Black & African American

A Bold And Inspiring Memoir And Manifesto From A Renowned Voice In The Women's Leadership Movement Who Shows Women How To Cultivate The Single Skill They Re...

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 Wh...

Raised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we’ve come to ...

A Reese's Book Club X Hello Sunshine Book Pick The New York Times Bestseller 'this Book Is My Story About Growing Up In A Black Girl's Body.' From A Leading...

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The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker,...

the Acclaimed, First Comprehensive Biography Of The Most Successful Female Vocal Group Of All Time the Barnes & Noble Review the Lifespan Of The Supr...

Monumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America's first Black lieuten...

On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bast...

This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, sh...

In 1949, Florida's Orange Industry Was Booming With Cheap Jim Crow Labor. When A White Seventeen-year-old Groveland Girl Cried Rape, Vicious Sheriff Mccall ...

One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritua...

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A collection of inspirational messages presents the author's insights into such topics as friendship, grace, spirit,...

Using The Multiple Meanings Of Wake To Illustrate The Ways Black Lives Are Determined By Slavery's Afterlives, Christina Sharpe Weaves Personal Experiences ...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

...one Of The Most Compelling Accounts Of Slavery And One Of The Most Unique Of The One Hundred Or So Slave Narratives - Mostly Written By Men - Published B...

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery a...

Dust jacket notes: "'The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although unlettered, unarmed, a...

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There...

Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraord...

meet Denver, A Man Raised Under Plantation-style Slavery In Louisiana In The 1960s; A Man Who Escaped, Hopping A Train To Wander, Homeless, For Eighteen Y...

Jay Ellis, star of HBO’s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget—part Dwayne Wayne from A Different ...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

A Seasoned War Correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman Has Covered Every Major Conflict Over The Past Twenty Years, From Afghanistan To Iraq To The Congo. For The ...

Trailblazing filmmaker and powerhouse CEO Will Packer presents powerful and illuminating stories from the front lines of Hollywood to offer a clear vision o...

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 “Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But ...

Peace Was A Talented Young African-american Man Who Escaped The Slums Of Newark For Yale University, Only To Succumb To The Dangers Of The Streets -- And Of...

With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones—score the big promotion, find a soul ma...

Roxane Gay's New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism—a modern classic from one of the most promin...

A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year"Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growi...

The National Book Award-winning Author Of Stamped From The Beginning Offers A Bracingly Original Approach To Understanding And Uprooting Racism And Inequali...

The monumental bestseller! Alex Haley recaptures his family's history in this drama of eighteenth-century slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants.Categories: ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at la...

A number-one Washington Post bestseller, this memoir is the unforgettable story of a life and its times. As a student in Atlanta, Vernon Jordan had a summer...

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate A...

Sidney Poitier is One of the Most Revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model...

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America’s last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they cam...

In A Landmark Book, An Extraordinary Young Woman Recounts Her Coming-of-age As A Transgender Teen--a Deeply Personal And Empowering Portrait Of Self-revelat...

The Popular Comedian Traces Her Youth In Atlanta's Most Troubled Neighborhood At The Height Of The Crack Epidemic, Discussing Her Experiences With Petty Cri...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the aut...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet...

A Personal, Intimate, Photographic Celebration Of President Barack Obama In The Years Prior To His Presidency, From Friend And Former Aide David Katz From 2...

Obama Tells The Story Of His Improbable Odyssey From Young Man Searching For His Identity To Leader Of The Free World, Describing In Strikingly Personal Det...

"A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my persona...

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he ...

With A Poet's Gifted Ear, A Novelist's Sense Of Narrative, And A Journalist's Unsentimental Eye, Mitchell S. Jackson Candidly Explores His Tumultuous Youth ...

Hey you guys, it's Leslie. I'm excited to share my story with you. Now, I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-fi...

A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staf...