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A Slave No More
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Praise Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the...
all about love: New Visions By bell hooks
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"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel,...
America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities
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Reviews History books are replete with heroic stories of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, but what of Allen, Russwurm, and Hawley? America’s Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation’s early African American leaders. Many know that the Revolutionary War’s...
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives By Gary Younge
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A timely chronicle of what is now an ordinary day in America, where gun violence regularly takes the lives of children and teens, and leaves shattered families in its wake. Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award...
Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement: 1944-1968 (Images of America) By Karcheik Sims-Alvarado PhD
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Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a progressive...
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found By Gilbert King
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"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read." --Bryan Stevenson, author...
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together By: Van Jones
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Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the 2016 presidential campaign with an unscripted, truth-telling style and an already established history of bridge-building across party lines. His election night commentary became a viral sensation. A longtime progressive activist with deep roots in the conservative South,...
Black Economics
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Reviews This micro- and macro-analysis of economic conditions in the black community explores why African Americans earn only 61 percent of white American income, why many African Americans prefer to maintain a “good job” rather than own and operate their own businesses, and...
Black History Flash Cards Volume 1 UrbanIntellectuals
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Black History Flash Cards, designed to combat the mis-education and suppression of Black achievements around the globe. This volume’s 52 cards gives a strong foundation to the many untold stories, achievements, and unknown people that have given shape, color, and definition to the worlds of...
Black History For Beginners
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Reviews What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez’s crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito…that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him….that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black...
Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
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Here is the seminal and critical work that helped solidify Haki Madhubuti as an informed, passionate, and caring commentator on Black life, culture, relationships, and the development and stability of the Black community. In Black Men, an integral text for anyone with vested interest...
Blood in My Eye By: George L. Jackson
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Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a...
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
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Are African-Americans still slaves? Why can't Black folks get together? What is the psychological consequence for Blacks and Whites of picturing God as a Caucasian? Learn to break the chains of your mental slavery with this new book by one of the world's...
Brown vs. Topeka
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Compelling and engaging, this book analyzes whether or not African American students and administrators have reaped the benefits of desegregation. Brown vs. Topeka: Desegregation and Miseducation: An African American's View By Pansye Atkinson Paperback: 127 pages
Capitalism and Slavery By Eric Williams
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Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery,...
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Praise From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner, questions of...
Confounding the Color Line: The (American) Indian - Black Experience in North America By James F. Brooks(Editor)
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Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice....
Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children
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The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book. Developing Positive Self-Images & Discipline in Black Children By Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Paperback: 116 pages
Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar (Adst-dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy) By Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas Jim Robison John Bersia(Preface) Allan Goodman(Foreword)
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Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas. Some have called this development the “Hillary Effect.” But well before our most recent female secretary of state there was Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve in that capacity, and later Condoleezza Rice. Beginning...
Down These Mean Streets By Piri Thomas
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Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower By Brittney Cooper
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Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility." Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author...
Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House By Donna Brazile
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Explosive... A blistering tell-all."---Washington Post"People should sit up, take notes and change things."---Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times"Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."---The GuardianFrom Donna Brazile, former DNC chair and legendary political operative, an explosive and revealing new look at the 2016...
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing By Ben Austen
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Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project....
How the Right Lost Its Mind By Charles J. Sykes
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"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington Post Once at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise. In How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an...
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street By Matt Taibbi
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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014,...
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings By Steve Biko
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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's struggle...
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color By Andrea Ritchie Angela Y. Davis(Foreword)
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A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality,...
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art By Richard Russo Joyce Carol Oates Neil Gaiman Lee Child Mary Higgins Clark Jonathan Santlofer(Editor) Viet Thanh Nguyen(Introduction)
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In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women’s March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors—including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins...
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
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In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began...
Lone Survivor
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Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a...
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly By Walter Dean Myers, Leonard Jenkins(Illustrator)
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"I believe in recognizing every human beingas a human being, neither white, black, brown, nor red." This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of color. He lived by the idea that black people should demand equality by taking their...
Mein Kampf By Adolf Hitler, Ralph Manheim(Translator)
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In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed...
Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change By Stacey Abrams
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A personal and empowering blueprint―from one of America’s rising Democratic stars―for outsiders who seek to become the ones in charge Leadership is hard. Convincing others―and often yourself―that you possess the answers and are capable of world-affecting change requires confidence, insight, and sheer bravado. Minority Leader is the handbook for...
People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making By Karilyn Crockett
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In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cutting through the heart of Boston, making steady progress through the 1950s. But when officials began to hold public hearings in 1960, as it...
Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity By Condoleezza Rice & Amy B. Zegart
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From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it.The world is changing fast. Political risk-the probability that a political...
Racial Paranoia
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In this courageous book, John L. Jackson, Jr. draws on current events as well as everyday interactions to demonstrate the culture of race-based paranoia and its profound effects on our lives. He explains how it is cultivated and reinforced, and how it complicates...
