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for laughing through the pain
I Finally Bought Some Jordans
New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux makes his long-awaited return with a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy...
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I Just Keep Talking
A Life In Essays
I Just Keep Talking
A Life In Essays
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage...
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I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust...
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.Ida B. Wells...
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In Search for the Color Purple
Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983...
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In the Shadow of the Mountain
A Memoir of Courage
In the Shadow of the Mountain
A Memoir of Courage
Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising...
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In the Shadow of the Mountain
A Memoir of Courage (Paperback)
In the Shadow of the Mountain
A Memoir of Courage (Paperback)
Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising...
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Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. Dasani was...
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Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Paperback)
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Paperback)
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott“From its first indelible pages...
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$17.00Sale price From $12.75It Was All a Dream
Biggie and the World That Made Him
SaleIt Was All a Dream
Biggie and the World That Made Him
From a talented young journalist on the rise, a deeply reported, timely new biography of the Notorious B.I.G., publishing for what would have been his...
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James Baldwin
a Biography
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon--Go Tell It on...
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James Baldwin
The Last Interview
James Baldwin
The Last Interview
Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin & other conversations “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was...
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Jimi
JIMI is the ultimate tribute to the greatest guitar player in rock and roll history, celebrating what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday on...
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Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues
The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues
The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
Celebrate James Baldwin's one-hundredth birthday anniversary with the first-ever illustrated biography of this legendary writer, orator, activist, and intellectual. Before he became a writer, James...
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Josephine
The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
Josephine
The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil...
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Journal of a Black Queer Nurse
Britney Daniels is a Black queer emergency-room nurse and social activist living in Chicago. This is her first book.In this searing, honest memoir, a Black...
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Jump at the Sun:
The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
Jump at the Sun:
The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher...
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June 4th EVENT: Don't Wait
Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won w/ Sonali Kohli, Sonia Banker, Nalleli Cobo, + Kahlila Williams
June 4th EVENT: Don't Wait
Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won w/ Sonali Kohli, Sonia Banker, Nalleli Cobo, + Kahlila Williams
WHO & WHAT: Join us for an IRL EVENT with journalist, Sonali Kohli as we celebrate her debut collection of stories, Don't Wait, which highlights...
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Just Pursuit
A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
Just Pursuit
A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. But she quickly realized...
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King
A Life
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly...
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King Pleasure
Jean-Michel Basquiat
King Pleasure
Jean-Michel Basquiat
This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his family, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences,...
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Left of Karl Marx
The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx
The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and...
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Leslie F*cking Jones
"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody else, they can't f*cking...
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Let's Talk about Hard Things
From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “like a good conversation with a friend” (The New Yorker) and...
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