People & Places - United States - African American & Black
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Black History for Every Day of the Year
$19.95 Add to cartDid you know that Aretha Franklin was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Or that the first accounts of a Black samurai in Japan date back almost 500 years ago? From th
- Author: Olusoga, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030938
- Language: English
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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartA spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltr- Author: Alexander, Stephon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093574
- Language: English
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Black Legacy: A History of New York’s African Americans
$18.95 Add to cartDiscover the complete Black history of New York–from 1609 to the present–by the award-winning author of Breaking the Chains and Black Indians. For readers 12 and up.
Includes a new intro and last ch- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1644214393
- Language: English
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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
$18.99 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning- Author: Shanté, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890039538
- Language: English
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Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
$13.99 Add to cartA searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer J… [more below]
- Author: Nehanda, Walela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593529502
- Language: English
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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1536228168
- Language: English
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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
$24.99 Read moreA National Book Award Finalist
A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential acco… [more below]- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1536214183
- Language: English
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Black Girl, White School: Thriving, Surviving and No, You Can’t Touch My Hair. an Anthology
$16.99 Add to cart#1 AMAZON NEW RELEASE & Amazon Bestseller in 7 Categories
Listen to Black women and Black girls.
Navigating predominantly white institutions (PWI) as a young Black girl provides amazing opportunities
- Author: Clarke, Olivia V. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: August 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0989776948
- Language: English
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The Book of Awesome Black Women: Sheroes, Boundary Breakers, and Females Who Changed the World (Historical Black Women Biographies) (Ages 13-18)
$18.99 Add to cartAuthor and educator M.J. Fievre, BS Ed, and bestselling author Becca Anderson have teamed up in The Book of Awesome Black Women. In it, they share an uncensored history of the power of Black women lik… [more below]
- Series: Awesome Books
- Author: Anderson, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1642509299
- Language: English
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Say Her Name
$18.99 Read moreFrom award-winning author Zetta Elliott comes a stirring and powerful poetry collection that reveals the beauty, danger, and magic found at the intersection of race and gender.
Inspired by the #SayHe- Author: Elliott, Zetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1368045243
- Language: English
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Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.99 Read moreThis Black History month, celebrate the Harlem Renaissance! This National Book Award Finalist takes a breathtaking, in-depth look at the art, poetry, and fiction that came out of one of America’s most… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Laban Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316496332
- Language: English
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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life
$18.99 Read moreThis powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance.
A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street Coll- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316298026
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$22.99 Add to cartA young reader’s edition of award-winning author Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers.
Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the G- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749498
- Language: English
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Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
$8.99 Add to cartIn this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, b… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1416948821
- Language: English
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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
$19.99 Add to cartThis YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chroni… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Ray Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 166268066X
- Language: English
