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The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford World's Classics)
W. E. B. Du Bois - Oxford University Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: A manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision for change. |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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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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Ive Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter
David Chariandy - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read." --Aminatta Forna"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote TamiratIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coatess Between the World and Me, acclaimed novelist David Chariandys latest is an intimate... |
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Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet
D H Dilbeck - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation... |
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Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South
Nikky Finney - University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback
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<p>The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred... |
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My life, my love, my legacy
Coretta Scott King - Playaway
Format: Audiobook
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The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born... |
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Life: Remembering Martin Luther King
Editors of Life - Time Books
Format: Book
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2009 marks the 80th birthday of a remarkable man. "Life: Remembering Martin Luther King, JR." dramatically depicts a hero's journey. Gathering together the most important photographs taken of Dr. King, the book is unique: it focuses on the man exclusively and intimately. We see him and get to know... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Random House Large Print)
Barack Obama - Random House Large Print; LRG edition
Format: Paperback
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... |
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Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Michelle Obama - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Michelle Robinson was born on the South Side of Chicago. From her modest beginnings, she would become Michelle Obama, the inspiring and powerful First Lady of the United States, when her husband, Barack Obama, was elected the forty-fourth president. They would be the first Black First Family... |
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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
Arnold Rampersad - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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For over two centuries, black poets have created verse that captures the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their variety of visions and styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry aims to offer nothing less than a definitive literary... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: The Young Reader's Edition
Gregory Mone - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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A middle-grade adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, New York Times nonfiction bestsellerHenrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, and whose cells—taken without her knowledge when she was treated for cancer... |
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Black Heroes
Jessie Carney Smith - Visible Ink Press
Format: Print book
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Brimming with information and more than 200 photographs, Black Heroes will intrigue and inspire all those who seek to know more about our nation's history. - Atlanta Metro. Black Heroes is a who's who of cultural importance to all Americans. In recognition and celebration of African... |
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Sojourner Truth - Sterling Publishing
Format: Paperback
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&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RNarrative of Sojourner Truth&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RSojourner Truth&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&R&&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship,... |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House
Format: Book
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of African American citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities.
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