Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
$28.00 Read moreMicrosoft’s associate general counsel shares this story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York
- Author: Jackson, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982191155
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Le- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980034
- Language: English
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I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson
Before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball’s stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all w
- Author: Robinson, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0060555971
- Language: English
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The Love You Save: A Memoir
$28.99 Read more*A Zibby’s Most Anticipated Book of 2023*
*One of The Root‘s Most Anticipated Books of January*
*A Good Morning America Best Book of January?*
*An Essence Must Read Book of the Year*
*A St. Louis Post-Dis… [more below]- Author: Taylor, Goldie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 133544937X
- Language: English
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American Negra: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cartAward-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cu
- Author: Alford, Natasha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0063237105
- Language: English
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Keep it Moving Forward: Maneuvering Through Life’s Journeys
$38.65 Add to cartWhat does it take to persevere in the face of obstacles?
How can we overcome our fears to live our dreams?
In this inspirational memoir, Darren Peters shares deeply personal stories rooted in his own
- Author: Peters, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988428503
- Language: English
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Deep North: Stories of Somali Resettlement in Vermont
$14.00 Add to cartWhat is it like to leave your home, friends and family and start a new life in a foreign country? How does one survive war in Africa and make a new life in one of the smallest, coldest, whitest corner
- Author: Kessler, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1957184388
- Language: English
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
$18.99 Add to cartA STEPHEN CURRY’S BOOK CLUB PICK
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ALLIANCE BESTSELLER
“A story of triumph and resilience centered around those who dedicated their lives to the Civil Rights movement. It
- Author: Dennis Jr, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063011433
- Language: English
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Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
$17.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[A] scorching treatise on toxic masculinity. Joseph’s critiques of “the patriarchy… both overt and ingrained” are razor-sharp, but it’s the clear-eyed reckoning of his own
- Author: Joseph, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0063138328
- Language: English
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
$30.00 Read moreA biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he … [more below]
- Author: Riley, Jason L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619684
- Language: English
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Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I’ll Show You Our Connection
$18.99 Add to cartDear White Woman, Please Come Home is Kimberlee Yolanda Williams’ invitation to white women longing for authentic friendship with Black and brown women, the kind of friendship with no place for secret
- Author: Williams, Kimberlee Yolanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 2, 2022
- ISBN10: 099133132X
- Language: English
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More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered about the White Mother He Never Knew
$27.00 Add to cartAn award-winning journalist tells the “riveting” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met–and how faith brought them all
- Author: Blake, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593443047
- Language: English
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Celia, a Slave
$21.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her ensl… [more below]
- Series: Gender and Slavery #5
- Author: McLaurin, Melton a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360961
- Language: English
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Journal of a Black Queer Nurse
$16.95 Add to cartIn this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.
Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class… [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Britney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 9, 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173776
- Language: English
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The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind
$18.99 Add to cartReminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody’s Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author’s ever-changing relationships with her grandmot
- Author: Savage, Jodi M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063276089
- Language: English
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Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock!, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed- Author: Lewis-Giggetts
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982176563
- Language: English
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Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”
$29.99 Read moreAward-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice–and what it takes to find shelter.
Lessons for Survival is a probing seri- Author: Raboteau, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1250809762
- Language: English
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Reverend Ike: An Extraordinary Life of Influence
$32.00 Add to cart- Author: Hansen, Mark Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888452660
- Language: English
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
$28.95 Add to cart“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”
–Ibram X. KendiThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.
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- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1642595683
- Language: English
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Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
$28.00 Read moreOne hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History, an inspiring collection of exemplary Black voices–
- Author: Holland, Joseph H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496743253
- Language: English
