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Noir Collective AVL

Asheville, NC

Black-Owned LGBTQIA+ Owned Woman-Owned

Noir Collective AVL is a boutique, art gallery, and bookstore located on “The Block,” once a thriving Black business district within the East End / Valley Street neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina.

Anti-Racism Listening List

Books to further your anti-racist journey

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

Unbound by Tarana Burke

Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

Some of My Friends Are. by Deborah Plummer

The Antiracist Kid by Tiffany Jewell

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones & Renée Watson

The 1619 Project by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein

My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW & SEP

Stamped (For Kids) by Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

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