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John Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.. Born into... |
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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
Angela Shanté - Page Street YA
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Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shanté, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique... |
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I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
Lee Hawkins - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family's legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir - a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway's Memorial... |
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover
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Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books. From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith. Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess... |
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities.. Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's... |
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Growing Up Urkel
Jaleel White - Simon & Schuster Audio
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An incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters. At the tender age of twelve, Jaleel White auditioned for the role of Steve Urkel, the socially inept genius, who was in love... |
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Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
John M. Giggie - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.. On Bloody Sunday, activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and faced... |
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Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's... |
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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging... |
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John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community (Black Lives)
Raymond Arsenault - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis
For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable... |
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Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition
Calvin John Smiley - University of California Press
Format: First Edition
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Reentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex,... |
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
Kwame Alexander - Little, Brown & Company
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A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander.In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology,... |
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Uché Blackstock MD - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force of nature." - Abraham Verghese, MD, New York Times-bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone. The rousing,... |
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
RuPaul - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date - a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family,... |
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Black Meme: The History of the Images that Make Us
Legacy Russell
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A history of Black imagery that rewrites the history of visual culture and technology now. Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, |
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The Book of Ziwe: Iconic Commentary and
Ziwe Fumudoh - Abrams Image
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind functions” (New York... |
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An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
Edwin Raymond - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform. Over his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing,... |
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Judith Tick - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers... |
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To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
Tracy K. Smith - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might - together - come to a new view of our shared past. "A vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils...Hopeful...Beautiful and haunting." - Eddie... |
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Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
Joseph Holland - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Celebrating the vast breadth and scope of Black excellence, Make Your Own History spotlights the principles of success exemplified by the lives of 120 Black role models who have blazed trails throughout American history.Make Your Own History gathers together motivational quotes, historical... |
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Joseph McGill Jr. - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country - revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph... |
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Quietly Hostile: Essays
Samantha Irby - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A much-anticipated, hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam.. "America's most talented comic writer." - The New Republic"Stay-up-all-night,... |
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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
Jaha Nailah Avery - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover
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The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery... |
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Dylan C. Penningroth - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.The familiar story of civil rights goes something like this: Once, the American legal system was dominated by racist officials... |
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted... |
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
Scott Shane - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first... |
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Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
Anastasia C. Curwood - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful... |
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History
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The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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With profiles of key people, movements, and events, The Black History Book brings together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture. This vital and thought-provoking book presents a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent... |
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones - One World
Format: Hardcover
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In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred... |
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Freedom
David Hackett Fischer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal... |
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A Black Women's History of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American... |
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Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews
Stephen Drury Smith - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." -- Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn WarrenA stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer... |
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South"... |
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African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877
Steven Mintz
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A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews wi |
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
ZORA NEALE HURSTON - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy." - New York Times"One of the greatest writers of our time." - Toni Morrison"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece." - Alice WalkerA major literary event:... |
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Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Schomburg Center - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural institution documenting black life in America and worldwide. A historic branch of NYPL located in Harlem, the Schomburg holds one of the world's premiere collections... |
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
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The story begins in 1619 - a year before the Mayflower - when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants... |
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You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive... |
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Race Relations
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DeRay Mckesson - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs,... |
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We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
JABARI ASIM - Picador
Format: Paperback
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Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with... |
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
Christopher J Lebron - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States.... |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga Taylor - Haymarket Books
Format: Print book
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The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America.... |
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos."--Roxanne... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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We Were Eight Years in Power: A Journey Through the Obama Era
TA-NEHISI COATES - One World
Format: Hardcover
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In these "urgently relevant essays,"* the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"* - including the election of Donald Trump."We were eight years in power"... |
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The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Tamara Winfrey Harris - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Whats wrong with black women Not a damned thing!The Sisters Are Alright exposes antiblack-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydraservile Mammy,... |
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Who Is Black: One Nations Definition
F. James Davis
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This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was honored in 1992 as an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington... |
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
JEANNE THEOHARIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movementThe civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered... |
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the daily violence at the hands of law enforcement agents... |
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Davis - Haymarket Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality,... |
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Poetry
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Kevin Young - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect. Here, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young, this precious... |
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Brown: Poems
Kevin Young - Knopf
Format: Audiobook
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James Brown. John Browns raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection."Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed." - The New York TimesDivided... |
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Fearful Beloved
Khadijah Queen
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Poetry. African American Studies. The haunting, haunted world revealed in Khadijah Queen's FEARFUL BELOVED stays with the reader in an uncomfortably pleasurable way, and heightens awareness of our own world's deep horrors and ordinary brilliance. Anyone who has been unable to shak |
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Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
Nikki Giovanni - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred social justice movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations about the reality of life - especially Black life--in America. One of the foremost African-American writers and activists of her generation,... |
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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papps Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country.... |
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before... |
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Maya Angelou: Poems
Maya Angelou - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. |
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Say Her Name
Zetta Elliott - Jump At The Sun
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating... |
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For Every One
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers... |
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Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification... |
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Finding Me: A Memoir
Viola Davis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Finding Me is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey. Deeply personal, brutally honest, and riveting, Finding Me is a timeless... |
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
RANDOM HOUSE. - Crown
Format: Book
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In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times... |
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
PATRICK PARR - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious 19-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend seminary up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or "ML" back then, immediately found himself surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room... |
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Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
Valerie Jarrett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history.When Valerie... |
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Living in Color: What's Funny About Me
Tommy Davidson - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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In 1990, Tommy Davidson burst onto the scene in the Emmy Award-winning show In Living Color, a pioneering sketch comedy show, featuring a multi-racial cast of actors and dancers who spoke to an underrepresented new generation created by Hip Hop Nation. In this revealing memoir, Tommy shares... |
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Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
Karamo Brown - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown - Queer Eye's beloved culture expert - as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need.When Karamo Brown first auditioned... |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church... |
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The Last Black Unicorn
TIFFANY HADDISH - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal... |
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
LELAND MELVIN - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success.Leland Melvin is the only... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Now available unabridged on audio for the first timeNumber one New York Times best sellerOne of Essences 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Past 50 YearsIn this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity,... |
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Becoming
MICHELLE OBAMA - Random House Large Print
Format: Large Print
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American... |
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Just As I Am
Cicely Tyson - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer, Cicely Tyson, tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life. |
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. In 1850s... |
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Kwame Onwuachi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoreeBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most... |
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Erica Armstrong Dunbar - 37 Ink
Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history - Harriet Tubman - a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonates today.. Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most... |
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