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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (HB)
9780062379290$28.992018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our... -
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
9780593083925$27.00Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with oneself. The practice of mindfulness increases one's emotional resilience, helps people to recognize their unconscious bias, and gives them the space to... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MM)
9780451529947High School Reading List$4.95Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one... -
The Black Book (Anniversary) (35th ed.)
9781400068487$35.00A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. "I am so pleased the book is alive again. I... -
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
9780895941220$16.99"ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings... -
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (PB)
9781476749075$16.00The "brilliantly wry" (Lena Dunham) and "lovably awkward" (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO's Insecure. In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae--"a... -
Revolutionary Suicide: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
9780143105329Essence Authors 2023$18.00The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner... -
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
9780525560326$25.00"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his... -
The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families (HC) (2023)
9781797216829$40.00Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black excellence. The New Brownies' Book reimagines the very first... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
9780679745426$15.00An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature. Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and... -
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires (PB)
9780062437600$17.99"By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history."--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of... -
I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
9781627796064Essence Authors 2023$17.00Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com,... -
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
9780385722704$18.95This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$18.95Subtotal: -
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
9780316510936$16.00Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and... -
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
9780385527460Essence Authors 2023$18.00An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet... -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
9781250134769$26.99An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George. An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals...