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LOOKING FOR LORRAINE: THE RADIANT AND RADICAL LIFE OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to...
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JAKE MAKES A WORLD: JACOB LAWRENCE, AN ARTIST IN HARLEM
Jake Makes a World follows the creative adventures of the young Jacob Lawrence as he finds inspiration in the vibrant colors and characters of his community in Harlem. From his mother's apartment, where he is surrounded by brightly colored walls with...
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WE'RE GOING TO NEED MORE WINE: STORIES THAT ARE FUNNY, COMPLICATED, AND TRUE
In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman. One month before the release...
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I AM THESE TRUTHS: A MEMOIR OF IDENTITY, JUSTICE, AND LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS
The Emmy Award-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique...
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WRITING MY WRONGS: LIFE, DEATH, AND REDEMPTION IN AN AMERICAN PRISON
Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age 11, his parents'...
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I DON'T WANT TO DIE POOR: ESSAYS
Arceneaux has been scared to death. You should never do the opposite of what Oprah instructs you to do, but when you don’t have her pocket change, how can you not be terrified of the consequences of pursuing your dreams?Michael...
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JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of...
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HEAVY: AN AMERICAN MEMOIR
Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation....
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I'M TELLING THE TRUTH, BUT I'M LYING: ESSAYS
In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her...
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WOW, NO THANK YOU.: ESSAYS
*AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.... irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye.”—Jia TolentinoFrom Samantha Irby, beloved author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, a rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of...
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BREATHE: A LETTER TO MY SONS
Best-of Lists: Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019 (The Undefeated)Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our...
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W. E. B. DUBOIS ON SOCIOLOGY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings from...
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LIGHTING THE FIRES OF FREEDOM
During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the...
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THE AGE OF GARVEY: HOW A JAMAICAN ACTIVIST CREATED A MASS MOVEMENT AND CHANGED GLOBAL BLACK POLITICS (AMERICA IN THE WORLD)
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age...
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THE BIRTH OF A NATION: NAT TURNER AND THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT
This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film The Birth of a Nation surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner's relevance to contemporary dialogues...
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THE FAMILY TREE: A LYNCHING IN GEORGIA, A LEGACY OF SECRETS, AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white...
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WORLD WAR II RADIO HEROES: LETTERS OF COMPASSION (COMING SOON)
More than 60 years had passed before she found them. Dozens of letters written to her family during WWII-from total strangers-to tell her great-grandmother that her son had been captured and was being held as a POW. How did they...
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GIANTS: THE PARALLEL LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS & ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men...
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THE RESIDENCE: INSIDE THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE WHITE HOUSE
A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America’s First Families are unknowable in many ways. No...
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BLACK SOLDIERS OF NEW YORK: A PROUD LEGACY
Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers. Product details Publisher : Excelsior Editions; Illustrated edition (January 22, 2009) Language : English Paperback : 188 pages ISBN-10 : 143842616X ISBN-13 : 978-1438426167 Item Weight : 8 ounces Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.47 x...
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