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Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation New York Times Book Review • "The Best Books to Give This Year"Publishers Weekly • Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction) A shattering new biography of rock music’s most outrageous―and tragic―genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970)...
$28.95
We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
Publisher: Smithsonian Books A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home.This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays...
$19.95
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for...
$17.95
Waterbaby
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press In her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to water―the natural element of grief―to trace history’s interconnected movements through family, memory, and day-to-day survival. Waterbaby is a book about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral...
$16.00
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Publisher: Basic Books The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth...
$30.00
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
Tumult!: The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner
Publisher: Backbeat Books The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous force of nature we know today as...
$24.95
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1
Publisher: 2leaf Press The past four hundred years have seen unprecedented growth in virtually every conceivable realm of life, from medicine to the arts, technology to finance. Far too often, however, when we think of the movers, shakers, and innovators...
$34.99
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
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable...
$16.95
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Publisher: Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent...
$30.00
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 Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
Publisher: Abrams Image An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach...
$24.99
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...
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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 Essential June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press "This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against...
$18.00
The Complete Poetry
Publisher: Random House The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her...
$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 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 Age of Phillis
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis WheatleyNAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for Poetry2020 National Book Award for Poetry, Longlist2020 LA Times Book Award FinalistIn 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis...
$26.95