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Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes and Healing
“A comprehensive exploration of postpartum traditions that emphasize the importance of nurturing mothers during their most vulnerable times. From traditional recipes to rituals, this book highlights sisterhood and the need for comprehensive care that honors both the mother and the...
$20.00
Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball
The rousing story of two trailblazing superstars—Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone—whose improbable alliance and unsung legacies shaped the wildest and most innovative era of basketball history. In the early 1970s, playground courts across the United States were jammed with...
$30.00
Homemaking and Housekeeping: Forgotten Wisdom for Modern Times
Celebrating traditional and time-honored methods of cooking and housekeeping across the four seasons.Our modern world is infinitely more complex than the one previous generations inhabited, and the pace of life much quicker. Yet the way our grandmothers lived their lives...
$13.00
Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston
"A top-notch biography of a generational talent." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) A showstopping portrait of Whitney Houston as we’ve never seen her before—a woman in her full power, a musician who knew the impact of her gift, and a fulcrum of Black...
$32.00
The Here Project: Pride and Belonging in African Art
200 stunning images in this companion book to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art exhibition celebrate 70 LGBTQ+ African artistsWe are here. This powerful volume platforms artists whose work reflects their identities and experiences as African LGBTQ+ individuals. This is...
$40.00
The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia: A Memoir
Comedian and actor Byron Bowers’ wild, funny, and fearless memoir proves that healing can be a psychedelic experience―and that sometimes the only way to tell the truth is to laugh about it.Byron Bowers is a comic’s comic―the guy other comedians...
$30.00
Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (a Cookbook)
Beloved social media sensation Black Forager’s long-awaited guide to foraging, sometimes even in your own backyard, and vegan cooking.Alexis Nikole Nelson, best known to millions of fans as Black Forager, invites you on an adventure to discover the delicious and...
$35.00
The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance
In the spirit of American cultural prophecy―from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Rebecca Solnit―acclaimed writer Casey Gerald offers a groundbreaking work of joyous dissent and stunning vision, a survival guide to a society in crisis. “Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the...
$28.00
The Gospel and My Black Skin: Confronting the Past, Reclaiming the Future
Is Christianity really a white man's religion? Is it any good for Black people? Can a faith once used to enslave also empower Black lives? In The Gospel and My Black Skin, Dr. JP Foster boldly tackles the complex, often unspoken...
$23.00
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir
Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother's caretaker in this funny, moving, and unforgettable memoir. Angela Nissel always wanted her mother’s approval. But two defining events created a...
$22.00
Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past
A bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery, offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal—from the acclaimed author of The Whiteness of Wealth.The idea of reparations...
$30.00
Get Good with Money: 10 Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A ten-step plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your money—no matter how big or small your goals and no matter how rocky the market might be—by the inspiring and savvy “Budgetnista.”“No...
$18.00
Get Funky, Get Swoll
Get Funky, Get Swoll explores, demonstrates, and indicts the multifaceted and multifarious ways white supremacy, white culture, and, in very specific instances white people, have had a profound and tragic impact on the human experience of those people known as Black.The...
$18.00
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
Friends of the Good: How Remarkable Friendships Transform Our Lives
A successful investor, philanthropist, and leading wellness CEO “delivers impactful anecdotes and personal testimonies that inspire, motivate and celebrate the importance of community and connection” (Essence).A successful entrepreneur, Harvard Business School graduate, and devoted husband and parent, Demond Martin is,...
$28.00
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 Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking...
$30.00
Freedom: Essays
“Incredibly perceptive. . . . A stunning testimony from a talented writer who strips off false facades with honesty and vulnerability, and leaves us with a searing question: ‘Can you build a nation based on love?’”—mónica teresa ortiz, BookPage (starred review)ONE OF LIT...
$29.00
The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War
The page-turning and revelatory true story of America’s disastrous 1835 attack on the Seminoles in pre-statehood Florida, and the two men—a Black American and a renowned Indigenous warrior—who fought back for their homes and freedom, from the author of the “eye-opening marvel of...
$30.00
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
Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
THE CURATORS OF CULTURE: Celebrate Black digital art in this essay collection revealing how Black artists have shaped everything from TikTok dances to viral memesSteven Underwood digs into the current Black digital arts movement that has shaped popular culture for...
$30.00
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
"Greg Tate was my first, and in some ways truest, North Star . . . Greg was the first person who validated the art that I loved and made it intellectually viable." ―Questlove, from the foreword"The velocity and volume of his exuberance, his demands, his curiosities, and,...
$30.00
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre LordeA Lit Hub Independent Press BestsellerIncludes meditation exercises.The Fire Inside explores the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin through a Dharmic lens,...
$21.00
Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up
In Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey of discovery, Jones Royster weaves and reweaves data and details corralled from...
$30.00
The Fight Game in Black and White: A History of Black Boxing
An American sports legend offers a sweeping Black history of boxing, celebrating the trailblazing athletes who fought in the ring and against racial injustice.Features a 16-page photo insert.Here is Peter Jackson, a free-born Black tradesman and boxer from the island...
$22.00
Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley
"A prodigious feat of research, Feel the Floor is an act of redress that restores Bradley’s life and legacy.… Fresh interviews with still enchanted former students give us a window onto a man who moved so beautifully that it brought people to...
$36.00
Fearless Freedom: A Manifesto for Unlocking Wealth and Equality for All
The founder and CEO of the Fearless Fund shares the remarkable story of how she defended her life’s work in a landmark legal battle, drawing lessons from the civil rights movement and offering a playbook to help entrepreneurs, business leaders,...
$31.00
Faith Over Fear: Harnessing Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
"A powerful story of faith, perseverance, and resilience." — Anthony Fauci, M.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author and former Director of the NIAID Faith Over Fear isn’t just Michael Leach’s story; it’s yours too. Each decision leads to victory or regret. What will...
$27.00
A Fabulous Thru-Hike: 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail
New York City native Derick Lugo's life changed in 2012 when he spontaneously decided to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. In the years that followed, he became an advocate for the outdoors and eventually set out on his second thru-hike--this time...
$25.00