Topical/Black History
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
$19.99 Add to cartThe bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.
You’ve likely heard of the historic Apollo- Author: Becker, Helaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1250137527
- Language: English
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
$23.00 Add to cartRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatic… [more below]
- Author: Darity, William A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671204
- Language: English
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Homeward
$17.99 Add to cartThe country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing–and no one–will ever be the same.
Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband
- Author: Jackson-Brown, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1400241103
- Language: English
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
$35.00 Read moreFrom Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood’s first Africa
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Bogle, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 076247520X
- Language: English
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
$18.95 Add to cartAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a rev- Series: ReVisioning American History #4
- Author: Ortiz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0807005932
- Language: English
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Black Tarot: An Ancestral Awakening Deck and Guidebook
$28.00 Add to cartAwaken ancestral ties and connect to the divine with Black Tarot, a deluxe tarot deck and guidebook set from author Nyasha Williams, featuring and celebrating exclusively Black figures and imagery.
Le- Author: Williams, Nyasha
- Binding:
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0762479698
- Language: English
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Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
$28.99 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking exploration, the editor of the? New York Times? bestseller? Barracoon documents and discusses social, political, and economic “disparities” and “inequities” that undermine Afric
- Author: Plant, Deborah G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0062898493
- Language: English
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
$22.95 Add to cart“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”
–Ibram X. KendiThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.
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- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1642598984
- Language: English
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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
$20.95 Read moreThis historical fiction picture book reveals the unknown story of Lilly Ann Granderson, an African-American teacher who risked her life to teach others during slavery.
Born into slavery around 1821 in
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1620141639
- Language: English
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Becoming Muhammad Ali
$8.99 Add to cartTwo heavy-hitters in children’s literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali.
★ “This utterly delightful story about Ali’s childhood- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316498173
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
$5.99 Add to cartThe most effective method used to influence children to read is to incorporate the information that interests them the most. National Geographic Readers are educational, high-interest, and comprehensi… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1426310870
- Language: English
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Solo
$15.99 Add to cartSolo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, “A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told.” Through the story of a young Black man search
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0310761883
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
$30.00 Add to cartThis “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America–and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
- Author: Smith, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316492930
- Language: English
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)
$19.99 Read moreA Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son’s death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.
Mamie Till-Mobley is- Author: Joy, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250220955
- Language: English
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I Am Ruby Bridges
$18.99 Add to cartRuby Bridges tells her story as never before and shares the events of the momentous day in 1960 when Ruby became the first Black child to integrate the all-white William Franz Elementary as a six year
- Author: Bridges, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338753886
- Language: English
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A Library
$19.99 Add to cartIn this lyrical picture book, world-renowned poet, New York Times bestselling author, and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Nikki Giovanni and fine artist Erin Robinson craft an ode to the magic of a li
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0358387655
- Language: English
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Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health
$29.99 Read moreA compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it–until now
For more than a century, Dr. J. Mar- Author: Hallman, J. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250868467
- Language: English
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South: A James Beard Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cart2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction #75 on The Root100 2018
A renowned cu
- Author: Twitty, Michael W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 31, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062379275
- Language: English
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Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music
$28.00 Add to cartCelebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Kiana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0762482974
- Language: English
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
$16.95 Add to cart“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” -Combahee River Collective Statement
- Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468550
- Language: English
