Diverse Voices
These staff-curated lists are just a starting point in learning more about our diverse community. If you are looking for more resources, reading and otherwise, please just ask us.A Message From Our CEO
To our Waterloo community:
We stand in support of our Black customers, colleagues, family and friends. We stand against racial discrimination of any kind.
Along with libraries across Canada, WPL shows our strong commitment to ending racism by supporting the Canadian Urban Libraries Council Statement on Race & Social Equity.
This statement reflects our intent as a library to be a safe, equitable and diverse space where all are welcome.
We’ve compiled resources on Black Lives Matter, offering a starting point for conversations about racism and will continue to provide additional information as well. A critical role of the library is to help people find the resources they need to better educate themselves on topics like racism, racial violence and the struggle for equity. We are here to enhance and support the learning in any way we can.
Please don't hesitate to contact us at askus@wpl.ca or by phone at 519-886-1310 and we can help you find what you need.
Laurie Clarke
CEO, Waterloo Public Library
Black History Month
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Antonio Michael Downing
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Michelle Duster
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Ibram X Kendi
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Rebecca Carroll
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Allan Bartley
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Michael Eric Dyson
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Cecil Foster
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Barrington Walker
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Bryan Stevenson
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James Baldwin, Steve Schapiro
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Isabel Wilkerson
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Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson
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Jerald Walker
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Ingrid R.G. Waldron
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Eternity Martis
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Austin Channing Brown
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Carol Anderson
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Michelle Alexander
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Wesley Lowery
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Michael Eric Dyson
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Ijeoma Oluo
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
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Robin DiAngelo
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Desmond Cole
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Jennifer L. Eberhardt
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James Forman Jr.
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Brittney Cooper
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Saeed Jones
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Kiese Laymon
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Ibram X. Kendi
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Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott & Barbara Smith
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Layla F. Saad
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Robyn Maynard
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George Elliott Clarke
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Fred Landon
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Elliott Currie
Black Voices Matter
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Edwidge Danticat
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Ben Phillipe
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Althea Prince
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Jeffrey Colvin
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Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron
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Francesca Ekwuyasi
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Wayne Grady
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Deesha Philyaw
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Abby Collette
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Kwana Jackson
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Nnedi Okorafor
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Rivers Solomon
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Nancy Johnson
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Jesmyn Warn
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Colson Whitehead
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Chantal Gibson
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Marci Ien
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Tochi Onyebuchi
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Marlon James
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Marlon James
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Candice Carty-Williams
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Tiffany Jewell
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Angie Thomas
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Danzy Senna
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Ralph Ellison
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Nic Stone
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Elaine Welteroth
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Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Sarah M. Broom
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Elizabeth Acevedo
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Rebecca Skloot
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Jesmyn Ward
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Marlon James
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Hillard Jordan
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Roxane Gay
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edited by Glory Edim
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Zadie Smith
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Jay Coles
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Toni Morrison
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Claudia Rankine
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edited by Ibi Zoboi
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Mark Oshiro
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Yaa Gyasi
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Keah Brown
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Brit Bennett
Black Films Matter
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Universal
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Freestyle Digital Media
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Kim Stim
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
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HBO Documentary Films
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Lionsgate
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PBS Distrbution
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Paramount
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Entertainment One
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Elevation Pictures
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Mongrel Media
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Universal
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Elevation Pictures
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Entertainment One
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National Geographic
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Warner Home Video
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Disney
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Magnolia Pictures
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Magnolia Pictures
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Cinema Guild
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Universal Pictures
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Warner Home Video
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Entertainment One
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Universal
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Lionsgate
Black Children Matter
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Ibi Zoboi
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Naomi M. Moyer
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Kelly Starling Lyons
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Meena Harris
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Karen Bass
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Grace Byers
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Renée Watson
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Jerry Craft
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Christian Robinson
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Christian Robinson
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Tami Charles
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Lupita Nyong'o
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Claire Garralon
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Gloria Ann Wesley
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Nikki Grimes
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Kelly DiPucchio
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Nancy Redd
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Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson
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Elizabeth MacLeod
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Jacqueline Woodson
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Marianne Celano
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Kenneth Braswell
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R. L. Toalson
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Andrea Davis Pinkney
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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Jacqueline Woodson
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Jael Richardson
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Lisa Ramee
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Angela Joy
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Ellen Levine
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Mem Fox
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Rio Cortez
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Jewell Rhodes
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Sharee Miller
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Louise Spilsbury
Black Teens Matter
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Nic Stone
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Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite
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Tiffany D. Jackson with lyrics by Malik "Malik-16" Sharif
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Tiffany D. Jackson
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Rena Barron
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Elise Bryant
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Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam
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Zetta Elliott
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Ibi Zoboi
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Brandy Colbert
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Kacen Callender
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Ben Philippe
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Jay Coles
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Ibi Zoboi
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Mark Oshiro
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Elizabeth Acevedo
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Tiffany Jewell
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Angie Thomas
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Dean Atta
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Ben Philippe
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Ashley Woodfolk
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Namina Forna
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Angie Thomas
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Tracy Deonn