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  • The Black Side of the River

    Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC

    An insightful exploration of the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and languageAcross the United States, cities are changing. Gentrification is transforming urban landscapes, often pushing local Black populations to the margins. As a result, communities with rich histories and strong identities grapple with essential questions. What does it mean to be from a place in flux? What ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial?

    Race and Politics in the Obama Era

    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn’t lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans’ political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama’s presidency—in spite of his administration’s considerable efforts to neutralize ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Stolen Women

    Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives

    by Gail Wyatt ...
    "STOLEN WOMEN gives us what Mama couldn't--a way to be in charge of our own bodies. This probing, fact-based book dissects the myths, discards the stereotypes, and unshackles our minds."--BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL Author of Brothers and Sisters"The culmination of twenty-two years of clinical practice and in-depth interviews with hundreds of African American women."--Ebony"Groundbreaking research breaks ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Torn Apart

    How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

    An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical changeMany believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Knights of Rhodes

    by Bo Giertz ...
    Translated by Bror Erickson ...
    1521 has arrived. A new year in a new world with new nations, new continents, new knowledge, and new rulers. Never before had so much power been gathered in such young hands. The tenth Sultan, the twenty-six-year-old Suleiman, ascends to his father's throne in one of the world's most powerful empires. The rest of the world hopes that the eastern threat has faded. Rhodes is Christendom's closest ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lines of Descent

    W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Freedom Riders

    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why We Can't Wait

    Series Book 4 - King Legacy
    Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Big Sea

    An Autobiography

    Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Education of Kevin Powell

    A Boy's Journey into Manhood

    by Kevin Powell ...
    In the spirit of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writer and activist Kevin Powell’s memoir—“illuminating…an education for us all” (USA TODAY)—vividly recounts the horrific poverty of his youth and his struggles to overcome a legacy of anger, violence, and self-hatred.When Kevin Powell was three, he discovered the volatile nature of his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Names of All the Flowers

    A Memoir

    A “poignant, painful, and gorgeous” memoir that explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief for a family shattered by loss (Alicia Garza, cocreator, Black Lives Matter).Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. But as Junior approaches adolescence, a bullying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pipeline (TCG Edition)

    Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017.Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists.Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and for promoting social justice through her work.Morriseau’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • African American Religious History

    A Documentary Witness

    Edited by Milton C. Sernett ...
    Series series The C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience
    This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents—many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find—include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Nation Must Awake

    My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

    Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with guns.” The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Purpose of Power

    How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

    by Alicia Garza ...
    An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter“Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New YorkerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time • Marie Claire • Kirkus ReviewsIn 2013, Alicia Garza w... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Heritage

    Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism

    by Howard Bryant ...
    Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismNamed a best book of 2018 by Library JournalIt used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world’s worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Black History

    A Single Source For History On Black History Subjects Including Affirmative Action, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, Jr., The Fifteenth and Thirteenth Amendment, The Underground Railroad and Brown versus the Board of Education and More!   ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes

    An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967

    by Elaine Moon ...
    More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

    Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly"All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly"If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."-NPR"The 'Collected ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Until We Are Free

    Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada

    The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before them.Until We Are Free contains some of the very best ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rosa Lee

    A Generational Tale Of Poverty And Survival In Urban America

    by Leon Dash ...
    Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Marines of Montford Point

    America's First Black Marines

    With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina. Between 1942 and 1949 (when the base was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Far Away from Close to Home

    Essays

    New & Noteworthy: The New York Times “Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave.” —Mindy Kaling Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of “home” means to a Black millennial woman. How important is race to the idea of community? What are the consequences of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD