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Empowering Your Journey, One Story at A Time.Grace to Overcome invites you on a spiritual and historical journey, interweaving the rich tapestry of Black history with the profound narratives of the Bible. Crafted by Pastor Bryan C. Loritts, an...

"A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World." --Time In 1518, the Atlantic slave trade began with the landing in...

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro,"...

Born Free & Equal The 1st Michigan Colored Regiment was the state's first and only African American regiment during the Civil War. Courageously enlisting amid societal turmoil, these determined men fought valiantly, on the battlefield and off, in the...

On August 19, 1958, Clara Luper and thirteen Black youth walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and sat down at the lunch counter. When they tried to order, they were denied service. As they sat in silence, refusing to leave, the surrounding white...

The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States. In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who...

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordinary things for the Black liberation struggle during...

In 1898, during an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence. The deployment included three regiments of the famed African American "Buffalo Soldiers."...

A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets--with urgent lessons for today A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar...

A crucial telling of American history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of American culture we see today. Emerging first in the American South during slavery, conjure women who were enslaved on plantations used their...

From MLK to Parks, Douglass to Tubman, Black History Legends Alphabet is an A to Z of the most inspiring, brave, and influential Black heroes to ever live.Beautifully illustrated and powerfully written, this book is a lesson to children everywhere in...

The breathtaking story of one family's journey to restore, renovate, and preserve a historic mansion. It's a million-dollar project with gorgeous potential--and many challenges. THE CHANCELLOR'S MANSION was built by William Townsend McCoun, a public...