Topical/Black History
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Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
$39.95 Add to cartTextures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the dias… [more below]
- Author: Ellington, Tameka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 3777435546
- Language: English
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Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
$16.99 Add to cart“Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still
- Author: Bowen, Sesali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063111748
- Language: English
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
$18.95 Add to cartONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST–The New York Times and Washington Post
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality–here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people’s poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman- Author: Coleman, Wanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1574232460
- Language: English
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Roots, Heart, Soul: The Story, Celebration, and Recipes of Afro Cuisine in America
$35.00 Add to cartChef Todd Richards, the James Beard Award-winning author of Soul, is your guide to exploring West African diaspora cooking in the Americas, spanning history from the slave trade through the Great Migr
- Author: Richards, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 0358612675
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey
$17.99 Add to cartThis memoir filled with “overwhelming emotions and power” (The Mary Sue) testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college student in a predominantly white institution.… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Echo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0316310662
- Language: English
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The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
$17.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A New York Times Editor’s Choice A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black Power
From journalist and New
- Author: Blow, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062914677
- Language: English
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Supreme Sirens: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Music
$60.00 Add to cartA stunning photography book that explores the power, rebellion, and resilience held within the voices of trailblazing Black female musicians.
From entertainment journalist and fashion stylist Marcell- Author: Reynolds, Marcellas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1419769014
- Language: English
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
$18.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inc
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1635574285
- Language: English
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Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
$27.99 Add to cart“One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head o
- Author: Jealous, Benjamin Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062961748
- Language: English
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It Came from Memphis: Updated and Revised
$22.95 Add to cartVienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop-except the change was
- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 1733350152
- Language: English
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Maya’s Song
$19.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling, award-winning creators Ren馥 Watson and Bryan Collier comes a stunningly crafted picture book chronicling the life of poet and activist Maya Angelou.
This unforgettable picture book
- Author: Watson, Renée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062871587
- Language: English
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Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus)
$19.99 Add to cartBarbara Binns presents the inspiring story of one man in his struggle for racial equality in the field of battle and the field of medicine.
Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched
- Author: Binns, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338754262
- Language: English
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
$21.99 Add to cartA searing and “magisterial” (Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619587
- Language: English
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The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice
$29.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Re- Author: Darity, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520383818
- Language: English
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
$27.99 Add to cartAn uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author
When Mary Ann Shadd Cary–the first Black woman publisher in North Am
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1620976285
- Language: English
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Ghost Boys
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller!
A heartbreaking and powerful novel about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Onl- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316262285
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
$9.99 Add to cartA classic and highly acclaimed biography of civil rights activist Malcolm X, ever more relevant for today’s readers.
As a 14-year-old he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1338309854
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$30.00 Add to cartIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867854
- Language: English
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Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
$29.99 Read moreA timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell’s Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country’s foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and vital new framework going beyond t
- Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063004720
- Language: English
