Nonfiction - Black Reads
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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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Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A non-fiction masterpiece."--Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one ...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions publis...
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Under the Mango Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $12.49 - Original price $12.49Original price $12.49$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This is the story of Bambay Sawaneh who at the age of 15 experienced the terror of rebels attacking his little village in Sierra Leone, West Africa...
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The Harlem Plug: The Richard 'Fritz' Simmons Story
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many trage...
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The Harlem Plug: The Richard 'Fritz' Simmons Story
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many trage...
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Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who ea...
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"The power of George Jackson's personal story remains painfully relevant to our nation today, with its persistent racism, its hellish prisons, it...
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Pimp: The Story of My Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” —Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix spec...
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Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification."--Atlanta-Journal Constitution "Kelley could have written a fine book about Charlotte's dru...
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Assata: An Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /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, ...
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Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /There are many forms of liberation—some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this stirring and tim...
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