Bet on Black
The Good News about Being Black in America Today
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My People
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Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court
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Ben Fletcher
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
Peter Cole In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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A Strange Celestial Road
My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra (Pre-Order, Oct 3 2023)
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Making a Scene
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How Far the Light Reaches
A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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Pies from Nowhere
How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
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The Wind at My Back
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Ain't But a Few of Us
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A Renaissance of Our Own
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Meditation on Abolition
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Wildflower
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Black Women Will Save the World
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The Art of Ruth E. Carter
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The Grimkes
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To Boldly Go
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Angela Dalton Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures and Mae Among the Stars! To Boldly Go tells the true story of Nichelle Nichols and how she used her platform on Star Trek to inspire... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave
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Vibration Cooking
or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
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Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar
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Charnelle Pinkney Barlow A picture-book biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll—a warm, inspiring tale of a childhood filled with music, community, and... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . .... AntiracismArt
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Ain't That a Mother
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Home Bound
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Someday Mija
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Star Child
A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler (Paperback)
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Harry Belafonte
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Stay True
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds
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Dyscalculia
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Hijab Butch Blues
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Requiem for the Massacre
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In the Shadow of the Mountain
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
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You Mean It or You Don't
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Redress
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A Map to the Door of No Return
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Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Paperback)
Dan Charnas Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music... Autobiography & MemoirBest-Sellers
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Chingona
Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
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Walking Gentry Home
A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
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Chuck Berry
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Stand Up!
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The Milky Way
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The Green Piano
How Little Me Found Music
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Not Everyone is Going to Like You
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Wolf Hustle
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The Light We Carry
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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Beautiful Country
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