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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
9780307383419$30.00#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race"... -
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
9781571313560$20.00A New York Times bestsellerA Washington Post bestsellerA Los Angeles Times bestsellerNamed a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubA Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading... -
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (HC) (2021)
9780744042146Essence Authors 2023$25.00Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. With profiles of key people, movements, and events, The Black History Book brings together accounts of the... -
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis (PB) (2019)
9781620148549$9.95This new entry in the innovative Story line of chapter-book biographies focuses on John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a revered Congressman today. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of... -
Haiti: The First Black Republic
9780996541145$20.00Haiti The First Black Republic tells the story of the fall of Haiti, and the subsequent rise that led Haiti becoming the first black republic. The instrumental war heroes and the actions of the Haitian people to fight and gain independence from European... -
Negroes with Guns
9781607968047$9.99Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This... -
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
9781479886036$27.00Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to... -
Dear White People: A Guide to Inter-Racial Harmony in "Post-Racial" America
9781476798097$19.99In the satirical tradition of the "New York Times" bestseller "Stuff White People Like" comes this witty companion book to the "incredibly entertaining" ("Indiewire") film of the same name, which "heralds a fresh and funny new voice" ("Variety"). ... -
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
9780375713712$15.95Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence--with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It's "the nuclear... -
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
9781501126345$25.00The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race--collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation--are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$25.00Subtotal: -
A Dying Colonialism
9780802150271$14.95An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order... -
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
9780062880116$17.99WITH WIT AND PIERCING INSIGHT, JOY-ANN REID CALCULATES THE TRUE PRICE OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY Is Donald Trump running the "longest con" in U.S. history? What will be left of America when he leaves office? Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was... -
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
9781250276759$25.99AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption."Powerfully illuminating,... -
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
9781492679011$25.99The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid's tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child,... -
We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True (PB)
9780062693990$16.99In the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman... -
Malcolm X Speaks
9780802132130$14.00These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last eight tumultuous months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Beginning with his break...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.00Subtotal: