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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (PB) (1989)
9780671687427$25.00In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...masterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to... -
On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century (PB) (2018)
9780807023044$18.00This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched... -
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History (PB) (2021)
9780062981288$17.99Republished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.99Subtotal: -
Negroland: A Memoir (PB) (2016)
9780307473431$16.00NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.00Subtotal: -
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (PB) (2019)
9780807039830Essence Authors 2023$17.95Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York... -
Kleptocracy: African Style (PB) (2018)
9781480941557$13.00Government corruption isn't new, but it isn't always openly discussed at length. Join author Alex Eke as he explores the immoral practices found on the African continent. Supported by facts, read about the atrocities inflicted on these countries. An... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (PB) (2020)
9780358212508$17.99"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." -- Los Angeles... -
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (PB) (1998)
9780684848280Mahogany's List of Black Banned Books$18.00The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of... -
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case Against the U.S. Government (HC) (2021)
9781948677806$28.00When a class-action lawsuit against the US government results in a billion dollar settlement for the aggrieved parties, you'd expect the story to be headline news . . .to be posted on social media everywhere . . . to be adapted to film or even to a... -
It Wasn't about Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War (PB) (2021)
9781684512232$19.99The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you've been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historian Samuel Mitcham argues in his provocative new book, It Wasn't About Slavery, no political party... -
In Search of Sisterhood: Delta SIGMA Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (PB) (2007)
9780688135096Women's History Selection$17.99Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan and Lena Horne: all prominent black women who made tremendous contributions to society in the fields of politics, education and the arts, and all members of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST). In... -
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action (HC) (2020)
9781645036692$28.00A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social... -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (CD) (2021)
9781549123405$40.00Instant #1 New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: -
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation (PB) (2014)
9781620400593$18.00I am in Birmingham because injustice is here, declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good... -
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (PB) (2020)
9780525432326$17.002020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it--a sweeping chronicle...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.00Subtotal: -
From Poverty to Prosperity: A Ghetto Exit Strategy as a Rite of Passage (PB) (2012)
9781936513567$14.95Although blacks living within America are still haunted by the same malevolent plights their ancestors sparred with and could not elude, Jermaine Jones refuses to agree they are all grounds for blacks, today, to simply surrender. Rather than opting for...