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RAP ON TRIAL: RACE, LYRICS, AND GUILT IN AMERICA
Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music...
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INSIDE A THUG'S HEART
Rikers Island is the centerpiece of the New York City Department of Corrections, a sprawling prison city of concrete and steel with housing for more than 16,000 inmates. Early in 1995, it was also the temporary home of legendary rapper...
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THELONIOUS MONK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL
Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century....
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MILES
In discussing his legendary forty-year career, Davis discusses music's "cool" era and fusion movement and offers candid views on fellow musicians, promoters, producers, critics, and his personal life. Product details Publisher : Simon & Schuster (September 1, 1989) Language : English Hardcover...
$35.00
MAMA PHIFE REPRESENTS: A MEMOIR (BREAKBEAT POETS)
Mama Phife Represents is a hybrid-story that follows the journey of a mother’s grieving heart through her first two years of public and private mourning. Told through a tapestry of narrative poems, dreams, anecdotes, journal entries, and letters, these treasured fragments...
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LET LOVE RULE
Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.“My life is all about opposites,” he writes. “Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I...
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DC JAZZ: STORIES OF JAZZ MUSIC IN WASHINGTON, DC
Publisher : Georgetown University Press; Illustrated edition (April 19, 2018)
Hardcover : 208 pages
ISBN-13 : 9781626165892
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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