Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most venerable politicians, The First Eight is an extraordinary work of living history: the powerful, untold story of the pioneering Black politicians from South Carolina who wer… [more below]
- Author: Clyburn, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0316572748
- Language: English
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Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of Black radical politics comes the definitive biography of Queen Mother Audley Moore–mother of modern Black Nationalism and trailblazer in the fight for reparations
“- Author: Farmer, Ashley D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593701542
- Language: English
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Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
$20.00 Add to cartNOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
WINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
FINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “I am an eighties baby who grew to hat- Author: Love, Bettina L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1250383080
- Language: English
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Mississippi’s Black Cotton
$32.95 Add to cartThe literature of the civil rights movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the movement, including, for example, Martin Luther King, but there is little focus on the MacArthur Cotto
- Author: Obee, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385493
- Language: English
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Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light
$29.99 Add to cartA deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for.
Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. It’s not a story of
- Author: Davis, Robin Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 006335313X
- Language: English
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
$22.00 Add to cartA Time Must-Read Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the l- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390400
- Language: English
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Cornerstones – Eulogies of Life & Death in Chicago
$21.99 Add to cartUnraveling the Struggle: An Urban Pastor Navigates Trauma, Grief, and Societal Challenges Amidst Chicago’s Turmoil. Speaking for the Deceased, Upholding Dignity in Tragedy.
The book Cornerstones: Eulog
- Author: Hatch, Marshall E., Sr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822966888
- Language: English
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Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison
$29.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of books by Albert Woodfox and Angela Davis comes the gripping memoir of a wrongful conviction and life on death row in Angola prison, showing how incarcerated people care for, protec… [more below]
- Author: Tyler, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166809732X
- Language: English
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Tales from the Trail – Keeping it Real on the Camino de Santiago: One African American Woman’s Quest for Clarity
$17.99 Add to cartIn April 2017, Jacquline resigned from her job. One month later, she boarded a plane headed to Spain to walk the Way of St. James. What was she thinking?
TheCamino de Santiago-AKA “The Way of St. James
- Author: Saxon, Jacquline L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822929357
- Language: English
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Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
$28.95 Add to cart“A vivid, compelling and heartrending memoir.”
“Evocative . . . Intimate yet universally resonant . . . a powerful memoir that takes us down the darkest corridors of Scientology.”
—Booklist
—Kirkus- Author: Mustard, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 163774708X
- Language: English
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Quotations of Frederick Douglass
$12.95 Add to cartNotable Quotations from Frederick Douglass
This pocket-sized hardcover book contains dozens of quotations from abolitionist, orator, social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass.
“No man can put a c
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1429095717
- Language: English
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Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X
$30.00 Add to cartA radical new examination of Malcolm X that shows how the iconic figure was always dedicated to a global movement for Black liberation
Malcolm X is one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth ce- Author: Andrews, Kehinde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030709
- Language: English
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Plain Jayne: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning actress and sports broadcaster Jayne Kennedy comes a compelling, inspirational, and unflinchingly honest memoir about her rise in Hollywood and beyond.
Jayne Kennedy is one of the m- Author: Kennedy, Jayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1368110959
- Language: English
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An Amerikan Family
$19.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ PICK
An NPR Best Book of the Year – Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
“Magnificent…. A uniquely intimate histor
- Author: Holley, Santi Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063312646
- Language: English
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What Winners Won’t Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender
$18.99 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 thir- Author: Jenkins, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 166800450X
- Language: English
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A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
$24.95 Read moreA blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist
“At thirty-seven years old I can say Shene- Author: Golding, Shenequa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007986
- Language: English
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Sink: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023, BET’S FAVORITE MEMOIRS OF 2023, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2024 “A brilliant- Author: Thomas, Joseph Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1538706180
- Language: English
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political … [more below]
- Series: Significations
- Author: Rooks, Noliwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593492420
- Language: English
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Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
$26.99 Add to cartAs urgent, resonant, and essential as The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me, a poetic, raw, and inspirational love letter from the bestselling author of Buck, written to a nephew who was sho
- Author: Asante, M. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063275287
- Language: English
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His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner): One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; … [more below]- Author: Samuels, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593490827
- Language: English
