Urban LIT.
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American commissioned officer in the...
$29.95
$17.97
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished...
$40.00
Black Designers in American Fashion
From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However, many of their achievements have gone unrecognized. This book, inspired...
$40.00
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed―marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively...
$35.00
$33.25
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and...
$30.00
$18.00
Black Art: A Cultural History
The African diaspora―a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism―has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the music videos of...
$29.95
$17.97
Black American History For Dummies
Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the complexities and the intrigues that make up Black...
$24.99
$14.99
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song
Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child, the specter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the...
$28.00
$16.80
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from...
$28.00
$16.80
Be My Baby
Ronnie Spector's first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, "Be My Baby," stunned the world and shot girl group the Ronettes to stardom. No one could sing as clearly, as emotively as Ronnie. But her voice was soon drowned out in...
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$16.79
Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
By twenty-two years old, Aaliyah had already accomplished a staggering amount: hit records, acclaimed acting roles, and fame that was just about to cross over into superstardom. Like her song, she was already “more than a woman” but her shocking...
$27.00
$16.20
Asylum
On the eve of Edafe Okporo’s twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years—that he is a gay...
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Revised)
On 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 from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed.She heard one officer say,...
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$10.79
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
“I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the...
$28.95
$18.95
Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement (Original)
Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of the bus boycott that had rocked the city of in Montgomery,...
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$19.99
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned...
$32.00
$19.20
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological―bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty―“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws...
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of...
$40.00
$24.00
African Europeans: An Untold History
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 long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice...
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$18.00
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories...
$30.00
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