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Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life
A passionate and illuminating account of soul, the hard-won wisdom shepherded by Black people throughout generations How did enslaved Africans turn America’s infamous failure into the greatest moral occasion of modern Western life? In this book, Christopher Freeburg answers that...
$28.00
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
A vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change. Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to...
$24.00
Freedom's Gate: Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub that Shaped the Civil Rights Movement
An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement. Before they were household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to...
$35.00
Freedom's Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and Education
From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read.In the waning days of the antebellum South, millions of African Americans were...
$31.00
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad’s long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave ShipAs many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum...
$33.00
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from...
$34.00
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on...
$32.00
Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen
NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen – the Black pilots who fought for America in WWII – who went missing in combat, the lives they...
$30.00
Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre—and the world—forever. "This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of our brilliant...
$27.00
Fences
From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be...
$15.00
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The TODAY Show, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, W Magazine, Oprah Daily, LibraryReadsPraised as “funny and witty” by Kwame Alexander on the TODAY show, now published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the...
$32.00
The Essential June Jordan
Honored as a "Best Book of 2021" by Publishers Weekly"This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power...
$18.00
The Emmett Till Case
Summer 1955. The murder of a young Black teenager becomes a pivotal moment in American history.At the end of August 1955, the lifeless and disfigured body of a teenager was fished out of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The body...
$16.00
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black...
$30.00
A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power
From CNN’s Abby Phillip comes a fresh, nuanced portrait of legendary civil rights activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson.“A joyful, rich, must-read biography of a politician whose flaws and gifts were in constant, intense competition.” ―Jake TapperJesse Jackson was one of the...
$31.00
Cudi: The Memoir
A raw, fearless memoir from the Grammy Award–winning artist, actor, and designer Kid Cudi about a kid from Cleveland who found purpose in the darkness and became a guiding light for a generation.Cudi: The Memoir is Scott Mescudi’s most personal work...
$30.00
The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America
“In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a book about America's favorite lie—that good intentions lead to justice. Ellis is a rigorous historian and a visceral storyteller, and he has produced something essential: a reckoning with...
$30.00
Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History
America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every human being carries the image of God--within those ideals. Yet these rights were systemically withheld from...
$18.00
Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora
*NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work - Children**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*From the New York Times bestselling duo who brought you GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty, comes CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora. Filled with visual magic and storytelling wonder,...
$35.00
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history. A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways...
$14.00
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would...
$33.00
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2025 | BookRiot's Best Books of 2025 | NPR's New Books to Read | Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist BookA crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of...
$30.00
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals
$28.00
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals
This amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen, is “the book Black America needs in this moment” (Eboni...
$28.00
The Complete Poetry
The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning”Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the...
$30.00
Coming Home
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.“Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time...
$30.00
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire “The Come...
$35.00
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017Longlisted for the National Book Award This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). In this groundbreaking history of the...
$30.00
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine).Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes...
$23.00
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
NAACP IMAGE AWARD: OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK "What a gift this book is." — Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author "Leaps off the page." — Publishers Weekly A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers—both famous and little-known,...
$40.00
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
From the renowned author of Invisible Man,a classic, “elegant” (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into racial identity, jazz and folklore, and citizenship across six decades.Compiled, edited, and newly revised by...
$30.00