Fiction
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparationsBorn into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy...
$27.95
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Publisher: Melville House Publishing “All I can say is that I’m a shaker-upper. That’s exactly what I am.” —Shirley ChisholmWhen Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination in 1972, she became the first Black candidate for a...
$16.99
She's Strong, But She's Tired, 3
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin, an ode to the women who have chosen to fight for themselves.A poetic documentation of pain, loneliness, courage, and triumph.
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She Fits Inside These Words, 4
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes comes an ode for all women.This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you’ve been fighting...
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (Media Tie-In)
Publisher: Scribner Book Company Now a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground) is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker - the legendary...
$19.00
Seeing the Body: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in PoetryAn elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging...
$26.95
Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest Withers
Publisher: Cityfiles Press Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the civil rights movement―from the Emmett Till trial in...
$49.95
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Publisher: ABRAMS In words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale’s, with contributions by other former party members;...
$42.00
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove...
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Owed
Publisher: Penguin Books From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker)Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School,...
$20.00
Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books “Overnight Code is a must-read for anyone seeking inspiration to overcome social barriers and to shatter glass ceilings.” —Carolyn Porter, Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate The inspiring story of a groundbreaking African American female engineer who...
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Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
Publisher: Beacon Press An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2020The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who combatted racism and prejudice through her music.Odetta channeled her anger and despair into some of the most powerful...
$28.95
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
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Publisher: Amistad Press The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and...
$25.99
Negotiations
Publisher: Tin House Books "Full of wonder." ―Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced...
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Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
Publisher: Algonquin Books “Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history.”—Michelle ObamaIn Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts...
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Mlima's Tale
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group “A beautiful, endlessly echoing portrait of a murder and its afterlife. Ms. Nottage shaped this story with such theatrical inventiveness and discipline that it never feels sensational… A finely wrought fusion of elements.” —Ben Brantley, New York...
$14.95
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Publisher: Ecco Press An Instant New York Times Best Seller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today,...
$27.99
Magical Negro
Publisher: Tin House Books A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner! From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood."Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to...
$15.95
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
Publisher: University of Illinois Press Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist...
$24.95