Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural iconIn the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two dec...
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Life in the Little Wooden House
HardcoverOriginal price $19.97 - Original price $19.97Original price $19.97$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Do you have unanswered questions about your life? Family secrets too painful to reveal? This memoir uncovers the unimaginable- secrets untold come ...
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Life in the Little Wooden House: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Do you have unanswered questions about your life? Family secrets too painful to reveal? This memoir uncovers the unimaginable- secrets untold come ...
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Modern Negro Art
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /2020 Reprint of 1943 Edition. Profusely illustrated with halftone plates. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Re...
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Modern Negro Art Hardcover
HardcoverOriginal price $33.95Original price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Porter's work analyzes the important developments and individuals in African American painting and sculpture from the pre-Civil War period to World...
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Modern Negro Art
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Porter's work analyzes the important developments and individuals in African American painting and sculpture from the pre-Civil War period to World...
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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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Gene Bilbrew Revealed: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With hundreds of rare and extraordinary images culled from his influential 24-year career, this volume illustrates the story of the first black car...
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Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistent...
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I Always Knew: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother Barbara Ch...
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Wilderness Dreaming: Memoir of a Wildlife Photographer
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Greg du Toit recounts his fascinating life having spent decades as an African Wildlife Photographer, including incredible once-in-a-lifetime experi...
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San Francisco Lithographer, Volume 14: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. W...
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Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
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 lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African American artist of his time—Primitive offers...
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /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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Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Thami Mnyele's life spanned the era of apartheid. He was born the same year the National Party won office and came of age in a time (the 1960s) a...
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