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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. Brutal slavery existed all over the New World, but only America followed emancipation with a twisted system of...
$27.95
The Annotated African American Folktales
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation * Winner of the 2018 NAACP award for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction* Recipient of the 2019 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice AwardThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy...
$39.95
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Revised)
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black MessiahOn December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her...
$17.99
The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Publisher: Grove Press In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave...
$30.00
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 Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Publisher: New York University Press A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiersThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of...
$35.00
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (Revised)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and...
$23.95
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 Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of...
$17.99
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Publisher: Amistad Press 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers...
$28.99
The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Publisher: Dafina Books This comprehensive history of African American fraternities and sororities celebrates the spirit of Black Excellence in higher education that has produced American leaders in politics, sports, arts, and culture such as Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Jordan, Thurgood...
$21.95
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today’s canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King...
$17.95
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 Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
Publisher: Dutton Books One of The New York Times's 11 Books we Recommend This Week | One of Oprah Daily's 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May | One of The Oklahoman's 15 books to help you learn about the Tulsa Race...
$28.00
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL”...
$28.00
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Publisher: Basic Books An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America.Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over...
$35.00
The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
Publisher: Duke University Press In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical...
$25.95
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 Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Publisher: Gallery/Jeter Publishing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a...
$28.00