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A Black Women’s History of the United States

ISBN13: 9780807033555 *NEW* A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are–and have always been–instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability…
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Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9781556520747 *NEW* On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a…
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Between the World and Me

ISBN13: 9780812993547 *NEW* Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Because the nation needs it now. A bold investigation into America’s racial history and its contemporary echoes from “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (New York Observer), told through the author’s own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of…
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Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State

ISBN13: 9780593543795 *NEW* The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States. In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the audacious idea to create a state within the Union governed by…
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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It

ISBN13: 9781250869715 *NEW* From the creator of “a unified field theory of racism” (NPR’s Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap Historically, Black Americans’ quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in…
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780679743132 *NEW* An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published. A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would…
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Black Skin, White Masks

ISBN13: 9780802143006 *NEW* Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon’s, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence…
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Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter

ISBN13: 9780374389956 *NEW* An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights. According to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was “a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” According to Hank Aaron, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power…
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9781250322159 *NEW* Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on…
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Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Blood Type Diet® Solution (Revised and Updated)

ISBN13: 9780399584169 *NEW* Eat Right 4 Your Type, the global wellness phenomenon that introduced the Blood Type Diet, now revised and updated with cutting-edge research for a new generation. Different diets work for different people. Thanks to Dr. D’Adamo’s groundbreaking research, we now know that this is because of key differences in body chemistry determined…
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Hip-Hop is History

ISBN13: 9780374614072 *NEW* This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia,…
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I Have A Dream

ISBN13: 9780063236790 *NEW* Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, laid out to follow the cadence of his oration—part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On August 28, 1963,…
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Jay-Z: Made in America

ISBN13: 9781250230966 *NEW* NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BESTSELLER “Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. … Using extensive passages from Jay-Z’s lyrics, ‘Made in America’ examines the rapper’s role as a poet, an aesthete, an advocate for racial justice and a business, man, but devotes much…
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans… (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780767915472 *NEW* Now in paperback, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment, which Kirkus Reviews calls “sweeping and powerful” in a starred review. Harriet A. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN…
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Nigger: An Autobiography (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780593086148 *NEW* Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir–now in trade paperback for the first time. “Powerful and ugly and beautiful…a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it.”–The New York Times Forty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly…
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Nothing Personal

ISBN13: 9780807006429 *NEW* James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin’s deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives…
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Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780062375100 *NEW* Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people. TIME’s 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 Book Riot’s 50 of the Best Books to Read This Fall As seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in Open Season: Whether with a bullet or a…
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780143105329 *NEW* The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America’s Black Panther Party. From Newton’s impoverished childhood on the…
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780807000694 *NEW* MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during,…
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

ISBN13: 9780593307359 *NEW* The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace…
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9780345350688 *NEW* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The “extraordinary” (The New York Times) autobiography of the legendary civil rights leader once called the most dangerous man in America—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this nation’s history In the searing pages of this…
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

ISBN13: 9781250162502 *USED* A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to…
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (Paperback)

ISBN13: 9781250210869 *NEW* A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to…
