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Cardinal
Tyree Daye’s Cardinal is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic “Green Book”― the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye’s family and upbringing, which have been deliberately blurred, it also...
$16.00
Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players
The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron—a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston—and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League...
$27.00
Ain't Never Not Been Black
Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways.Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly to the page,...
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished...
$30.95
Bob Marley: Portrait of the Legend
In honor of Bob Marley's seventy-fifth birthday, this glorious oversize book collects more than 150 photographs that celebrate the life and influence of the forefather of reggae and one of the greatest musical and sociopolitical icons of twentieth-century pop culture.Drawing...
$55.00
Cassius X: The Transformation of Muhammad Ali
An in-depth exploration of the pivotal Cassius Clay transformed into Muhammad Ali, exploring the events, relationship, and experiences that shaped him. Although Muhammad Ali's decision to assume a new name has often been portrayed as a sudden transformation, Cassius Clay's...
$18.99
42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacyBefore the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15,...
$27.95
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for...
$29.95
I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student...
$40.00
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
New and selected poems from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poetThese songs run along dirt roads& highways, crisscross lonely seas& scale mountains, traverse skies& underworlds of neon honkytonk,Wherever blues dare to travel.Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth brings together selected poems from the past...
$35.00
Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching
A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by...
$24.95
A Strange Loop
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts...
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Duende: Poems, 1966-Now
The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Quincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. It's the music you make with them that matters. He's not...
$19.95
An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods (Revised)
400 Soul Food Recipes for Appetizers, Main Meals, Breads, Pies, Cakes, Salads, and More!An African American Cookbook: Exploring Black History and Culture Through Traditional Foods is a bountiful collection of favorite foods and the memories that go with them. The foods...
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
Winner • Mark Lynton History Prize New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2019 The award-winning biography that restores William Monroe Trotter to his essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and Malcom X in the pantheon of American...
$35.00
Felon: Poems
Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful work of lyric art.” ―New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration―canvassing a wide range...
$26.95
A Fortune for Your Disaster
“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” ―Booklist, Starred Review In his much-anticipated...
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
The basis of a major PBS documentary by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns (first airing: October 13, 2020 at 9PM ET), this revelatory history shows how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. It’s hardly a secret that mobility has...
$28.95
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a heart-wrenching testimony before the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) Credentials Committee. In this speech, Hamer represented both the concerns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the limits of American democracy when she...
$34.00
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The very existence of freedom...
$35.00
Be Holding: A Poem
Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardBe Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers. But this book-length poem is...
$17.00
Finna: Poems
Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy“Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country in a strikingly...
$17.00
I Heart Soul Food: 100 Southern Comfort Food Favorites
From the beloved creator of I Heart Recipes and home cook Rosie Mayes comes a cookbook chock-full of soul food favorites.Learn to cook comfort food the way Mom used to! Here Rosie shares all the secrets of southern classics like fried chicken,...
$24.95
Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 186
This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the...
$25.00
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
NOW BEING TURNED INTO A DOCUMENTARY TO BE AIRED ON AMC IN 2018 . ****New York Times Best Seller**** ****Picked by Billboard as One of the 100 Greatest Music Books of All-Time**** ****Pitchfork Book Club's first selection**** . Here's what The...
$19.95
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events.When Roots was first published forty years ago,...
$18.99
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective...
$28.99
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a...
$30.00
The Annotated African American Folktales
* Winner of the 2018 NAACP award for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction* Recipient of the 2019 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice AwardThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing...
$39.95
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS 0F 2018AN NPR AND PITCHFORK BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 PICKONE OF TIME'S 25 BEST PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018NEW YORK TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS, WALLSTREET JOURNAL, ROLLING STONE, AND CHICAGO SUN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE PICKThe perfect gift for music and photography...
$40.00