Cultural Literature
On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Supplier: Ten Speed Press
A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug.
$24.00
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
Supplier: Microcosm Publishing The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants.When Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent...
$11.95
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
Supplier: Fulcrum Publishing Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero...
$23.95
Strange Fruit, Volume II, 2: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
Supplier: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum Like all legends, people fade away, but not before leaving an incredible legacy. Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the...
$19.95
Two Brothers
Supplier: Dark Horse Books Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more....
$24.99
Two Dead
Supplier: Gallery 13 From the acclaimed DC Comics writer and the artist of the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning illustrated trilogy March comes a stunning crime noir graphic novel exploring the intertwining threads of crime, conspiracy, racism, and...
$19.99
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
Supplier: New York Review Comics One of the Globe & Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2018A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.Yvan Alagbé is one of the...
$22.95
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