Cultural Literature
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
Publisher: All Points Books The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th...
$29.99
Black Designers in American Fashion
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However, many of their achievements have gone...
$34.95
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux "[A] masterly and often riveting account of King’s ordeal and the 1960 'October Surprise' that may have altered the course of modern American political history." —Raymond Arsenault, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)The authors of Douglass...
$28.00
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Publisher: Penguin Books The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even...
$30.00
The Blood of Emmett Till
Publisher: Simon & Schuster * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017 *...
$17.00
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency...
$26.95
The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
Publisher: Abrams Image The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the...
$24.99
The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press From the bestselling author of Washington’s Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroism of the men from Marblehead, Massachusetts On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced...
$28.00
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Publisher: Bold Type Books Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists...
$30.00
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and...
$18.95
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
Publisher: 37 Ink From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP.In the tranquil seaside town of...
$28.00
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
Publisher: Kent State University Press An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century Baltimore In 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who...
$24.95
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset...
$32.00
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century.We think we know the story of Africa’s Great...
$32.00
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial...
$30.00
Mutiny of Rage: The 1917 Camp Logan Riots and Buffalo Soldiers in Houston
Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen black soldiers stood at attention in front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had been convicted of participating in one of America’s most infamous black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as...
$25.99
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original...
$24.95
A Master of Djinn
A 2021 NEIBA Book Award Finalist!Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novelCairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and...
$27.99
Bacchanal
Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come. Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong...
$24.95
Gone Missing in Harlem
In her anticipated second novel, Karla Holloway evokes the resilience of a family whose journey traces the river of America’s early twentieth century. The Mosby family, like other thousands, migrate from the loblolly-scented Carolinas north to the Harlem of their...
$18.95