A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community

This is a much needed and practical book to help people identify real, actionable ways to help the black community. It’s simple, really, the way the author explains it: use your money. Donate to historically black colleges, use black-owned banks, support black-owned businesses, and push our elected......more

Good and concrete ideas on how to address the racial wealth disparity in the United States. My rating is related to the quality of the writing, or maybe more realistically the quality of the editing. Stories jump around without clear transition or connection and there was quite a bit of repetition. F......more

Professor Rogers in turns tells stories, provides empirical evidence and leaves me - a white person - shaking my head at the history and currency of these issues. I have read a variety of #blm books in recent time, but this one is particularly well-written and his arguments are cogent and convincing......more

Book goes as follows: 1. Here's a bunch of horrible things that were done to Blacks in American history. 2. Therefore we should give all black people $160,000 of taxpayer money. I learned some rather horrific things about how African Americans were treated that I was not taught in high school. However,......more

I did enjoy this book and I understand the message the writer was trying to get across. This book does give good research and background for a few topics and I did learn a few things I didn't know before reading about them in this. I did have a bit of a problem with some of the jumping around in cer......more