Nonfiction - Black Reads
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive ...
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The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?“Utterly addictive . ...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy ...
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How To Become The Conqueror: An African American Revelation
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Taking a profound look at the African American experience and the far-reaching impacts of colonization and Western Civilization, this intimate rela...
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In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical site...
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows th...
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African Europeans: An Untold History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for ...
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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga ...
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Longlisted for the Reading the West Book AwardsNAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Non-FictionWith journalistic skill, hear...
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Finding Soul from Silicon Valley to Africa: A Travel Memoir and Personal Journey Through Twenty Countries in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An inspiring story about a rather unsuccessful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who traveled to 19 countries in Africa and learned deeply about empathy,...
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Shaped by Hate, Exclusion and Racism: How to Navigate and Rise in a Hostile Environment
PaperbackOriginal price $26.49 - Original price $26.49Original price $26.49$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This book tells a story of Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe whose journey started at his birth in Rwanda. In his life, he has experienced so many acts of exc...
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Black Women Need Love Too: A Book About Relationships, Self-Love and Community
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Stay Awake. Be Aware. Be Informed. Take Action"Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you." -Unknown Black women are lou...
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The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example ...
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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cu...
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To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might--together--come to...
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Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Can you imagine a future that includes your enemies? If not, what happens next? From one of the most courageous and visionary leaders of our time ...
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The Black Agenda
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been a...
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Volume 6
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A powerful -- and personal -- account of the movement and its players."--The Washington Post "This perceptive resource on radical black liberation...
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Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Essence Magazine 2023 Must Read Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achiev...
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Black Reads "Dear white friends, country persons: Welcome. Pull up a chair. Consider this book an invitation to the table." That tabl...
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The Trayvon Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to i...
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist Shows how government created "ghettos" and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residenti...
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