Cultural Literature
AFRICAN SAMURAI: THE TRUE STORY OF YASUKE, A LEGENDARY BLACK WARRIOR IN FEUDAL JAPAN
When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to...
$17.99
BLACK KLANSMAN: A MEMOIR
The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history...
$25.99
AMERICA'S MISTRESS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MISS EARTHA KITT
Strait-laced, pre-civil rights America wasn't ready for Eartha Kitt. Waiting for others to be ready was never her style. in America's Mistress John L. Williams captures the person behind the myth in this engaging biography but also race relations in Twentieth-century America....
$26.99
CREATE DANGEROUSLY: THE IMMIGRANT ARTIST AT WORK (TONI MORRISON LECTURE)
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create...
$15.95
BLACK MAGIC: WHAT BLACK LEADERS LEARNED FROM TRAUMA AND TRIUMPH
A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.“I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a...
$27.00
AFTERSHOCKS: A MEMOIR
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.A Most-Anticipated Selection by...
$26.00
FREE CYNTOIA: MY SEARCH FOR REDEMPTION IN THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM
NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/AutobiographyIn her own words, Cyntoia Brown shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug...
$26.00
FINDING MY VOICE: MY JOURNEY TO THE WEST WING AND THE PATH FORWARD
Product details
Publisher : Viking; Illustrated edition (April 2, 2019)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0525558136
ISBN-13 : 978-0525558132
$35.00
BLACK TITAN: A.G. GASTON AND THE MAKING OF A BLACK AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE (PB) / COMING SOON
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance....
$18.00
LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD
“An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart.” —EssenceThe inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden Globe–winning musician, actor, and activist—explores how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to...
$16.99
COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI: THE CLASSIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GROWING UP POOR AND BLACK IN THE RURAL SOUTH
The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change. “Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent,...
$8.99
LIFE IN MOTION: AN UNLIKELY BALLERINA (PB)
When Misty Copeland first placed her hands on the ballet barre at an after-school community centre, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers. A true prodigy, she was attempting in...
$15.56
MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER: A YOUNG BLACK MAN IN AMERICA
One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age...
$16.95
GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME (PB)
In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.“A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally...
$16.00
MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND
Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley, this thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown’s childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the...
$18.00
NO, YOU SHUT UP: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER AND RECLAIMING AMERICA
“Symone’s honest and profound reflection on standing up and speaking out is sure to inspire young people across the country to become the change agents the world needs.” — Congresswoman Maxine Waters In this rousing call to leadership, the self-described millennial...
$26.99
MORE MYSELF: A JOURNEY
As one of the most celebrated musicians in the world, Alicia Keys has enraptured the globe with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache―over the challenging...
$29.99
BLACK KLANSMAN: RACE, HATE, AND THE UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION OF A LIFETIME (PB)
When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact a...
$17.99
AROUND THE WAY GIRL: A MEMOIR (PB)
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth. With a...
$17.00
BLACK PRIVILEGE: OPPORTUNITY COMES TO THOSE WHO CREATE IT
In Black Privilege, Charlamagne presents his often controversial and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success. This journey to truth begins in the small town of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, and leads...
$16.00