You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black ExperienceIt started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Bren Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Bren assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Bren started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang. But it was immediately clear to Bren that the

the after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights movement

and how perceptions are made tangible by reality

she's invited to Nigeria for the funeral

and musician Prince

16-year-old Bree Matthews

price and humility

weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression

She's sort of neglected to come out to her mom for years

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom

where millions of immigrants who came before her paved their own paths

Pennsylvania--derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic