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Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince
The real Prince in the words of those who knew him best—from award-winning author Touré.Nothing Compares 2 U is an oral history built from years of interviews with dozens of people who were in Prince’s inner circle—from childhood friends to band...
$30.00
Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide to Black Pregnancy & Motherhood (Gift for New Moms)
$18.95
Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide to Black Pregnancy & Motherhood (Gift for New Moms)
What to Expect When You’re Black, Pregnant, and Expecting “This book stands as the modern-day guide to birthing while Black.” ―Angelina Ruffin-Alexander, certified nurse midwife, owner of Touch of Osun Midwifery Services #1 New Release in Pregnancy & Childbirth and Minority...
$18.95
Pops: Learning to Be a Son and a Father
A deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, addiction, and resiliency from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC’s Today show. For Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's...
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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK • A TODAY SUMMER READING LIST PICK • AN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK • A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF SUMMER PICKA poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity, and addiction“Punch Me Up to the Gods obliterates what we thought were the...
$26.00
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was...
$26.95
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
$24.95
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original...
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Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant’s vibrant personal metamorphosis.Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad―raised by his indomitable grandmother, Miss Excelly, and her King James Bible―Antonio Michael...
$25.00
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time—from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is "among the most incisive American commentators on race" (The New York Times).Informed by sharpness...
$30.00
Seeing Serena
A riveting chronicle of trailblazing tennis champion and cultural icon Serena Williams’s turbulent 2019 tour season and a revealing portrait of who she is, both on and off the court.Serena Williams is an undisputed global sports celebrity. Ranked #12 on...
$26.00
Shades of Black
One might say that the womb of death&;the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization&;gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a...
$14.50
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This is a book people will be talking about forever.” ―Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed“Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and...
$27.99
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
“Hear the dark liquor of her laughter rippling behind her sentences” in this magnetic memoir as it explores a journalist’s obsession with pop culture and the difficulty of navigating relationships as a Black woman through fanfiction, feminism, and Southern mores...
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Stones: Poems
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles Times)."We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on...
$27.00
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes...
$26.99
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science. In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from...
$28.00
The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier
The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946.
$28.00
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
The inspirational true story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa. Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in...
$28.00
The Hill We Climb and Other Poems
A collection of poetry by presidential inaugural poet Amanda GormanIncluding "The Hill We Climb," the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing...
$19.99
The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter“The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin...
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The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis “beautiful tribute to a legendary artist” (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business...
$27.00
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani Cobb This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and...
$35.00
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse by policeDrawing upon...
$30.00
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment―and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception.A Kirkus Reviews "8 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer"In The Second, historian...
$28.00
The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980
A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibition What is “Black art”? This question was posed...
$39.95
The Ugly Cry: A Memoir
“They say comedy equals tragedy plus time: This very funny account of an often miserable childhood is proof.” --People“What a strong, funny, heartbreaking memoir, with a voice that is completely its own (written by a woman who very much seems to...
$27.00
Things I Have Withheld
By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical...
$26.00
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism
In this ‘vital book for these times’ (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today’s most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host...
$28.00
This Is Basic Sh*t: Uncensored Thoughts from a Black Dude about Stuff We Know and Are Shocked You Don't
From the creator of the award-winning TV series black-ish comes a collection of personal, hilarious, and provocative essays on what it's like to be black in America today.In THIS IS BASIC SH*T, Kenya Barris uses his own personal stories to talk about...
$28.00
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
A “beautiful, tragic, and inspiring” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work that allow some...
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Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 2: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2
$34.99
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 2: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2
This continuation of Gabrielle David’s odyssey into the lives and careers of 150 brilliant black women from the eighteenth century to the present brings together biographies of women who blazed uncharted paths alongside powerful photographs that illustrate their lives. This...
$34.99