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  • Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope (PB) (1996)
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    Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope (PB) (1996)

    9780446671057
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    A raw and hopeful autobiography of a young African-American who used self-education and sheer force of will to overcome the battery of drugs, violence, and abject povery of his early life in the Dallas projects.
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  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent: When A Woman Cries Rape The Life Story of Ronald Eubanks (PB) (2020)
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    Guilty Until Proven Innocent: When A Woman Cries Rape The Life Story of Ronald Eubanks (PB) (2020)

    9781647010423
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    A black man, a white woman, and twenty-five years. The unbelievable true story of Ronald Eubanks's life. A young boy from the streets of Dallas grows up to become a wrongly convicted sex offender. Do the decisions we make as we're younger delineate the...
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  • Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon (PB) (2002)
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    Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon (PB) (2002)

    9780306811364
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    Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. Now, finally, we have a definitive biography, said Booklist of...
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  • Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging
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    Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging

    9780593229620
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    Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders--Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others--share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty. Over the...
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  • Think Black: A Memoir by Clyde W. Ford
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    Think Black: A Memoir

    9780062890566
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    A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insider's view of the tech industry. . . simultaneously informative and entertaining. . . A powerful,...
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  • Ordinary Light: A Memoir Ordinary Light: A Memoir
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    Ordinary Light: A Memoir

    9780345804075
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    The dazzling memoir from the U.S. Poet Laureate and author of Wade in the Water and Life on Mars. Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Denver Post In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer...
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  • Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
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    Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

    9780062201027
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    2016 NAACP Image Award Winner An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years...
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  • Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original 9781439190463 Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original 9781439190463
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    Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original 9781439190463

    9781439190463
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    From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial. Thelonious...
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  • The Lost Daughter
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    The Lost Daughter

    9780399160868
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    Williams was born to Black Panther parents and grew up in Oakland, California, in the 70s--a vivid childhood during a time of immense political and cultural upheaval, though hardly idyllic. A daughter of the Black Panther movement tells her remarkable...
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  • Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Toni Morrison Lecture)
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    Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Toni Morrison Lecture)

    9780691140186
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    Publisher Comments: Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her...
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  • Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs
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    Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs

    9780393077476
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    This stunning, visual biography of Michelle Obama chronicles her life since becoming First Lady. Photos of her on Inauguration Day, at play with her daughters, and greeting dignitaries at the White House place the popular First Lady into a cultural and...
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  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    9780375507892
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    Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as...
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  • I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America (HC) (2024)
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    I Once Was Lost: My Search for God in America (HC) (2024)

    9780316567695
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    In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith--and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation. ...
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  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden (PB) (2024)
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  • The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America (PB) (2024)
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    The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game from Black America (PB) (2024)

    9798987407639
    $18.00
    The world's greatest card game awaits you. Combining the strategic engagement of Bridge and the risk-taking swagger of Poker, Bid Whist has captivated luminaries like Justice Thurgood Marshall, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson-and inspired a passionate...
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  • The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are (HC) (2023)
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    The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are (HC) (2023)

    9780593446928
    $26.99
    "Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop's Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has refined literary fire from the soulful furnace of pain and suffering."--The New York Times From one of our generation's most powerful artists and incisive...
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