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Among the bookstores offering books to help understand racism, anti-racism and the anger about the murder of George Floyd and other unarmed black people are these:
The Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, Minn., created a "Black Lives Matter" list that includes books about "civil rights, racism and anti-racism."
On Twitter, Raven Book Store, Lawrence, Kan., has an "antiracist reading list."
BookPeople, Austin, Tex., also has an "anti-racist reading list."
The New York Times offered an "anti-racist reading list" from Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and How to Be an Antiracist.