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Blood in My Eye
$22.95 Read moreBlood In My Eye was completed only days before it’s author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, G… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, George L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: December 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121237
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$5.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crim- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529944
- Language: English
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
$19.99 Add to cart“hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” –Cornel West
More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo moveme- Series: Owl Book
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0805050272
- Language: English
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The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that … [more below]
- Author: McBride, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 159448192X
- Language: English
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Charles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle
$24.95 Read moreCharles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle is the first book-length biography of the artist and journalist, whose career spanned Jazz Age Paris to modern New Orleans. He found himself at th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1959569279
- Language: English
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Ne- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 157322989X
- Language: English
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Ne- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 157322989X
- Language: English
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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
$19.95 Read moreIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, i
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 029574572X
- Language: English
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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
$19.95 Read moreIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, i
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 029574572X
- Language: English
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A River Is Made: From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines, Iowa – An Afghan Refugee’s Journey from War to Belonging in America
$16.99 Add to cartA River is Made is the true story of a life carried across borders, wars, and generations, told through the eyes of its author, Fazal Moneer Adil. From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines… [more below]
- Author: Adil, Fazal Moneer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993234403
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartFifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful an… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036009
- Language: English
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Charles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle
$24.95 Add to cartCharles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle is the first book-length biography of the artist and journalist, whose career spanned Jazz Age Paris to modern New Orleans. He found himself at th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1959569279
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin
$21.00 Add to cartAssembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.
It follows Lorr- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0679764151
- Language: English
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From Abuse to God’s Blessings: A Memoir of His Grace and Glory
$18.99 Add to cartGrowing up in rural Missouri, Jim Kissock’s childhood was anything but idyllic. Between his alcoholic father’s abuse, his parents’ divorce, and being trapped in a home dominated by violence and fear,
- Author: Kissock, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999069214
- Language: English
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Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard
$60.00 Add to cart- Author: Whitehead, Jessica K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1985901544
- Language: English
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Unmothered, Untongued: Lyric Essays
$27.95 Add to cartunMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving to… [more below]
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Roripaugh, Lee Horikoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374415
- Language: English
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Positively Uncivilized
$20.99 Add to cartInaugural winner of Raven Chronicles Press’s Keepers of the Fire Prize for Nonfiction in 2025, Positively Uncivilized examines, from an Indigenous perspective, the impact of human inhabitants on the p
- Author: Priest, Rena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991403238
- Language: English
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black work… [more below]
- Author: McCall, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679740708
- Language: English
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Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries
$28.95 Add to cartIn the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.
In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box
- Author: Jones, Jeremy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888532
- Language: English
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
$21.99 Add to cart“Urgently required reading.” —People
“Deeply affecting… Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative.” —The New Yorker
“Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria…a- Author: Fleming, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250106001
- Language: English
