African Americans
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Get Ready for War
$9.95 Add to cartThey have everything their parents’ mega-celebrity can give–but when the Pampered Princesses of Hollywood High take aim at each other, the last girl standing will have everything to lose.
London Phi
- Series: Hollywood High #02
- Author: Simone, Ni-Ni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 075827355X
- Language: English
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Drama High: Culture Clash
$16.00 Add to cartEver since she discovered a love for drag racing, it’s full speed ahead for Jayd Jackson. . .
Fed up with the way her school’s handling Cultural Awareness Day, Jayd and her crew decide to form the firs
- Series: Drama High #10
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0758231113
- Language: English
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The Best Of The Little Known Black History Facts
$12.00 Add to cartThis book attempts to present facts to help you to read between the lines to discern the truth. Read, meditate, discern, know yourself, your human self, your family self and your GOD self
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- Author: Shabazz, Lady Sala S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 04 2002
- ISBN10: 193009745X
- Language: English
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Handbook for Boys
$15.99 Add to cartIn the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially t
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0064409309
- Language: English
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16 1/2 on the Block
$16.00 Add to cartThe one and only Latina Smith is back on the block, and she’s come a long way from her freshman year at Cass High School. Where Latina once played back-up in a four member clique, she’s not only joine… [more below]
- Series: Baby Girl Drama
- Author: Daniels, Babygirl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1601621833
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$15.95 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie!
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.” — Saturday ReviewBorn a … [more below]- Series: African American
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411435
- Language: English
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A Sitting in St. James
$12.99 Add to cartWinner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!
7 starred reviews! “Monumental.” —Booklist (starred review) * “A marathon masterpiece.”–Kirkus (starred review) * “Necessary.”–SLJ (starred review) * “Sho
- Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0062367315
- Language: English
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Home: Social Essays
$20.95 Add to cart“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro–and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights–not conditional favors.” —New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered A
- Series: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354674
- Language: English
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Teahouse of the Almighty
$17.95 Add to cart“Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings.”–E. Ethelbert Miller
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1566891930
- Language: English
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Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
$16.95 Add to cartBorn in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attaché, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death… [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293151
- Language: English
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Drama High: Holidaze
$17.00 Add to cartIt’s almost Valentine’s Day at South Bay High, but romance is the last thing on Jayd Jackson’s mind. . .
If Cupid had his way, love would be in the air at South Bay High. But even though Valentine’s D
- Series: Drama High #9
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231091
- Language: English
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Step by Step: A Memoir of Living the American Dream
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1944, Bertie Bowman-a poor, impressionable thirteen-year-old-heard South Carolina senator Burnet Maybank declare: “If you all ever get up to Washington, D.C., drop by and see me ” Bertie took those… [more below]
- Author: Bowman, Bertie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2009
- ISBN10: 034550433X
- Language: English
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah: Poems
$17.95 Add to cartNational Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 27, 2012
- ISBN10: 1566892996
- Language: English
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Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
$18.99 Read moreA striking debut novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of attending an elite university with a disturbing racist history, which may not be as distant as it seems.
“A searing deb- Author: Lee, Kristen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593309154
- Language: English
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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Read moreThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
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Blood in the Streets – Racism, Riots and Murders in the Heartland of America
$21.50 Add to cartBased on actual events, the book describes in detail what it was like during urban America’s most violent decade; 1965-1975 when policing was low-tech and gritty. Dayton, Ohio experienced three riots;… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Daniel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0989845001
- Language: English
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Drama High: Cold As Ice
$15.00 Add to cartJayd Jackson’s about to take the most important test of her life. . .
With the Advanced Placement exams coming up, Jayd can’t afford any distractions. Enter Rah’s baby mama, the master of stirring up- Series: Drama High #11
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 075823113X
- Language: English
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Just Another Hero
$12.99 Add to cartJericho, November, Arielle, and their friends must step up big time to prevent a deadly school tragedy in this harrowing conclusion to Sharon M. Draper’s Jericho Trilogy.
Arielle Gresham, disliked and- Series: Jericho Trilogy #3
- Author: Draper, Sharon M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1481490303
- Language: English
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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
$19.99 Read moreHost of PBS’s Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines African-American immigration and ancestry through the lineage of famous Black Americans.
Unlike most white- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1510778853
- Language: English
