Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
$16.95 Read moreA Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed–about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith–in search of the truth about her son.
“The memoir- Author: Harris, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221621
- Language: English
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After Botham: Healing from My Brother’s Murder by a Police Officer
$19.99 Read moreOn September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from the daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’… [more below]
- Author: Charles-Findley, Allisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0827201133
- Language: English
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Quilt of Souls: A Memoir
$24.99 Read moreThe Yellow House meets Hidden in Plain View in this multigenerational memoir that celebrates African American quilting, family, and honoring the past.
At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked of- Author: Biffle Elmore, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1623545161
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
$22.00 Add to cartAt once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0679601511
- Language: English
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Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
$28.00 Read moreAt the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-winning entrepreneur and founder of MoviePass, reveals the tools he’s used to persevere in the face of adversity, defy stereotyp
- Author: Spikes, Stacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739566
- Language: English
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Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
$35.00 Add to cartMal Goode (1908-1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the Univers… [more below]
- Author: Tsoukas, Liann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948222
- Language: English
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Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience
$26.00 Read more“My grandparents used to tell me Rwanda is a country unlike any other, and I knew they spoke the truth. Blessed with majestic mountains and breathtaking valleys, it is a sacred and spiritual land. And
- Author: Nkuranga, Alpha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1773103342
- Language: English
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The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation
$28.95 Read moreWith Kamala Harris’s rise, American Blacks are entering a new phase in the struggle against white supremacy. Standing firmly in the African American tradition, Walton believes in the possibility of re
- Author: Walton, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927289
- Language: English
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Being Black in America’s Schools: A Student-Educator-Reformers Call for Change
$28.00 Read moreFor readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America’s public schools, the miseducation … [more below]
- Author: Fuller, Brian Rashad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1496746600
- Language: English
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Biomythography Bayou
$26.95 Read moreWhen your stories flow from the brackish waters of the Gulf South, where the land and water merge, your narratives cannot be contained or constrained by the Eurocentric conventions of autobiography. W… [more below]
- Series: Griot Project Book
- Author: Lewis, Mel Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1684484812
- Language: English
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John Lewis: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartA 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… [more below]
- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1982142995
- Language: English
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Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of “funny and compulsively readable” (Vogue), “hilarious and incisive” (Time) essays about what happens after happily … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, R. Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593496280
- Language: English
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Soft Power for the Journey: The Life of a STEM Trailblazer
$33.99 Add to cartThis is a story of an African American woman working at the highest levels in STEM. Dr. Sandra K. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in May 1988, the fi
- Author: Johnson, Sandra K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1032724250
- Language: English
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The Fastest Bicycle Rider In The World: The Story of a Colored Boy’s Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Taylor, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: August 27 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985119404
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963
$45.00 Add to cartThe two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois–the premier arch- Author: Lewis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0805088059
- Language: English
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From Orphan to Greatness: An African Story
$17.95 Add to cartDuring one of his memorable speeches, President JFK declared, Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. This speech marked the beginning of the Peace Corps program
- Author: T. Adade, Pierre Komi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1662430396
- Language: English
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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland
$19.99 Add to cart“Thompson-Hern ndez’s portrayal of Compton’s black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton’s young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910612
- Language: English
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Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
$19.99 Add to cartA family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present.
In 1791,- Author: Webster, Rachel Jamison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250871808
- Language: English
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
$27.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024
Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614849
- Language: English
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Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make–from the founder and CEO of Klutch Sports Group and one of the most influential figures in the multibillion-dollar sports i… [more below]
- Author: Paul, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0593448499
- Language: English
