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This is a remarkable and incredibly important book. Running While Black should be required reading for everyone who runs or works in the running industry, especially my fellow white runners. It may make you uncomfortable, as it should.
This book is full of history lessons, calls to action, personal stories, and never-ending inspiration as Alison creates spaces, speaks out, disrupts, starts movements, and serves as an activist in many different ways. Alison's writing is sharp and heartfelt and
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A must-read for runners and a great read for those interested in inclusivity and dismantling white supremacy. Desir tells her story while also sharing the history of how American distance running has been whitewashed and made to be exclusionary. Educational and a little emotional. There is always room for growth and confronting my own intrinsic racism. I loved Desir’s analogies about anti-racism work being a marathon and needing to get white people off the couch - no one can get them to run exce
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