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My Account Toggle Navigation Search Navigation Toggle Library Hours Main navigation Using the Library Get a Card Check Out & Renew Meeting & Study Rooms Computers & Printing Bookmobile Project Smyles Other Services Contact Us Books, Movies & More Library Catalog Stream & Download Special Collections Book Store & Sales Recommendations Request an Item Events & News COVID-19 Updates Event Calendar Library News Page One Newsletter Meeting & Study Rooms Learn & Explore Online Learning Local History Family Teens Civics Center Art at the Library Sustainability Get Involved Book Store & Sales Volunteer Teen Advisory Group Donate Ames Public Library Friends Foundation Jobs Catalog Website Keywords My Account My Account Contact Us Stream & Download Meeting Rooms Support the Library Family Teens Bookmobile Use Your Voice How We Fight White Supremacy Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin A celebration of Black resistance and leadership in all its varied forms, offering a blueprint for what the fight for freedom and justice looks like -- and how each of us can contribute.Americans today are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, women's rights, and civil rights. If you're Black in America, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, African Americans subvert and resist life-threatening forces as a matter of course. View Catalog Entry View Details Policing the Black Man Angela J. Davis A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. View Catalog Entry View Details Open Season Ben Crump The president of the National Bar Association and one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys working today reflects on the landmark cases he has battled—including representing Trayvon Martin’s family—and offers a disturbing look at how the justice system is used to promote injustice in this memoir and clarion call as shocking and important as the bestsellers Just Mercy and Slavery by Another Name and Ava DuVernay’s film 13th. View Catalog Entry View Details notes of a native son James Baldwin Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. View Catalog Entry View Details White Fragility Robin J. DiAngelo Explores counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality. View Catalog Entry View Details When They Call You a Terrorist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. View Catalog Entry View Details How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it--and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. View Catalog Entry View Details The Half Has Never Been Told Edward E. Baptist Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. View Catalog Entry View Details Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review O: The Oprah Magazine The Washington Post People Entertainment Weekly Vogue Los Angeles Times San Francisco Chronicle Chicago Tribune New York. View Catalog Entry View Details Upcoming Events Primary tabs Upcoming Month Week This event is in the "All Ages" group. Sep-Nov 15 2020 Read the World Challenge All Day 9/15 - 11/15 All Ages This event is in the "All Ages" group. Sep-Nov 15 2020 Read the World Challenge All Day 9/15 - 11/15 All Ages Library Branch: Ames Public Library Room: Ames Public Library Age Group: All Ages Program Type: Reading Incentive Program Program Details: FOR ALL AGES SEPT. 15 - NOV. 15, 2020 Supported by the Ames Public Library Friends Foundation. At Ames Public Library, we celebrate all the ways our differences come together to make our community a better place to grow and thriv... Ames Public Library connects you to the world of ideas through diverse and inclusive resources and programs. We welcome program proposals via our website at bit.ly/APLprogram . This event is in the "Adults" group. Nov 15 2020 Sun Great Books 1 2:00pm - 4:00pm Adults This event is in the "Adults" group. Nov 15 2020 Sun Great Books 1 2:00pm - 4:00pm Adults Library Branch: Ames Public Library Room: Dale H. Ross Board Room Age Group: Adults Program Type: Book Discussion Program Details: Discuss classic short stories and essays recommended by the Great Books Foundation. Registration is full for Great Books 1. Call (515) 239-5646 ext. 4 to learn more. Supported by the Ames Public Library Friends Foundation. ... Ames Public Library connects you to the world of ideas through diverse and inclusive resources and programs. We welcome program proposals via our website at bit.ly/APLprogram . This event is in the "Family" group. Nov 17 2020 Tue Storytime Online 10:00am - 10:30am Family This event is in the "Family" group. Nov 17 2020 Tue Storytime Online 10:00am - 10:30am Family Library Branch: Online Age Group: Family Program Type: Storytime Program Details: Join us for a storytime with your Ames Public Library friends on Facebook! You can also watch past storytimes on our YouTube channel. ... Ames Public Library connects you to the world of ideas through diverse and inclusive resources and programs. We welcome program proposals via our website at bit.ly/APLprogram . This event is in the "Adults" group. Nov 18 2020 Wed Genealogy Plus 10:00am - 12:00pm Adults Open Registration This event is in the "Adults" group. Nov 18 2020 Wed Genealogy Plus 10:00am - 12:00pm Adults Open Library Branch: Ames Public Library Room: Farwell T. Brown Auditorium Age Group: Adults Program Type: History/Genealogy , Presentation Registration Required Seats Remaining: 179 Program Details: Topic: Working for a Living, the Government Way Speaker: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg This introduction to the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration will provide an overview to both programs, as well as discussing... Ames Public Library connects you to the world of ...