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PLEASE STOP HELPING US: HOW LIBERALS MAKE IT HARDER FOR BLACKS TO SUCCEED
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In "Please Stop Helping Us," Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding...
$15.99
THE HIDDEN COST OF BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN: HOW WEALTH PERPETUATES INEQUALITY
Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these encouraging signs, Thomas Shapiro argues in The Hidden Cost of...
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AGE AIN'T NOTHING BUT A NUMBER: BLACK WOMEN EXPLORE MIDLIFE
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Publisher : Beacon Press; 1st edition (May 15, 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 248 pages
ISBN-10 : 0807028231
ISBN-13 : 978-0807028230
$21.00
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THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION
For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted--relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now...
$24.95
THE MAKING OF BLACK LIVES MATTER: A BRIEF HISTORY OF AN IDEA
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in...
$27.95
BOOK OF THE LITTLE AXE
In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents...
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BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
"In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the...
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THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Created as a "living memorial" to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader's speeches, sermons and writings.
$15.95
ANTI-RACISM (WORDS OF CHANGE SERIES): POWERFUL VOICES, INSPIRING IDEAS
This colorful gift book introduces readers to the anti-racist movement through the stirring words of leaders, including the new generation of heroes building social justice and racial equity in the 21st century. A great way for teens, young people, and those new to anti-racism...
$16.95
GOOD KIDS, BAD CITY: A STORY OF RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTION IN AMERICA
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them. In...
$29.00
FIRST CLASS: THE LEGACY OF DUNBAR, AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL
"An analysis of the first US high school for African Americans, the publication of which will coincide with the opening of the school's new facility"-- Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America....
$26.95
IT WAS ALL A DREAM: A NEW GENERATION CONFRONTS THE BROKEN PROMISE TO BLACK AMERICA
Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom -- on...
$28.00
Black Man of The Nile (paperback)
Black Man of the Nile and His Family, first published in 1972, is Dr. Ben's best known work. It captures much of the substance of his early research on ancient Africa. In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses...
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FIVE DAYS: THE FIERY RECKONING OF AN AMERICAN CITY
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the...
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POEMS: MAYA ANGELOU
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful...
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A GOOD CRY: WHAT WE LEARN FROM TEARS AND LAUGHTER
One of America's most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed...
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THE BLACK UNICORN: POEMS
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."...
$15.95
SELECTED POEMS
This volume brings together the best of the Pulitzer Prize winner's work from three earlier books now out of print, and includes a section of new poems which have not appeared before in book form. The classic volume by the...
$12.99
DON'T CALL US DEAD: POEMS
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patricia Smith) Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an...
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AND STILL I RISE
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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Publisher : Random House; 1st edition (August 12, 1978)
Language : English
Hardcover : 64 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780394502526
ISBN-13 : 978-0394502526
$18.00
EGO-TRIPPING AND OTHER POEMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
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Publisher : Lawrence Hill Books; Revised edition (November 1, 1993)
Language : English
Paperback : 76 pages
ISBN-10 : 1556521898
ISBN-13 : 9781556521898
$10.95
THE DEAD EMCEE SCROLLS: THE LOST TEACHINGS OF HIP-HOP AND CONNECTED WRITINGS
In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged yellowish-brown paper rolled tightly into a can of spray paint. His quest to decipher this...
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THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI: 1968-1998 (PB)
This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967-1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men,...
$15.95
THE WEARY BLUES
Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of "The Weary Blues" reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a...
$26.00
JUST LIKE ME
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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition (January 14, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 32 pages
ISBN-10 : 0525582096
ISBN-13 : 9780525582090
$17.99
THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS
"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful...
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FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th...
$9.95
FULL WOMAN, FLESHLY APPLE, HOT MOON: SELECTED POEMS OF PABLO NERUDA
Praise for Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rilke: ""Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced.""-- Chicago Tribune ""This is, without any doubt, the best English rendering of Rilke. It is as faithful to the original as...
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PHENOMENAL WOMAN: FOUR POEMS CELEBRATING WOMEN
Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled...
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