BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President's Black Family
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A Roots for a new generation, rich in storytelling and steeped in history.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A compelling saga that gives a voice ...
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Black Landscapes Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated ...
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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator an...
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A classic tale of adventure and terror in the African jungle. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781592281879 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Rowman &...
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyIn this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slat...
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human—both ...
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely bo...
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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator an...
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Foundational Black American Race Baiter: My Journey Into Understanding Systematic Racism
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Racism is the most powerful system on the planet, yet it is often perceived as the most taboo subject to discuss. In this book, Foundational Bla...
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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the acclaimed author of Last Train to Memphis, this is the definitive biography of Sam Cooke, one of most influential singers and songwriter...
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s a...
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Life Is So Good
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /One man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98 “Things will be all right. People need to he...
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a ...
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American ...
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park super...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa...
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history. Robert Smalls' astounding heroism during the Civil War helped convince Lincoln and the coun...
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Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Ella Josephine Baker was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the civil rights move...
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A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard
PaperbackOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among ...
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United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"This lyrical testament to life as 'a blind date with mercy' will challenge and inspire."—Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] In 1991, when he wa...
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Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his ris...
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Barbara Jordan: American Hero
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from t...
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note...
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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /REGIONAL BESTSELLER Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The movin...
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