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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved...
by Ijeoma Oluo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race....
Letters to a Young Brother
MANifest Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school students...
Forty Million Dollar Slaves
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—Ebony
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired...
Casablanca
My Moroccan Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
OBSERVER RISING STAR IN FOOD 2018
'a book that is infused with the flavours of Morocco and is as accessible as it is inspiring' - Nigella Lawson
'It practically sings with aromatic spices and ingredients' - Delicious.
'Breathes new life into Moroccan food' - BBC Good Food
Morocco is one of the top...
Richard Wright
A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century. The author of Black Boy and Native Son, among other works, Wright wrote unflinchingly about the black experience in...
by Nick Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
White people of America, we know you've got it rough.
Sure, black men and women have been through four hundred years of slavery, oppression, murder, and watching white college students try to dance. But now that it's hip to have black friends, white people aren't sure how to go about it. And...
Waking from the Dream
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...
A Dreadful Deceit
The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for...
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in...
Martin's Dream
My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
On August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was Clayborne Carson's first demonstration. A nineteen year old black...
I Will Not Grow Downward - Memoir Of An Eritrean Refugee
My Long And Perilous Flight From Africa's Hermit Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
I WILL NOT GROW DOWNWARD - MEMOIR OF AN ERITREAN REFUGEE
ONE MAN'S LONG AND PERILOUS FLIGHT FROM AFRICA'S HERMIT KINGDOM
Thirty years of conflict with a powerful enemy never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people. After winning their freedom from Ethiopia, a young man dreams of starting...
by Damon L. Fordham
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
From the Upstate to the Lowcountry, African Americans have had a gigantic impact on the Palmetto State. Unfortunately, their stories are often overshadowed.Collected here for the first time, this selection of essays by historian Damon L. Fordham brings these stories to light. Rediscover the tales of...
Working While Black
The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every...