Nonfiction - Black Reads
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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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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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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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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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Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print! Now a major motion picture. Gritty with pain, betra...
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Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the pa...
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Sink: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A wrenching, redemptive, and “brilliant coming-of-age story" (New York Times) about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glor...
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Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] outstanding debut."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday M...
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Get Your Knee Off Our Necks: Essays On Race In America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Isaac Madison has been a lifelong activist who has worked on a wide variety of issues affecting diverse low and moderate-income populations. The au...
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Mini Saga in South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hilary's desire to explore South Africa and experience African culture, while helping to improve the lives of children, was inspired at school in E...
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Strength Of My Ancestors Within Me: The Power of Positive Thinking: How to Overcame Some of Life Biggest Challenges
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /After surviving an abusive relationship, raising seven children, and wrestling with self-doubt and fear, Vivene Brown brings wisdom and insight to ...
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You Came With the Birds - Bringing You, My Child, Into This World of Many Cultures.
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /You Came With the BirdsBringing You, My Child, Into This World of Many Cultures.When birds begin to knock at their window, Yana and Nyaniso know th...
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Wild Spirit: Freedom, Love, and Adventure in Africa on a Motorcycle
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the author of Desert Snow comes another brilliantly written, page-turning adventure, told with characteristic honesty, modesty and wit.Join He...
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Ninety-Eight Years, Eleven Months, Nineteen Days: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS is a memoir celebrating a life of legacy, love and strong family values.Step into the heartwarming...
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Ninety-Eight Years, Eleven Months, Nineteen Days: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS is a memoir celebrating a life of legacy, love and strong family values.Step into the heartwarming...
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From Preaching to Meddling: A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement
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 a fascinating memoir, retired Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter shares his journey from the days of the Great Depression in Mobile, Alabama, ac...
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Leaving a Charmed Life: A True Story of Choosing Authentic Happiness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What good is leaving generational wealth when you and your loved ones are stuck in generational traumas?Kadian, nicknamed Charm, begins her life en...
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The Light of My Reflection
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This book is a series of intriguing short stories, taking place in the South, with each story peeling back layers of trauma from the author's child...
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MLK Jr.'s Detroit Dream Memoir of a Civil Rights Foot Solider
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /MLK Jr.'s Detroit Dream: Memoir of a Civil Rights Foot Soldier is an autobiography of an African American black girl who was indoctrinated into the...
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Deep North: Stories of Somali Resettlement in Vermont
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /What is it like to leave your home, friends and family and start a new life in a foreign country? How does one survive war in Africa and make a new...
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Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor, Tom Colbert, former chief of justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, shares his extraordinary ...
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Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor, Tom Colbert, former chief of justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, shares his extraordinary ...
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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the civil rights movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers' rights th...
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