself.
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2. The other Wes Moore: one name, two fates

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Author:
Moore, Wes, 1978-
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Traces the parallel lives of two youths with the same name in the same community, describing how the author grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar and promising business leader while his counterpart suffered a life of violence and imprisonment.

3. Some of my best friends are Black: the strange story of integration in America

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Author:
Colby, Tanner
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North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 COLBY
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Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church.