General Fiction
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 Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
Publisher: Haymarket Books In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community...
$45.00
The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.What does it mean to be an American? The story of the...
$18.95
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 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...
$24.99
The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America
Publisher: Beacon Press The just-discovered story of how two enigmatic circus performers and the cultural ferment of the Gilded Age sparked the Black Muslim movement in AmericaDelving into new archives and uncovering fascinating biographical narratives, secret rituals, and hidden identities,...
$29.95
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 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
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
Publisher: Belknap Press “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been...
$35.00
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
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Publisher: Penguin Books A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to Reconstruction, curated by the Schomburg Center. Unsung makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a...
$22.00
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
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
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account...
$18.99
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
Publisher: Amistad Press From the author of Queen Sugar—now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay—comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations,...
$29.99
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
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known...
$28.95
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
You Next: Reflections in Black Barbershops
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books “A stirring work . . . images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intelligent, poignant—You Next is brilliant from cover to cover.” —Maurice Wallace, Rutgers...
$26.99
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a...
$30.00