Lawrence Hill Books
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Past the Pain: How to Emerge from Trauma with Purpose
$28.99 Add to cartForty minutes on February 21, 2019, changed Anjanette Young’s life forever. Her story made national news for months after it broke: A forty-eight-year-old social worker was winding down at home after … [more below]
- Author: Young, Anjanette L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 089733759X
- Language: English
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A Seat at the Table: The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
$30.00 Read moreWhen Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her?
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to ru… [more below]- Author: Starks, Glenn L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1641609265
- Language: English
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
$19.95 Add to cartConnecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on t… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Rickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613744927
- Language: English
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The Afrofuturist Evolution: Creative Paths to Self-Discovery
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Womack, Ytasha L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0897334558
- Language: English
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The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World
$27.99 Add to cart“I’m still getting the brakes fixed and when that’s done I’m coming to see you, probably in a couple of weeks. As I keep fixing this and that the car will finally become reliable from bumper to bumper… [more below]
- Author: Luders-Manuel, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1641609834
- Language: English
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Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
$14.95 Read moreMore than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. T… [more below]
- Author: Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), H. Rap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1556524528
- Language: English
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The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
$19.99 Add to cartGoing far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta–ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks–this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man w… [more below]
- Author: Lee, H?l?ne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1556525583
- Language: English
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Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
$10.95 Read moreInsightful and fun, this collection of poetry captures the essence of the African American experience for young people.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: November 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1556521898
- Language: English
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Black Girl Irl: Life Between the Mess and the Magic
$19.99 Add to cartEbony Get Lit! March 2024 Pick
Whatever happened to the regular Black girl?
The one who works a nine-to-five or maybe owns her own business or is completing her master’s. Or how about the one figuri- Author: Azodo, Gail Hamilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 164160929X
- Language: English
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Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
$14.99 Read moreSkipping Stones Multicultural & International Awareness Books Honor Award
No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. A 14-y- Author: Wright, Simeon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1569768196
- Language: English
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The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
$16.99 Read moreIn the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history–the Supremes–told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1556529597
- Language: English
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Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot
$28.99 Read moreSimmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air strikes off the coast of North Vietnam.
T- Author: Truhe, Marv
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 164160784X
- Language: English
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We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything
$28.99 Read moreBlack Chicago culture is American culture.
During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying what- Author: Nettles, Arionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608307
- Language: English
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
$18.99 Read moreOvernight Code tells the story of Raye Montague, an ambitious little girl from segregated Little Rock who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she coul… [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1641608455
- Language: English
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The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
$19.99 Read moreThis expos investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven int… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613744919
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Add to cartPoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America
$26.99 Read more“You’ll find hope in these pages. ” –Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life
* 2023 Kansas Notable Books Letters to Martin contains twelve meditations on contemporary political struggles for our oxygen- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1641606037
- Language: English
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
$18.95 Read moreCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from … [more below]
- Author: Glave, Dianne D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1556527667
- Language: English
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
$27.99 Add to cartTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and- Author: Cope, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604522
- Language: English
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Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State
$16.95 Add to cartThis expanded edition continues Diop’s campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.
- Author: Diop, Cheikh Anta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: June 01 1987
- ISBN10: 1556520611
- Language: English
