African American & Black
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$29.00 Add to cartIn 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
- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 306829665
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$24.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix documentary
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-r- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1645030393
- Language: English
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
$34.95 Add to cartMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s ex… [more below]
- Author: Asch, Chris Myers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1469654725
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
$15.95 Add to cartWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth,
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498835
- Language: English
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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
$27.99 Add to cartThis amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen, is “the book Blac
- Author: Melville, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668005131
- Language: English
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Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
$29.00 Add to cartAfrican American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the sl
- Author: Lee, Michele Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 0692857877
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
The remarkable true story of E
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1501191063
- Language: English
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, a- Author: Woo, Ilyon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501191055
- Language: English
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
$30.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s las
Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books- Author: Hylton, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1538723697
- Language: English
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Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his “I- Author: Long, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1479818496
- Language: English
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Black Writers of the Founding Era (Loa #366): A Library of America Anthology
$40.00 Read moreA radical new vision of the nation’s founding era and a major act of historical recovery
Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity o- Author: Basker, James G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 750
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537342
- Language: English
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
$18.99 Add to cart“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”–Marg
- Author: Wills, Shomari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0062437607
- Language: English
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Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
$32.00 Add to cartHundreds of stunning images from Black history have been buried in the New York Times photo archives for decades. Four Times staff members unearth these overlooked photographs and investigate the stor… [more below]
- Author: Canedy, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 316552968
- Language: English
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MLK Jr.’s Detroit Dream Memoir of a Civil Rights Foot Solider
$15.95 Add to cartMLK Jr.’s Detroit Dream: Memoir of a Civil Rights Foot Soldier is an autobiography of an African American black girl who was indoctrinated into the civil rights movement at the age of eight when Dr. M
- Author: Sexton, Sharon Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887633800
- Language: English
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Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life
$35.00 Add to cartA photographic celebration and exploration of Black identity and experience through the twentieth century from the founder and curator of the hit multimedia platform Black Archives.
“Browsing the book- Author: Cherlise, Renata
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1984859293
- Language: English
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The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$34.99 Add to cartLearn about the most important milestones in Black history in The Black History Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow… [more below]- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0744042143
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$29.99 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestseller
-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION
-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK
-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK
-WI- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 006236359X
- Language: English
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
$21.00 Add to cart“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”
“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times mor
–Ta-Nehisi Coates- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11, 2019
- ISBN10: 0674237471
- Language: English
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The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration
$36.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They- Author: Edwards, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496230841
- Language: English
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Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
$29.99 Add to cartJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place w
- Author: Hall, Alvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063271966
- Language: English
