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My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra (Pre-Order, Oct 3 2023)
Ahmed Abdullah A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah... ArtAutobiography & Memoir
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Abbott
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Saladin Ahmed While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite.... BooksHistory
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Angela Davis
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Assata
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Be Holding
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Black Looks
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Blood in the Water
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Heather Ann Thompson On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and... Best-SellersBooks
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Bruce W. Talamon.
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Clouds over California
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Crook Manifesto
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Dancehall
The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Pre-Order, Nov 3 2023)
Beth Lesser This definitive study of the 1980s Jamaican Dancehall scene features hundreds of exclusive photographs and an accompanying text that capture a vibrant, globally influential and... ArtBooks
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Do You Remember House?
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Festac ´77
Various Artists Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77,... ArtBooks
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Francisco
Alison Mills Includes a new foreward by Saidya Hartman Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A... BooksClassics
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound
Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
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Heads Together
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I Am Sparkling
N.V. Parekh & His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980
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JAM
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Jamel Shabazz
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Jimi
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L.A. Object
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Legacy to Liberation
Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America
Fred Ho Legacy to Liberation is a groundbreaking anthology which documents & analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building in Asian-America from the 60s to the... Book ClubsBooks
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Mali Twist
Malick Sidibé Mali Twist offers an essential and immersive survey of the beloved African photographer Malick Sidibé―nicknamed “the eye of Bamako”―who chronicled the exuberant youth culture of his... ArtBooks
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My Soul Looks Back
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Nigeria
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No More Lies
The Myth & Reality of American History
Dick Gregory Republished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues... AntiracismBooks
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Outlaw Culture
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Soul of a Nation
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South of Pico
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Superfly
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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton
How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Revised)
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The Black Panther Party
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The Culture
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The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
James Baldwin The Evidence of Things Not Seen, award-winning author James Baldwin's searing 1985 indictment of the nation's racial stagnation, is contextualized anew by an introduction from New... BooksHistory
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
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The Morning Breaks
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The Sisterhood
How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Pre-Order, Nov 7 2023)
Courtney Thorsson One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to... BooksPre-Order
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The World Belonged to Us
Jacqueline Woodson Two children's book superstars join forces to celebrate the joy and freedom of summer in the city, which is gloriously captured in Jacqueline Woodson's... BooksChildren's
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Three Girls from Bronzeville
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Vibration Cooking
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Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "soul food" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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What Matters Most
Photographs of Black Life: The Fade Resistance Collection
Zun Lee This powerful collection highlights the importance of snapshots in Black American life: as tools to challenge stereotypes, and as a way to document family and... BooksNon-Fiction
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Wild Thing
The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
Philip Norman A shattering new biography of rock music’s most outrageous―and tragic―genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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