Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
$28.99 Add to cartA seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982195304
- Language: English
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I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
$26.00 Read moreIn the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos (“Before You Call the Cops” and “Walking While Black”), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a black man in America with truth, humor, and poignancy.
- Author: Merritt, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1546029419
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartThis “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century’… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619617
- Language: English
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Daddy’s House: A Daughter’s Memoir of Setbacks, Triumphs & Rising Above Her Roots
$19.99 Add to cartA raw and poignant memoir of a daughter’s journey from a difficult upbringing in rural Alabama to a fulfilling life as a wife and mother with a successful career far beyond the limitations of her upbr
- Author: Mills, Mildred J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1961757273
- Language: English
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Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
$18.99 Add to cartA startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
When George Washington was e- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1501126415
- Language: English
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The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition
$19.99 Add to cartIn the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-American travelers could have a hard time finding towns where they were legally allowed to stay at night and hotels, restaurants, and service
- Author: Green, Victor H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: November 20, 2018
- ISBN10: 1684116562
- Language: English
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
$29.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history–until now.
“This is the kind of history I wi- Author: Valby, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593317521
- Language: English
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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family,
- Series: National Book Award Winner
- Author: Broom, Sarah M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30, 2020
- ISBN10: 0802149030
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
$32.00 Add to cartONE OF TIME‘S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, an- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0345379756
- Language: English
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with a Foreword by Bryan Stevenson
$22.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE
“A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive direct- Author: Rembert, Winfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639731466
- Language: English
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Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
$28.00 Read moreAn unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are- Author: Ford, Dionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 164503013X
- Language: English
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What Winners Won’t Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender
$28.99 Add to cartAs a two-time Super Bowl champion, three-time Pro-Bowler, first round draft pick, and former Jim Thorpe Award recipient, Malcolm Jenkins knows a thing or two about winning.
Over the course of his thi- Author: Jenkins, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668004496
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$26.00 Add to cartHere is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0375507892
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
$6.00 Add to cartBorn in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486287386
- Language: English
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The Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium
$39.99 Add to cartYou’ve heard the tales, you’ve watched the movie, but have you seen The Green Book?
During the dangerous days of Jim Crow segregation, it was difficult to be an African-American traveler, as hotels tha
- Author: Green, Victor H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: April 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 1949996107
- Language: English
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Black Boy
$21.99 Add to cartA special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright’s powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South–a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0061443085
- Language: English
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
$21.95 Add to cartLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate f
- Author: Payne, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1324091053
- Language: English
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Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s
- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 1401921906
- Language: English
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
$18.99 Add to cartAn “engrossing and important book” (Wall Street Journal) that brings to life the fateful friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obno- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465093221
- Language: English
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
$23.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present–edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of… [more below]
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593449347
- Language: English
