Homelands and Waterways
The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Written by Adele Logan Alexander

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 18, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75871-6 (0-679-75871-2)

Homelands and Waterways traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In so doing, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both as slaves and in freedom. Adele Logan Alexander's account is the result of... Read more >

Black Holocaust For Beginners

Written by S.E. Anderson
Illustrated by Vanessa Holley

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: For Beginners
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-934389-03-4 (1-934389-03-X)

The Black Holocaust—from the start of the European slave trade to the Civil War—was a travesty that killed millions of people of African descent. It is also one of the most underreported major events in world history. Black Holocaust For Beginners—part documented chronicle, part engaging narrative—answers many questions about this tragic... Read more >

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 4, 1991
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73404-8 (0-679-73404-X)

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an... Read more >

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
Written by Maya Angelou

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7485-0 (0-8129-7485-9)

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and... Read more >

Best Intentions
The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
Written by Robert Sam Anson

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1988
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75707-0 (0-394-75707-6)

Anson explores how Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation from Phillips Exeter Academy by a young white plainclothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.

"Disquieting...often poignant" (Time), an "engrossing" (Newsweek) exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry... Read more >

Grace
Quotes & Passages for Heart, Mind, and Soul
Written by B.C. Aronson

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Reference
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42607-0 (0-375-42607-8)

This treasury of quotes and passages on leading a centered, purposeful, and spiritual life offers the advice and observations of leaders from all walks of life. Included are Ghandi, Lao-Tzu, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and hundreds of other unique and inspiring voices on subjects like compassion, kindness... Read more >

Days of Grace

Written by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad

Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-38681-6 (0-345-38681-7)

Days of Grace is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, and person with AIDS. Read more >

God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man
A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
Written by Cornelia Walker Baily and Christena Bledsoe

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 17, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49377-2 (0-385-49377-0)

Cornelia Walker Bailey models herself after the African griot, the tribal storytellers who keep the history of their people. Bailey’s people are the Geechee, whose cultural identity has been largely preserved due to the relative isolation of Sapelo, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. In this rich account, Bailey... Read more >

No Name in the Street

Written by James Baldwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27592-9 (0-307-27592-2)

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders... Read more >

Vintage Baldwin

Written by James Baldwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3394-2 (1-4000-3394-2)

“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review

James Baldwin’s ability to create lasting literature that continues to challenge us is made abundantly clear in the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the essays “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” from The Fire... Read more >

Slaves in the Family

Written by Edward Ball

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43105-9 (0-345-43105-7)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Winner of The Southern Book Award for Best Nonfiction

Slaves in the Family is the story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for descendants of the people his ancestors kept as slaves.

In 1698... Read more >

Beloved Harlem
A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
Written by William H. Banks, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Harlem Moon
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1478-9 (0-7679-1478-3)

A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., award-winning writer and Executive Director of the esteemed Harlem Writers Guild, combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some... Read more >

Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Written by Jonetta Rose Barras

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 29, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43483-8 (0-345-43483-8)

Now In Paperback.

What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the... Read more >

Legacy
Treasures of Black History
Edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna Wells
Contribution by Moorland Spingarn Research Center

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0006-9 (1-4262-0006-4)

From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished John Hope Franklin to the bibliography and extensive index that complete it, Legacy represents a major new contribution to African-American history. The Black experience and its impact on our nation's culture and character come alive in twelve chapters that sweep from ancient Africa... Read more >

Remember Me to Harlem
The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Written by Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Edited by Emily Bernard

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72707-8 (0-375-72707-8)

The Harlem Renaissance comes to vivid life in the spirited, 40-year-long correspondence between the black novelist and poet Langston Hughes and the music and dance critic Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer and photographer.

Hughes was twenty-two and Van Vechten forty-four when they began a friendship that would last... Read more >

The Ties That Bind
A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption
Written by Bertice Berry

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2414-6 (0-7679-2414-2)

When novelist Bertice Berry set out to write a history of her family, she initially believed she’d uncover a story of slavery and black pain, but the deeper she dug, the more surprises she found. There was heartache, yes, but also something unexpected: hope. Peeling away the layers, Berry came to... Read more >

My Face Is Black Is True
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27705-3 (0-307-27705-4)

“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man.”
~Callie House (1899)

In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861–1928), ex-slave, widowed... Read more >

With Billie
A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
Written by Julia Blackburn

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70580-9 (0-375-70580-5)

From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her... Read more >

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
The Story of Black Hollywood
Written by Donald Bogle

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45419-5 (0-345-45419-7)

In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.

Through interviews... Read more >

Autobiography of a People
Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Written by Herb Boyd

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 26, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49279-9 (0-385-49279-0)

Celebrating the spirituality, courage, and intellectual achievements of African Americans, Autobiography of a People is the first anthology to effectively trace the history of the African American experience—from the Middle Passage to Emancipation, from the Civil War to Vietnam, from the Little Rock Nine to the Million Man March—by telling the... Read more >

Brotherman

Written by Herb Boyd and Robert Allen

Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-38317-4 (0-345-38317-6)

Winner of the American Book Award

Best Non-Fiction Award 1995—Black Caucus—ALA

The purpose of this extraordinary anthology is made abundantly clear by the editors' stated intentions: "to create a living mosaic of essays and stories in which Black men can view themselves, and be viewed without distortion." Brotherman contains more than one hundred... Read more >

One More River to Cross
Black & Gay in America
Written by Keith Boykin

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 29, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47983-7 (0-385-47983-2)

One More River to Cross etches an insightful and provocative portrait of a largely invisible, often denied presence in American life-black gays and lesbians. Against the historical backdrop of civil rights and the black experience in America, Boykin interviews Baptist ministers, gay political leaders, and other blacks, gays, and lesbians on... Read more >

Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?
The Disappearance of Black Americans from U.S. Universities
Written by Cecil Brown

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-573-7 (1-55643-573-8)

Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head-on, paying special attention to the situation at UC Berkeley and the University of California system generally. Brown contends that educators have ignored the importance of... Read more >

A Taste of Power
A Black Woman's Story
Written by Elaine Brown

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 1993
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-47107-7 (0-385-47107-6)

This is Elaine Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther hierarchy. More than a recollection of the pain of sexism and the struggle against racism, it is a turbulent story of self-discovery and a black woman's battle to define herself. Includes photographs. Read more >

American Patriots
The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
Written by Gail Lumet Buckley
Foreword by David Halberstam

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-76009-9 (0-375-76009-1)

A dramatic and moving tribute to the military’s unsung heroes, American Patriots tells the story of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield, even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front. Through hundreds of original interviews with veterans of every... Read more >