Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home
$30.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize winning writer, editor and TV host Jonathan Capehart recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity and finding his voice to spea… [more below]
- Author: Capehart, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1538767066
- Language: English
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People the Planet Needs Now: Voices for Justice, Science, and a Future of Promise
$30.00 Add to cartFind inspiration to affect global change with stories and perspectives from people the planet needs now: 25 Black and Brown scientists and activists.
From climate change and industrial waste to social
- Author: Edmondson, Dudley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 164755277X
- Language: English
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
$19.99 Add to cartA “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as Na… [more below]
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982195312
- Language: English
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, P- Author: Rembert, Winfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576598
- Language: English
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Red Stained: The Life of Hilda SIMMs
$22.95 Add to cartBlack actress and activist Hilda Simms was a rising star on the stage and screen in post-WWII America until accusations of un-Americanism and communist sympathies derailed her career.
Hilda Simms eme- Author: Bell, Jokeda Jojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342529
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
$27.95 Add to cartA fresh portrait of this iconic American–and the first to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.
For all Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and the myriad books w- Author: Wiesen, Jean Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368132
- Language: English
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAn “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s g… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601009
- Language: English
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Pieces You’ll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival
$27.00 Add to cartA life-altering neurological disorder. A traumatic birth. An unlikely survival.
Pieces You’ll Never Get Back is a harrowing and redemptive memoir, in which a new mother must reconstruct her shattered- Author: Ali, Samina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 164622261X
- Language: English
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The White Peril: A Family Memoir
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family
In The- Author: Moses, Omo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0807004820
- Language: English
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Groundbreaking Magic: A Black Woman’s Journey Through the Happiest Place on Earth
$25.99 Add to cartAn empowering and moving story of a young woman from South Central Los Angeles (Watts and Compton) who took a chance, defied the odds, and became the first-ever Black American to achieve a half-centur… [more below]
- Series: Disney Editions Deluxe
- Author: Blanding, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1368078036
- Language: English
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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartIn this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as The Glass Castle and Memorial Drive, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good.
On
- Author: Labrie, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063280728
- Language: English
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
$19.00 Add to cartWarm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and e… [more below]
- Author: Delany, Sarah L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0385312520
- Language: English
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While I Have Your Attention: It’s Never Too Late for a New Beginning
$19.99 Add to cartFind hope when you see that it is never too late for a new beginning.
This book is for…
Every person who has experienced struggle and hardship
Every person who knew there was more out there than their- Author: O’Neal, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1400344212
- Language: English
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Soft Power for the Journey: The Life of a STEM Trailblazer
$33.99 Add to cartThis is a story of an African American woman working at the highest levels in STEM. Dr. Sandra K. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in May 1988, the fi
- Author: Johnson, Sandra K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1032724250
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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I Will Scream to the World: My Story. My Fight. My Hope for Girls Everywhere.
$28.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary memoir details the monumental journey of one young Gambian woman from survivor of FGM and forced child marriage, to global activist and political leader who became UN Women’s first … [more below]
- Author: Dukureh, Jaha Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1496748468
- Language: English
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Lift Your Voice: How My Nephew George Floyd’s Murder Changed the World
$27.00 Read moreAngela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt and closest relative in Minnesota, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George’s family–how he lived and why he died–and how the world can find a solution to ra… [more below]
- Author: Harrelson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1637583370
- Language: English
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
$23.95 Read moreThe culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375507477
- Language: English
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Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: A Brief Introduction
$16.95 Read more“When you make an observation, you have an obligation.”
–M.K. AsanteDeidra R. Moore-Janvier, Esq.–African American wife, mother, attorney, and advocate for social change–did just that. It was in 201
- Author: Moore, Deidra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1645438554
- Language: English
