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Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Monumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America's first Black ...
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Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up a...
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Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we've inherited--from the creator...
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W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book...
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Never Stop: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Hands down one of the best explorations into the Black male psyche I've ever read." --Essence Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, th...
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The America Play and Other Works
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultura...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment—and how it has been engineere...
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Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for NonfictionBrave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode ...
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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A version for Young Adults is also available. Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist,...
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features...
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
HardcoverOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago wit...
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the late 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration embarked upon a project to interview 100 former American sla...
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories ...
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The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the proje...
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The Need for a Black Bible
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The third book in a 3-volume set, The Need for a Black Bible is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Myth o...
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The Names of All the Flowers: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir--poignant, painful, and gorgeous (Alicia Garza)--explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief...
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The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Invisible War attempts to redress a fundamental misconception lodged in the heart of American historiography: the notion that there was no si...
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The Ground on Which I Stand
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Fierce and passionate, The Ground on Which I Stand is August Wilson’s eloquent and personal call for African American artists to seize the power ...
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The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /*** A REVISED EDITION OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS CLASSIC ***COMMISSIONED BY THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS(1.4 MILLION MEMBERS WORLDWIDE) Although the Civil...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written b...
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its peop...
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Survey Graphic: Harlem Mecca of the New Negro
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The contributors to this edition include W.E.B Du Bois, Arthur Schomburg, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. Harlem Mecca i...
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Sex and Race, Volume 2: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands -- The Old World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Classic work of black study provides detailed historico-biographical surveys of black historyIn the Sex and Race series, first published in the 194...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Born on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass—born Frederick Bailey—doesn’t know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy,...
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