Topical/Black History
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Skin Folk: Stories
$18.99 Add to cartThe SFWA Grand Master’s award-winning collection “combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling” (Library Journal).
In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fict- Author: Hopkinson, Nalo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1504052765
- Language: English
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.
“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” –Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880357
- Language: English
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The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration
$27.99 Read moreA multigenerational story of hope and resilience, The Garretts of Columbia is an American history of Black struggle, sacrifice, and achievement.
At the heart of David Nicholson’s beautifully written an
- Author: Nicholson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364545
- Language: English
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
$35.00 Add to cartTraditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established betw
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1631495828
- Language: English
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Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
$17.99 Read moreFrom the Newbery Honor-winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Alicia D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1534419136
- Language: English
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Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
$24.99 Add to cartIn Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel s… [more below]
- Author: Reid Soskin, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1401954235
- Language: English
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
$32.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1568584636
- Language: English
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The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
$18.99 Add to cartNSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2019 Selection
Meet Raye Montague–the hidden m
NSTA Best STEM Trade Books for Students K-12 2019 Selection
2019 Amelia Bloomer List Selection
2019 Mathical Honor Book- Series: Amazing Scientists #3
- Author: Finley Mosca, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1943147426
- Language: English
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the John Hope Franklin Prize
“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”
A Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year
–Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books How did- Author: Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0674238141
- Language: English
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The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
$27.00 Read moreOne of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction
In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historia- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600746
- Language: English
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The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
$29.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better t
- Author: Sellers, Bakari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006308502X
- Language: English
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A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country
$19.99 Add to cartA comprehensive, entertaining look at heroes, heroines, and critical moments from African American history — from the slave trade to the Black Lives Matter movement — by award-winning author Jabari … [more below]
- Series: Child’s Introduction
- Author: Asim, Jabari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0316436429
- Language: English
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend
$17.99 Add to cartMerging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Am
- Author: Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0060510749
- Language: English
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartThe triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre–and the world–forever.
“This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever c
- Author: Gaines, Caseen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259398
- Language: English
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Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace
$27.95 Add to cartExamines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.
- Series: Suny Black Women’s Wellness
- Author: Evans, Stephanie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1438483643
- Language: English
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Who Was Nelson Mandela?
$5.99 Add to cartAs a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in pri… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479338
- Language: English
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0306926091
- Language: English
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Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
$29.95 Read moreThe Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC. O… [more below]
- Author: Barnwell, Thomas C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467074
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER – A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the … [more below]
- Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593501713
- Language: English
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Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
$11.95 Read moreThe spirited story of Marcenia Lyle, the African American girl who grew up to become “Toni Stone,” the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team.
If there was anything in the world
- Author: Hubbard, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1600605729
- Language: English
