Cultural Literature
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...
$28.00
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...
$17.00
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...
$18.00
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...
$30.00
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...
$21.99
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...
$19.95
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...
$28.51
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...
$17.49
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...
$25.99
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...
$16.95
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...
$30.00
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...
$28.00
HOW WE FIGHT WHITE SUPREMACY: A FIELD GUIDE TO BLACK RESISTANCE
Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black Americans subvert and resist life-threatening...
$17.99
BLACK LIBERATION AND SOCIALISM
A sharp and insightful analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States—from the separatism of Marcus Garvey, to the militancy of Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party, to the eloquence of Martin Luther King Jr. and much...
$15.00
BLACK THEOLOGY & BLACK POWER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The classic work of Black Theology—still relevant and challenging after 50 years—with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power provided the first systematic presentation of Black Theology, while also introducing the voice...
$25.00
MALCOLM X SPEAKS
These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Breaking from...
$14.00
DAVID WALKER'S APPEAL
Walker's Appeal represents one of the earliest African-centered discourses on an oppressed people's right to freedom. African American political philosophy has evolved from many of the themes that it articulates. Order David Walker's Appeal here. Product details Publisher : Black Classic...
$8.95
CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST (COMING SOON)
Nothing is new or original in Christianity. All features and components of what is now known as Christianity were present in mythologies that flourished before Jesus is alleged to have lived, and this book shows how those myths evolved into...
$25.00