African American category: 7736 books
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
A gifted grassroots organizer,...
Money, Power, Respect
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
First, In What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know, the bold and beautiful Denene Milner and Nick Chiles gave the real deal of love and relationships. It was hailed as the African American Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Then, in What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex, the savvy supercouple...
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it...
The Magnificent Mays
A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894–1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century. He influenced the lives of generations of students as a dean and professor of religion at Howard University and as longtime...
by Brooke Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the...
Love Cemetery
Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My...
From Generation to Generation
A Commemorative Collection of African American Millenial Sermons from the Festival of Preachers 2010-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This commemorative collection of sermons by young African American preachers is anchored in gratitude to the strong and deeply-rooted Black religious experience. While several studies speak to the disillusionment of millennials towards formalized religion, Generation to Generation shows a generation...
by John A. Wright Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Since the founding of St. Louis in 1764, Downtown St. Louis has been a center of black cultural, economic, political, and legal achievements that have shaped not only the city of St. Louis, but the nation as well. From James Beckworth, one of the founders of Denver, Colorado, to Elizabeth Keckley, Mary...
The Biblical Journey of Slavery
From Egypt to the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Th e narrative presented provides a source of enlightenment for descendants of the African Diaspora. The past enslavement of Captive Africans was not an accident, but fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The Prophet Moses warned in scripture, that, the Hebrews will be enslaved in the latter days, by...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Outlining the 10 most significant reasons behind the high drop-out rate amongst black male students, this guide provides more than 30 solutions towards addressing this national crisis. Revealing that currently close to one half of black males do not graduate from high school, this exploration pursues...
The Miracles of Mentoring
How to Encourage and Lead Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
"How many times have you said, 'I'd like to help a child, but I don't know what to do? I don't have the time, I don't have anything to offer, I can't afford it.' I promise you, by the time you finish reading this book, all of these questions will be answered."
—from the Foreword by Tom Joyner, of...
Black Bodies, White Gazes
The Continuing Significance of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George Yancy...
"Cut from the Same Cloth"
A Collection of Smith Family Stories 1841 - 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Cynthias parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family members and of times long ago in the lumber mill...