Urban LIT.
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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the...
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History volume 1
On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last...
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Buck
A rebellious boy’s journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a...
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An Unforeseen Love 3
SAMIR and SELENA were happy and in love as they built a union together that was supposed to last a lifetime. But as it's often been said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Will Samir's repeated infidelities...
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Trap Queen
Fed up with feeling powerless, Lihanny takes the drug world by storm when she meets Malaki. But what happens when the love for the game trumps everything else? As a woman, Lihanny must work double time to prove herself to...
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Tori and Jace: Trapped in his Love
Success and love: can you really have both?Sex holds the power, while intellect soothes the mind, and Tori uses this fact to her advantage. She is a vicious woman who uses her virginity as a weapon when she realizes that...
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Til Death
Experience is supposed to be the best teacher. For LEROY BLY, it has taught him to always keep his head on a swivel if he wants to stay alive. But there's always something coming that can't be seen. With turmoil...
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Things Come Together 2
The conclusion of the two-part series, Things Come Together. This heart-warming yet sometimes somber romance follows Derek and Katie, two young millennials on individual journeys of self-discovery. Katie Berry, an alluring woman who comes from an ideal upper-class upbringing struggles to...
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Things Come Together
While working to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman of his dreams, Derek Dupree enters into a world of confronting his own insecurities while at the same time fighting to help his love overcome a strained relationship with an...
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Taking Down a Boss
Kim has a big secret that Keena knows nothing about. Will the secret cost them everything? Watch this riveting story unfold as these Queen City queens take you down a dark path of betrayal, lust, and turmoil on the hot...
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Sugar Babies...A Titillating Tale
Paige's privileged life ends abruptly, when her well to do parents cut her off financially after she drops out of school and refuses to move back home. Unwilling to get a job or struggle for cash, Paige decides finding a...
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Straight Beast Mode 2
Sometimes "The Call of The Wild" is all that can save you. Pure, raw, unadulterated animal instincts. These instincts are the driving force behind a beast's need for survival! The Tio clique came dangerously close to extinction as an attack...
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Stackin' Paper Part 7: Who Want Smoke
Genesis is embroiled in an all-out war with Maverick after mourning the loss of Nico Carter. Maverick proves to be an astute adversary, whose determination to win cannot be underestimated. Amir and Justina are now married, raising their son Desi,...
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