Blog / Book Giveaways

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

By Porchlight

President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter—from the international stage to everyday life.

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The Core of the Fight: The Continued Struggle for Equal Voting Rights in America

By Stacey Abrams

Voting is an act of faith. It is profound. In a democracy, it is the ultimate power. Through the vote, the poor can access financial means, the infirm can find health care supports, and the burdened and heavy-laden can receive a measure of relief from a social safety net that serves all.

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Books to Watch | June 16, 2020

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams

By Porchlight

In this groundbreaking guide, a management expert outlines the transformative leadership skill of tomorrow—one that can make it possible to build truly diverse and inclusive teams which value employees’ need to belong while being themselves.

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Accountable Leadership

By Vince Molinaro

It is time to stop settling and tolerating mediocrity from our leaders. We need leaders to be truly accountable.

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The Criminalization and Enslavement of the Poor

By Ben Crump

Slavery was officially abolished in America more than 150 years ago, but the desire to replace its cheap labor source and funnel finances into private for-profit prisons has given rise to an immoral system that consciously and unconsciously criminalizes and imprisons Black and brown Americans.

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Books to Watch | June 9, 2020

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and XI Threatens a New Cold War

By Porchlight

This is the inside story of the US–China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, D.C., the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.

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The Undocumented Americans

Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg

Cornejo Villavicencio hands us a portrait of the continuous fight to exist in an America that thinks you are anything but American.

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My Racist Introduction

By Ibram X Kendi

"After taking this grueling journey to the dirt road of antiracism, humanity can come upon the clearing of a potential future: an antiracist world in all its imperfect beauty. It can become real if we focus on power instead of people, if we focus on changing policy instead of groups of people. It’s possible if we overcome our cynicism about the permanence of racism."