Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
Who's That Girl?: A Memoir (coming soon-September 17, 2024)
The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, reaching number one on the Billboard...
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When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power--and Empower Others Along the Way
From one of the first and few women of color to reach the C-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former chief of HR and first VP of inclusion and diversity, comes a heartfelt story of growing up Black and female in...
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What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection
A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights. "Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible—from the level of the individual to that of law, culture, and...
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We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men
As seen in the New York Times The women have something to say. Are you listening? In this powerful and needed collection, editor Angela P. Dodson brings together the voices of more than thirty-five accomplished women writers on the topic of...
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We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything
Black Chicago culture is American culture.During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying what would be one of the city’s greatest musical art forms. In...
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The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown
“Remarkable . . . The Way You Make Me Feel affirms that Black and Brown existence in America comes with no guarantee of collective solidarity, no innate promise of racial equality. The path to justice is uncertain, Sharma reminds us, and we...
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a...
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Under Jackie's Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
Under Jackie’s Shadow is a portal to the hidden world of Minor League baseball in the era just after Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.What was it like to be Black and playing in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in...
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Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms
Shaunie Henderson—wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wives—opens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today’s world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by...
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Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until now, from New York Times bestselling author Therese Oneill.Slut. Shrew. Sinful. Scold. The...
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Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes On a Deadly American Epidemic
The inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issuesRob Gore first encountered violence when he was beaten...
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Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
A stunning lyrical commentary on the constructions of race, gender, and class in the fraught nexus of a Black woman’s personal experience and cultural histor The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, and more than fifty years later, yours seems...
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To Reach the Nation's Ear: A History of African American Public Speaking (coming soon-August 15, 2024)
Throughout much of American history, African Americans have been denied easy access to most of the traditional modes of effective reform, such as newspapers, legislative assemblies, unions and political parties. Public speaking has thus been one of the most critically...
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To Be a Problem: A Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement (Coming soon-July 9,2024)
A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of colorFor over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the...
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Tiger, Tiger: His Life, As It’s Never Been Told Before (coming soon- July 15, 2024)
The impossible life of Tiger Woods—how did he become the G.O.A.T., what drove him to fall so spectacularly, and how has he made his way back to the pinnacle of golf? In Patterson’s hands, Tiger’s story is an unputdownable thriller.On...
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Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright’s long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright’s family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers...
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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...
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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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