Recommended Reading
The following is a list of best-sellers and award-winning reading materials for your leisure.
Check back periodically for updated lists
The Girl Who Fell from The Sky
Author: Heidi W. Durrow
2011
Author: Roxanne Gay
2017
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Author: Bryan Stevenson
2014
Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age
Author: Mae Elise Cannon
2020
Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism
Author: Allissa V Richardson
2020
Author: Kae Tempest
2020
Author: Ai, Weiwei, et. al.
2018
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Author: Alicia Garza
2020
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Author: Maria Hinojosa
2020
Author: Kelly Rimmer
2019
Author: Adiva Geffen
2019
Author: Elie Wiesel
2006
Author: Anneliese A Singh; Machelle Williams
2021
We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Author: Mariame Kaba
2021
Author: Alex Tremblador
2018
Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team
Author: Cecilia Aragon
2020
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son
Author: Sergio Troncoso
2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Author: Carol Anderson
2020
Author: Glennon Doyle
2020
Author: Hari Ziyad
2021
Community Organizations
The following is a list of organizations that serve the community of Long Island and the greater region as a resource for issues and educational opportunities on the topic of social justice. This listing is updated periodically.\
Suffolk County Human Rights Commission
Mission Statement:
The Suffolk County Human Rights Commission's mission is to work toward the elimination of bias and discrimination. Our services also include providing speakers to community groups and businesses to explain the law and assist in the prevention of complaints.
Main Location Contact Info:
Lee Dennison Building
100 Veterans Memorial Hwy
Third Floor
Hauppauge, NY 11788
P: (631) 853-5480
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
Mission:
The Mission of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County is to teach the history of the Holocaust and its lessons through education and community outreach while promoting resistance to prejudice and advocating respect for every human being.
Contact info:
100 Crescent Beach Road
Glen Cove, NY 11542
P: (516) 571-8040
Suffolk Cooperative Library System
Mission:
The Suffolk Cooperative Library System exists to help local public libraries provide the best in traditional and innovative public library service to all the people of Suffolk County.
Contact info:
627 Sunrise Highway
Bellport, NY 11713
P: (631) 286-1600
The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights
Mission:
The Olga Lengyel Institute was established to educate teachers in the United States and other parts of the world about human rights and social justice through the lens of the Holocaust and other genocides so that such atrocities may never again take place.
Contact info:
58 East 79 Street
New York, NY 10075
P: (212) 249-5384
New York Civil Liberties Union
Mission:
The NYCLU mission is to defend and promote the fundamental principles and values embodied in the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, and the New York Constitution, including freedom of speech and religion, and the right to privacy, equality, and due process of law for all New Yorkers.
Contact info:
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
P: (212) 607-3300
Mission:
The LGBT Network is an association of non-profit organizations working to serve the LGBT community of Long Island. The mission is to celebrate and take pride in LGBT identities, care for individuals and groups in need, educate the public about those individuals and groups, address health disparities, build community, and empower all Long Islanders. The Center particularly works to help those most underserved through addressing heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Contact info:
Suffolk Center
125 Kennedy Drive
Suite 100
Hauppauge, NY 11788
P: (631)665-2300
The mission of the Urban League Movement is to empower African Americans and other disenfranchised individuals to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights.
Contact info:
Digital Ballpark
110 Terminal Drive
Plainview, NY 11803
P: (516) 900-1374
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Center for Social Justice and Human Understanding
Ammerman Campus
Huntington Library 102
533 College Road
Selden, NY 11784
(631) 451-4117
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