The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >

Sweet Thunder
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Written by Wil Haygood

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4497-9 (1-4000-4497-9)

From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.

Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >

The Breakthrough
Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Written by Gwen Ifill

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2890-8 (0-7679-2890-3)

In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.

Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil... Read more >

A Mighty Long Way
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51100-3 (0-345-51100-X)

"Carlotta Walls LaNier's A Mighty Long Way is a riveting account of nine brave high school students and their families in a quest for quality desegregated public education. What happened in Little Rock in 1957 resulted in America's greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Carlotta's account of events inside and... Read more >

Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)

Written by Sapphire

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47484-1 (0-307-47484-4)

Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16-years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.

"Affecting and impassioned. . ... Read more >

Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7038-8 (0-8129-7038-1)

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more... Read more >