Books
JAZZ IMAGES BY WILLIAM CLAXTON
This book presents a selection of more than 150 superb Color & B&W images. Where previous jazz photographers captured their subjects in the dark, smoky environs of nightclubs, Claxton capitalized on the sun and surf of southern California, posing artists...
$49.99
DECODED
“Compelling . . . provocative, evocative . . . Part autobiography, part lavishly illustrated commentary on the author’s own work, Decoded gives the reader a harrowing portrait of the rough worlds Jay-Z navigated in his youth, while at the same time deconstructing...
$30.00
THE STRANGER: BARACK OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered just how difficult it was to swim against...
$42.00
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY FROM THE GROUND UP: LOCAL STRUGGLES, A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach...
$32.95
THERE'S ALWAYS WORK AT THE POST OFFICE: AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS AND THE FIGHT FOR JOBS, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor,...
$35.00
WE'RE BETTER THAN THIS: MY FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR DEMOCRACY
Known for his poise, intellect, and influence until his death in October 2019, Elijah Cummings was one of the most respected figures in contemporary politics, a politician who held fast to his beliefs but was not afraid to reach across...
$28.99
$23.19
QUEENS OF THE RESISTANCE: NANCY PELOSI (QUEENS OF THE RESISTANCE)
Behold one of the toughest dealers in the political arena, a singularly shrewd operator who cut her teeth from deep within the ranks of the Democratic Party and climbed all the way to the top. Rising higher than any woman...
$18.00
Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters (Queens of the Resistance) by Maxine Waters QUEENS OF THE RESISTANCE: MAXINE WATERS (QUEENS OF THE RESISTANCE)
Maxine Waters is an icon for a generation of women powerbrokers in politics. She is an “unbought and unbossed” acolyte of all the legendary firebrands, like Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Tupac, and Malcolm X. The daughter of a single mom from St. Louis, she’s smart, sassy, and...
$18.00
NO MAN CAN A-HINDER ME: A MESSAGE OF DEFIANCE FROM MY PLANTATION MOTHERS AND FATHERS
In "No Man Can A-Hinder Me", Dr. Robinson chronicles a 93-year search for the answer to White-On-Black hostility. Not only does he expose the hypocrisy of documents like the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation, he offers solutions that can easily...
$14.95
FOLLOW THE LEADER: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. CRAFT YOUR FUTURE (COMING SOON)
This book has been autographed by the author .
Product details
Publisher : 13th & Joan (July 1, 2018)
ISBN-10 : 1732471207
ISBN-13 : 978-1732471207
Item Weight : 9.4 ounces
$26.99
E PLURIBUS ONE: RECLAIMING OUR FOUNDERS' VISION FOR A UNITED AMERICA
"America is the story of us. And us isn't doing so great right now." Says award winning journalist and author Sophia A. Nelson. Coming on the heels of the raucous and divisive 2016 general election campaign, Nelson attempts to give...
$29.00
CULTURE WORRIER: REFLECTIONS ON RACE, POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: SELECTED COLUMNS 1984-2014
Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page is one of the most nationally recognized and highly regarded syndicated columnists in the country. His newest book commemorates the 30th anniversary of his column's first appearance in the Chicago Tribune. It is the first such collection,...
$17.00
ONE NATION: WHAT WE CAN ALL DO TO SAVE AMERICA'S FUTURE
Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation’s decline has continued. Today the danger is greater than ever before, and I have never shared a more urgent message than I do now.Our growing debt and deteriorating morals have driven us far from the founders’...
$25.95
MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE: MY FAITH, MY FAMILY, OUR FUTURE
Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. In fact, the first nonwhite that Minnesota has ever elected to Congress. That wasn’t why he ran, however. Quite simply, he entered politics because he wanted to make a difference—to contribute...
$25.00
The Civil Rights Revolution (Volume 3) (We the People)
The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman's sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v. Board of Education. From Rosa Parks’s courageous defiance, to Martin Luther King’s resounding cadences in “I Have a Dream,” to Lyndon Johnson’s leadership of...
$24.00
$19.20
THE REJECTED STONE: AL SHARPTON AND THE PATH TO AMERICAN LEADERSHIP
Lord knows, Rev Al has had his personal and very public ups and downs - but he's come out bigger and better than ever. Though the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation is as fiery and outspoken as ever about the events...
$21.56
THE BRIDGE: THE LIFE AND RISE OF BARACK OBAMA
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the...
$29.95
THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: THOUGHTS ON RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM
In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord...
$30.00
FIVE DAYS: THE FIERY RECKONING OF AN AMERICAN CITY
When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an “illegal knife” in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated “roughly” as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the...
$28.00
LOCKING UP OUR OWN: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN BLACK AMERICA
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why...
$27.99
$19.99