Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother
$20.00 Add to cartLucille “Mama Ceal” Hatch Eldridge wrote to her grandson Walter Pryor weekly for nearly 30 years, from his boyhood until she died at 80. Most extraordinarily, Mama Ceal was not a well-educated person,
- Author: Pryor, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1956474587
- Language: English
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Camarades of War I Part 2 -Descendants: Pittsylvania County Patriots/Moorman-Flippin Legacy
$30.99 Add to cart- Author: Gilchrist, Sybil J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822983779
- Language: English
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Number’s Up: Cracking the Code of an American Family
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Levi, Johnisha Matthews
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 198590232X
- Language: English
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My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
$29.99 Add to cartIn this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how
- Author: Conyers III, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 63336812
- Language: English
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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre
$32.00 Add to cartThe first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.
A Continuous Struggle is a political biography of one of
- Author: Felber, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1849355908
- Language: English
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Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
$28.99 Add to cartFrom a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America.
“In Alabama, we exist at the border of- Author: Okeowo, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1250206227
- Language: English
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This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother
$32.00 Add to cartLucille “Mama Ceal” Hatch Eldridge wrote to her grandson Walter Pryor weekly for nearly 30 years, from his boyhood until she died at 80. Most extraordinarily, Mama Ceal was not a well-educated person,
- Author: Pryor, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1956474676
- Language: English
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In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School
$25.00 Add to cartIn Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School uncovers the untold stories of individuals who risked their lives to fight enslavement, serving as a compelling call for justice and the p… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1623716616
- Language: English
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This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
$27.50 Add to cartThe remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Music.”
Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs “You’ll Sing a Song and I’l- Author: Wald, Gayle F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 226824810
- Language: English
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When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
$32.00 Add to cartDiscover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent in this immersive and pioneering history.
Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the Firs- Author: Akpan, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368876
- Language: English
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The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
$35.00 Add to cart“Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. It will become a Black classic.”– Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road
“Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The
- Author: Eshun, Ekow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063450526
- Language: English
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I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education
$27.95 Add to cartAn intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the
- Author: G. J. Lewis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888902530
- Language: English
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Chief Rondo: Securing Justice for the Murder of George Floyd
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Arradondo, Medaria Rondo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1635769477
- Language: English
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Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
$29.99 Add to cartA vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker–daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance–written by her great-granddaughter.
Dubbed the “joy godd- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1416544429
- Language: English
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Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice–and what it takes to find shelter.
Lessons for Survival is a probing seri- Author: Raboteau, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250373409
- Language: English
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Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Hanley, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272359
- Language: English
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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Pitchfork and Guardian contributor Dean Van Nguyen comes a revelatory history of Tupac beyond his musical legend, as a radical son of the Black Panther Party whose political legacy still resonate… [more below]
- Author: Van Nguyen, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0385550022
- Language: English
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I’m Highly Percent Sure
$24.99 Read moreIn this rich, transparent, and witty memoir, the Co-Founder of WangaWoman LLC, current President & CEO of Essence Ventures, and ambassador of authenticity navigates the lifelong battle between her int
- Author: Wanga, Caroline A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063360381
- 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
