Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood FeminismFrom gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the...
$32.00
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.“This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a...
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Comin soon – August 20, 2024)
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus...
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Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story
An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel...
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Sideshow: Living with Loss and Moving Forward with Faith (Coming soon- September 17, 2024)
How do you live with the pain of watching someone you love suffer from addiction? How do you cope with the grief of losing them especially when your job is to make people laugh every day? Comedian Rickey Smiley has...
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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist (Coming soon-July 16, 2024)
The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature’s most misunderstood animal—the shark."Jasmin Graham has that winning combination of talent and grit needed to...
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Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamyOn June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop....
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A Seat at the Table: The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
When Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her?Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in...
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Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
"In Black Privilege, Charlamagne presents his often controversial and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success. This journey to truth begins in the small town of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, and...
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Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks (Hardcopy)
From Charlamagne Tha God, host of the morning radio phenomenon The Breakfast Club, and founder and CEO of iHeartRadio’s Black Effect Podcast Network, a rundown on how small talk from small minds have taken over our world, and the BIG conversations...
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The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose (Coming soon- September 24, 2024)
A powerful, timely memoir of Black immigrant identity, the story of an unforgettable matriarch, and a unique coming-of-age story by Nigerian American actress Uzo Aduba.The actress Uzo Aduba came of age grappling with a master juggling act: as one of...
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Rise of a Killah
The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding membersDennis Coles―aka Ghostface Killah―is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking all the rules,...
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
A revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.”The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a...
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Remember, You Are a Wiley (Coming soon-September 17, 2024)
A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst, professor, civil rights lawyer and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved...
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The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops
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The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops
The true story behind Crispus Attucks High School and the all-Black basketball team loosely depicted as the championship opponent in the beloved classic sports movie Hoosiers. For far too long the mythology of Indiana basketball has been dominated by Hoosiers. Framed as the...
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Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It (coming soon-September 10, 2024)
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Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It (coming soon-September 10, 2024)
A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester...
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Pretty: A Memoir
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as...
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Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond (coming soon-August 20, 2024)
NFL football star Vernon Davis delves into his astonishing career, from winning Super Bowl 50 in 2016 with the Denver Broncos to reinventing himself as an actor and producer, and recalls the hard-won lessons—including that infamous press conference—that paved his...
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (coming soon-August 6, 2024)
The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in...
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune (coming soon-July 23, 2024)
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberationWhen Mary McLeod...
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Pack Light: A Journey to Find Myself
After losing her job due to the coronavirus pandemic, a vet tech decides to confront the roots of her childhood traumas by hiking the Appalachian Trail.Pack Light follows a woman's journey changing the narrative of Hiking While Black—because the Great Outdoors...
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
“Groundbreaking...Through Tiya Miles’ meticulous research and an unwavering focus on Tubman’s humanity, Night Flyer has transformed a fantastical figure from a bygone time into an accessible, modern-day inspiration.” - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Though broad strokes of Tubman’s story are widely known, Miles probes deeper,...
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System―and Pocketed $40 Million (Paperback-August 13, 2024)
A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions—who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith...
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History (Paperback - August 13, 2024)
A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion―and the new definitive account.In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which...
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother...
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The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza is an unforgettable travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all.Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas...
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Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICKBy turns harrowing and hopeful, MAKE IT COUNT is the inspiring story of the first openly transgender woman to win a NCAA title, following her traditional upbringing in Jamaica, her fight to become...
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Lovely One: A Memoir
In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world,...
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