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Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie '12 Years a Slave' Is Based) (Illustrated)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen....
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Gifting resilience: A pandemic study of Black female resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How does fear - deep, ongoing, systemic fear - impact on Black lives?Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD dra...
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Nigger, Please.
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this sensational and provocative book, are answers to the questions that non-Blacks have pondered for years. African-Americans will find new ans...
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The Forest People: Africa's Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $13.98 - Original price $13.98Original price $13.98$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the 1950s, anthropologist Colin Turnbull lived among the pygmies of the Congo river for three years - this is his account of life among the trib...
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Diverse Achievers: A guide for parents and teachers on using children's literature to promote self-esteem and an understanding that anyon
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Achievement is color blindAll children need role models, but children of color often don't see enough examples of inspirational people who look lik...
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Resisting Jim Crow: The Autobiography of Dr. John A. McFall
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /John McFall was born in Charleston, S.C. in 1878-the year after the disputed South Carolina gubernatorial election that marked the end of Reconstru...
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Up From Religion: A Poetic Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Up From Religion is the debut collection of poetry by author and blogger, Mo'Reese Madu. In the searing pages of this revolutionary memoir, Madu ex...
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The 48 Laws of Black Empowerment
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The 48 Laws of Power was written by Robert Greene and first published in 1998. It is often praised as one of the best books to read if you want to ...
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had...
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to what White People Said They Were
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had...
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Minnesota's Black Community in the 21st Century
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While African Americans comprise just five percent of the total population of Minnesota today, the state boasts many successful, creative, and infl...
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Your Black Friend Has Something to Say: A Memoir in Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Your Black Friend Has Something To Say is a powerful debut and an intimate examination of race and identity. For thirty years Melva Graham has live...
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Black Men Who Have Made A Difference
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /These brave and resilient modern men such as George Floyd, Tyler Perry, President Barack Obama, Steve Harvey, Mahammad Ali, standing on the shoulde...
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Black Men Who Have Made A Difference
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /These brave and resilient modern men such as George Floyd, Tyler Perry, President Barack Obama, Steve Harvey, Mahammad Ali, standing on the shoulde...
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Black Religiosity: A Biblical and Historical Perspective
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Even though the practice of religion was outlawed for slaves beginning in the early 1600s, they often met in secret to worship; nothing could erase...
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Twelve Years a Slave
PaperbackOriginal price $7.77 - Original price $7.77Original price $7.77$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Unabridged value reproduction of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, including the six original images. He was born free, kidnapped into slave...
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Naturally Curly: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The complexities of a racially divided culture are too numerous to count, and with one glance around the globe, it is easy to see why no one is imm...
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Silver Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION." --Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping f...
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Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In this provocative book, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the most outspoken critic of the civil-rights establishment in America today, lays bare its corr...
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Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York 1890-1930
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an a...
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700 Notable Persons of African Ancestry 1400 Bc to Present Day: An Eye-Opener of 3,400 Years of World Black History
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This book contains little-known yet factual information about famous and not-so-famous persons of African descent that you may not have learned abo...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Illustrated Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglas...
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99Original price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was kn...
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African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia: Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century A...
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