• Best African American Essays 2010

    Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors—provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction. The galvanizing election of Barack Obama was on the minds—and the pages—of authors everywhere. Best African American Essays 2010 features the insights of writers from Juan Williams to Kelefa Sanneh and even Obama himself (his seminal speech on race is included here in its entirety). Ta-Nehisi Coates, in The Nation, proclaims that the president ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0553385372
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    • ISBN: 0553385372
    • Brand: Brand: One World/Ballantine
    • Manufacturer: One World

  • Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies

    NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real... [Read More]

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    • Manufacturer: Amistad

  • Best African American Essays: 2009

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  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishab... [Read More]

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    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

  • The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)

    This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy advanced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black leader in America, would only serve to perpet... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 0486280411
    • ISBN: 9780486280417
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)

    Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized chronologically and meticulously researched, this book provides an educational look at the prominent role that these individuals played and how their varied talents, ideas and expertise contributed to American history. * Concise & Easy to Read Text * F... [Read More]

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    • Brand: Bluewood Books
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  • The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

    Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound question. In alternating narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385528205
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    • ISBN: 0385528205
    • Brand: Spiegel Grau
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  • Small Great Things: A Novel

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book.”—Booklist (starred review) Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty ... [Read More]

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    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • The Color Purple

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award   Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.“Intense emotio... [Read More]

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    • ISBN: 9780156028356
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)


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    • ISBN: 9780375702709
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

    Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0307278441
    • ASIN: 0307278441
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    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people.In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic es... [Read More]

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    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • These Truths: A History of the United States


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    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Fire Next Time


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    • ISBN: 9780679744726
    • Brand: Vintage
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  • From the Browder File: 22 Essays on the African American Experience (From the Browder File Series)

    We can be led to act in our own interest as a group if we tune into, and add to, our mental diets, the liberating thoughts that are provifef for us in the From The Browder File. No person or group outside of our own is likely to see our need for a collective rebirth of consiousness.

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  • The Best American Essays of the Century

    An anthology of fifty-five essays on a variety of topics features contributions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and other notable twentieth-century literary

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  • All Men Free and Brethren : Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry

    The first in-depth account of an African American institution that spans the history of the American

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  • The Best American Essays 2013

    A collection of the year's best essays culled from

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  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama : The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

    Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage in the

    • UPC: 10230721

  • Black Faces, White Spaces : Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

    "Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how

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  • Mary Had a Baby : An Advent Bible Study Based on African American Spirituals

    Learn the stories behind these beloved

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  • Great Speeches by African Americans : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others

    Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and many other influential

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    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Health and Wellness Ministry in the African American Church

    The Health and Wellness Ministry in the African American

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  • The Best American Essays 2017

    The best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and

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  • African American Firsts, 4th Edition : Famous, Little-Known And Unsung Triumphs Of Blacks In America

    Offers a look at African Americans who achieved major firsts in such areas as journalism, entertainment, the military, history, and politics, noting the dates of each

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