Cultural Literature
AN UNBROKEN AGONY: HAITI, FROM REVOLUTION TO THE KIDNAPPING OF A PRESIDENT
On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The twice elected President was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American soldiers and flown, against his will, to the isolated Central...
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NO MAN CAN A-HINDER ME: A MESSAGE OF DEFIANCE FROM MY PLANTATION MOTHERS AND FATHERS
In "No Man Can A-Hinder Me", Dr. Robinson chronicles a 93-year search for the answer to White-On-Black hostility. Not only does he expose the hypocrisy of documents like the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation, he offers solutions that can easily...
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FOLLOW THE LEADER: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. CRAFT YOUR FUTURE (COMING SOON)
This book has been autographed by the author .
Product details
Publisher : 13th & Joan (July 1, 2018)
ISBN-10 : 1732471207
ISBN-13 : 978-1732471207
Item Weight : 9.4 ounces
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E PLURIBUS ONE: RECLAIMING OUR FOUNDERS' VISION FOR A UNITED AMERICA
"America is the story of us. And us isn't doing so great right now." Says award winning journalist and author Sophia A. Nelson. Coming on the heels of the raucous and divisive 2016 general election campaign, Nelson attempts to give...
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CULTURE WORRIER: REFLECTIONS ON RACE, POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: SELECTED COLUMNS 1984-2014
Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page is one of the most nationally recognized and highly regarded syndicated columnists in the country. His newest book commemorates the 30th anniversary of his column's first appearance in the Chicago Tribune. It is the first such collection,...
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DIE NIGGER DIE!: A POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings...
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FIVE DAYS: THE FIERY RECKONING OF AN AMERICAN CITY
When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an “illegal knife” in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated “roughly” as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the...
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LOCKING UP OUR OWN: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN BLACK AMERICA
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why...
$27.00
BEYOND THE MESSY TRUTH: HOW WE CAME APART, HOW WE COME TOGETHER
Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the 2016 presidential campaign with an unscripted, truth-telling style and an already established history of bridge-building across party lines. His election night commentary, during which he coined the term “whitelash,” became a viral...
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FREEDOM SUMMER: THE SAVAGE SEASON THAT MADE MISSISSIPPI BURN AND MADE AMERICA A DEMOCRACY
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the...
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FIRE AND FURY: INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.Since Donald Trump was sworn in as...
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MAYOR FOR LIFE
Marion Barry fought relentlessly in his life and his career. A near-life threatening bullet wound to the chest, a survivor of cancer, allegations of drug use, political scandal—he had an incredible story to tell. This provocative, captivating narrative follows the...
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AIN'T NOTHING LIKE FREEDOM
Elected six times to the House from the state of Georgia, Cynthia McKinney cut a trail through Congressional deceit like a hot ember through ash. She discovered legislators who passed laws without reading them. Party leaders who colluded across party...
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FRACTURE: BARACK OBAMA, THE CLINTONS, AND THE RACIAL DIVIDE (PB)
With President Obama's election, Americans expected an open dialogue about race but instead discovered the irony of an African American president who seemed hamstrung when addressing racial matters, leaving many of his supporters disillusioned and his political enemies sharpening their...
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LET'S GET FREE: A HIP-HOP THEORY OF JUSTICE (PB)
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight―until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't commit. The Volokh...
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LONG TIME COMING: RECKONING WITH RACE IN AMERICA
The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in...
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A PANTHER IS A BLACK CAT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY YEARS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY - ITS ORIGINS, ITS GOALS, AND ITS STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL
In this address at Liberia College in 1881, Blyden, then president of the college, discusses liberal education for Africans. In his speech Blyden lays out an educational program for the instruction of students at the college and for African youth...
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LOCKING UP OUR OWN: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN BLACK AMERICA (PB)
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why...
$17.00
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARSIn this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of...
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ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION: HOW SEARCH ENGINES REINFORCE RACISM
Run a Google search for “black girls”―what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested...
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