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Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground
Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground, Shock G shares his story in Keep It Beautiful.This fully illustrated memoir by Gregory "Shock G"...
$35.00
Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous...
$30.00
It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy
"More than a biography, It's No Wonder is a long-overdue act of recognition."--Booklist (starred review) The biography of Sylvia Moy, Motown’s first certified female in-house producer and songwriter, and one of the authors behind classic hits like “My Cherie Amour,” “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),”...
$30.00
It's Never Too Late: A Memoir
The star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous childhood to becoming a confident Hollywood powerbroker and groundbreaker who paved the way for today’s superstar talents. Marla Gibbs has been a Hollywood icon for...
$29.00
It Starts with Anger: A Punk Beginning. an Afropunk Ending.
From the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist comes the untold origin story of the multimillion-dollar AFROPUNK Festival—beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one Black kid’s search for belonging in the nineties New York City punk scene“A...
$32.00
Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship
A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusader Jackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime―the man who broke baseball’s color line in the twentieth century, opening...
$30.00
The Polygamist
Two's company...five is definitely a crowd! The Polygamist lures you into the web of the intertwined lives of four women drawn to one man. Meet Jonasi Gomora, a seemingly indomitable wealthy banking magnate oozing with money, power, and sex appeal. Jonasi...
$20.00
Pleasure, Please!: The Black Woman's Guide to Unapologetic Pleasure and Confidence
A fun, exciting, and informative guide to sexual health, wellness, and pleasure for women of color In Pleasure, Please! The Black Woman's Guide to Unapologetic Pleasure and Confidence, certified sex educator Ashley Cobb delivers a comprehensive and empowering new exploration of sexual...
$22.00
The Pink Robe Chronicles: Womanist Wisdom for Healing, Liberation, and Love
For Black women who've grown weary of shrinking back. The Pink Robe Chronicles began in a moment of heartbreak. In August 2016, Rev. Dr. Melva L. Sampson wrapped herself in a tattered pink robe, pressed "Go live" on Facebook, and...
$25.00
Phases: A Memoir (Original)
• INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! •The iconic, multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning performer Brandy brings us a raw, intimate portrait of her life, charting her journey from Mississippi churches to Hollywood spotlightsFrom the moment she first sang at church in McComb, Mississippi, Brandy knew...
$33.00
The Perilous Fight
A defining and uncompromising memoir from Super Bowl quarterback and renowned civil rights activist, Colin Kaepernick. “A candid, observant, generous chronicle of his development as an elite, suddenly dispensable NFL quarterback and also of the relentless, high-profile civil rights warrior...
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The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work."Remind[s] us there is power...
$30.00
Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life
An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora Growing up in World War II–era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marshall (1929–2019) was fiercely driven to become a writer, making art from...
$30.00
Party Line: Poems
A debut collection that examines US-Cuba tensions, transnational Black identity, and revolutionary gatheringsKyle Carrero Lopez’s electrifying debut collection centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba relations, and the lives of Black people in the United States and Cuba. Through familial,...
$17.00
The Overseer Class: A Manifesto
The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the...
$32.00
Out of the Rough: Ted Rhodes and His Fight Against Golf's Color Barrier
The long-overdue biography of golfing pioneer Ted Rhodes.After winning The Masters in 1997, Tiger Woods paused to express gratitude to three African American golf pioneers. One was Ted Rhodes. As prolific as Woods would go on to become, his success...
$32.00
Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited--And the Fight to Retake Control
An exploration of how African American innovators and artists—whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers—have fought for and often won the rights to own and benefit from their own work.When...
$29.00
The Other America
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “The Other America,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before an audience at Stanford University and described two Americas:...
$23.00
On Witness and Respair: Essays
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair.From the two-time National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Jesmyn Ward,...
$29.00
On Morrison
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, BOOK RIOT AND LIT HUBAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard...
$32.00
On His Royal Badness: The Life and Legacy of Prince's Fashion
A garment-by-garment exploration of Prince's singular style and continued influence on contemporary fashion. Not only was Prince a musical genius and one of the greatest artists of all time, he was a fashion icon, a trailblazer devoted to the art...
$15.00
Oklahoma Reconsidered: A History
Oklahoma Reconsidered provides a concise and conversational history of Oklahoma from the 1700s and into the twenty-first century by two historians who show how Oklahoma has been shaped by wars, epidemics, civil rights movements, and unified efforts to heal after devastating...
$30.00
Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
Gorgeous photos, detailed maps, and a moving personal narrative narrate grueling expeditions to the source of Africa’s famous Okavango Delta, a sanctuary of biodiversity.Explorers discover signs of Angola's ghost elephants—presumed extinct after decades of civil war but now reappearing in...
$50.00
Ocean of Bones: The Hunt for the Pirate Slave Ship Guerrero
In the tradition of Shadow Divers and The Wager, the incredible story of the pirate slave ship Guerrero, which wrecked in the Florida Keys, and the scuba divers who tracked it down nearly two hundred years later.In 1827, the brig Guerrero was racing across the Florida...
$30.00
Notes on a Blacklash: When a Black Woman Goes Viral
The veteran White House correspondent follows up Black Women Will Save the World with a gripping, soul-baring, and deeply personal examination of online misogynoir—specific and relentless online bullying attacks based solely on race and gender. Notes on a Blacklash is veteran White House...
$36.00
Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.“This...
$36.00
No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourseWashington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American literary community, despite often being overshadowed by the literary worlds...
$30.00
No Lace Fronts in Iowa City: poems
In her debut collection, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City, Meghan Malachi explores how community, desirability, and notions of home influence the journeys by which girls come of age. These poems celebrate a South Bronx childhood and navigate a complicated womanhood...
$20.00
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
"More than a stuffy business guide, this book offers readers powerful wisdom about dropping archaic philosophies regarding being a Black woman in corporate structures and instead tapping into their bold authentic selves―red lipstick and all." ―ESSENCE "In this faith-based book,...
$25.00
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
An irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collection gathers essential tales about growing up in the South, the pitfalls of date night, and why no one should ever tell a Black girl how to Black Girl.Black women always find...
$30.00