5 Recent Books About Racial Injustice and Unfair Trials to Read in 2026

Books about racial injustice reveal how bias can affect police work, courtrooms, prisons, and public attitudes. While many books on racism explore history, identity, politics, and education, these five focus on criminal justice and what happens when the system accepts a false story. This list features investigative nonfiction, memoir, legal fiction, and historical drama. If […]
From Arriving Too Late to Be an Actual Witness to Being a Suspect: How Racial Bias Shaped the Capital Murder Case Against Eddy Grant

Eddy Grant, as a young Black man in 1956 Mississippi, entered Black vs White by Susan Ogden Benting & Takezo Art too late to witness a terrible crime. Nineteen-year-old Eddy found his girlfriend, Lucille Washington, after her murder. He barely had time to understand what he had seen before someone struck him, and he lost […]