Every Day in the USA: 30 Black Moments accomplishes what so many other efforts to raise racial awareness miss: immediately recognizable and thought provoking vignettes that make powerful points in a quick glance. Anika Nailiah applies her daily experiences as a black woman with her years of racial equity consulting work, offering astutely layered entry points to understanding the daily indignities people of color endure in America, so often at the hands of well-intended but oblivious white people. C. Andrew William's illustrations are perfectly executed to bring the points home. Readers are quickly engaged on multiple levels, and each page has the potential to prompt hours of much needed discussion. This is an indispensable tool for workshops, book groups, and coffee tables.
With spare prose and captivating illustrations, Every Day in the USA: 30 Black Moments invites readers to pause and take stock of the enduring expressions of everyday racism. Each vignette affords an opportunity to individually examine and collectively discuss the impacts of microaggressions, the structures and institutions that support racism, and the practices of social justice. I am confident this book will become a vital resource in my teaching.