In episode five, Nicole and Tori recommend books that help to combat racism while celebrating the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System's latest funding from the Mississippi Humanities Council via its Anti-Racism Reading Shelf grant. The grant is financially supported by Mississippians and the National Endowment for Humanities.
Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon and A. LaFaye, illustrated by Jessica Gibson;
The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, and Truth edited by Wade and Cheryl Willis Hudson;
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo;
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young;
Butterfly by Ashley Antoinette;
How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin;
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin;
On the Corner of Hope and Main by Beverly Jenkins;
The Blessings Series by Beverly Jenkins;
Be My Eyes mobile application;
Ray film;