Nonfiction - Black Reads
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely bo...
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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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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America In V...
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy Black resistance to white suprema...
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Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Ella Josephine Baker was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the civil rights move...
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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, S...
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Barbara Jordan: American Hero
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from t...
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in b...
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The first major biography of one of our most influential judges--an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman...
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Hidden Figures LP
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of Americ...
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The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, i...
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The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, i...
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Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Highlighting Bethune's global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Be...
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Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Highlighting Bethune's global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bet...
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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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Becoming Fearless: Finding Courage in the African Wilderness
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"The fires of transformation blaze in this superbly delightful portmanteau of a book. Brenda Smith undergoes a revolution in consciousness as she w...
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Becoming Fearless: Finding Courage in the African Wilderness
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"The fires of transformation blaze in this superbly delightful portmanteau of a book. Brenda Smith undergoes a revolution in consciousness as she w...
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Seat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in Us History and Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Contributions by Omar H. Ali, Simone R. Barrett, Tejai Beulah, Sandra Bolzenius, Carol Fowler, Lacey P. Hunter, Tiera C. Moore, Tedi A. Pascarella,...
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The Road to Tangible Hope: An Ethiopian Woman's Tale of Survival, Strength, and Inspiration
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The stories that I share in this book have always been a dark secret buried so deeply that even most of my friends and family had no idea what I ha...
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Picking in High Cotton: A Family's Remarkable Journey from Poverty to Prosperity
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /When Copply Robinson leaves the oppressive Jim Crow South in the 1940s, she finds herself working in the hot fields of Safford, Arizona, picking co...
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Daddy's House: A Daughter's Memoir of Setbacks, Triumphs & Rising Above Her Roots
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781961757271 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing Publication Date: 11-16-2023 Pages: 324 Product Dim...
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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of...
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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST * The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of ...
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Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful ch...
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