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Dear Marcus
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Written by Jerry McGill
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.00
The idea to write to you was not an easy one.
The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.
Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry... Read more >
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Written by Jerry McGill
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.00
The idea to write to you was not an easy one.
The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.
Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry... Read more >
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Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago
“This ambitious book provides just as dignified and well intentioned a performance as the one she gave at those hearings.”
—Megan Buskey, The New York Times Book Review
Through the stories of remarkable African American...
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Showdown
JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins
Written by Thomas Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00
A classic NFL/civil rights story—the showdown between the Washington Redskins and the Kennedy White House
In Showdown, sports historian Thomas G. Smith captures a striking moment, one that held sweeping implications not only for one team’s racist policy but also for a sharply segregated city and for the nation as... Read more >
JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins
Written by Thomas Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00
A classic NFL/civil rights story—the showdown between the Washington Redskins and the Kennedy White House
In Showdown, sports historian Thomas G. Smith captures a striking moment, one that held sweeping implications not only for one team’s racist policy but also for a sharply segregated city and for the nation as... Read more >
Black Majority
Written by Peter Wood
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $12.99
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well... Read more >
Written by Peter Wood
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $12.99
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well... Read more >
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Dear Marcus
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Written by Jerry McGill
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $22.00
When Jerry McGill was growing up in the housing projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1980s, his future seemed bright: Though times were tough for a family led by a single mother, McGill was a charming, precocious teenager, already excelling as an athlete and a dancer. But... Read more >
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Written by Jerry McGill
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $22.00
When Jerry McGill was growing up in the housing projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1980s, his future seemed bright: Though times were tough for a family led by a single mother, McGill was a charming, precocious teenager, already excelling as an athlete and a dancer. But... Read more >
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Dear Marcus
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Written by Jerry McGill
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $9.99
The idea to write to you was not an easy one.
The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.
Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry... Read more >
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Written by Jerry McGill
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $9.99
The idea to write to you was not an easy one.
The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.
Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
Renowned for his insightful, common-sense critiques of racial politics, Randall Kennedy gives us a shrewd and penetrating analysis of the complex relationship between the first black president and his African-American constituency.
Kennedy tackles such hot-button issues as the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has a singular responsibility to African...
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Men We Cherish
Written by Brooke Stephens
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2012
Price: $14.99
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the news and the... Read more >
Written by Brooke Stephens
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2012
Price: $14.99
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the news and the... Read more >
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Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Hate Crime
The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
Written by Joyce King
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $9.99
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of... Read more >
The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
Written by Joyce King
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $9.99
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of... Read more >
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There Are No Children Here
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Written by Alex Kotlowitz
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $11.99
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Written by Alex Kotlowitz
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $11.99
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Life Upon These Shores
Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $50.00
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters—Life Upon These... Read more >
Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $50.00
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters—Life Upon These... Read more >
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A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $6.99
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling... Read more >
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $6.99
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling... Read more >
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The Trumpet of Conscience
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.00
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.00
In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Immediately released under the title Conscience for Change after King’s assassination, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience. Each oration speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues...
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MLK
A Celebration in Word and Image
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Bob Adelman
Introduction by Charles Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.00
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image is an unprecedented collection of black-and-white photographs combined with stirring quotations by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This treasured collection includes images by legendary photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bob Adelman, and Flip Schulke, and is an unparalleled photobiography that presents intimate... Read more >
A Celebration in Word and Image
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Bob Adelman
Introduction by Charles Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.00
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image is an unprecedented collection of black-and-white photographs combined with stirring quotations by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This treasured collection includes images by legendary photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bob Adelman, and Flip Schulke, and is an unparalleled photobiography that presents intimate... Read more >
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $14.99
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma"... Read more >
Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $14.99
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma"... Read more >
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At the Dark End of the Street
Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Written by Danielle L. McGuire
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
The truth of who Rosa Parks was and... Read more >
Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Written by Danielle L. McGuire
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
The truth of who Rosa Parks was and... Read more >
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Disintegration
The Splintering of Black America
Written by Eugene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from Disintegration
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with... Read more >
The Splintering of Black America
Written by Eugene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from Disintegration
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with... Read more >
Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago
At the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Anita Hill spoke out courageously about workplace sexual harassment. Now she turns to the topic of home. As our country reels from the subprime mortgage meltdown and...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Written by Anita Hill
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago
At the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Anita Hill spoke out courageously about workplace sexual harassment. Now she turns to the topic of home. As our country reels from the subprime mortgage meltdown and...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER
HEARTLAND AWARD... Read more >
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER
HEARTLAND AWARD... Read more >
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Daily Cornbread
365 Ingredients for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
Written by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $14.99
Heart & Soul founding editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows African American women how to soothe the soul, satisfy the mind, and revive the body 365 days a year.
Written in an affirming style that is prescriptive but never preachy, fun but not frivolous, Daily Cornbread is a day-by-day compendium of Oliver’s creative... Read more >
365 Ingredients for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
Written by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $14.99
Heart & Soul founding editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows African American women how to soothe the soul, satisfy the mind, and revive the body 365 days a year.
Written in an affirming style that is prescriptive but never preachy, fun but not frivolous, Daily Cornbread is a day-by-day compendium of Oliver’s creative... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Cross of Redemption
Uncollected Writings
Written by James Baldwin
Edited by Randall Kenan
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.00
Uncollected Writings
Written by James Baldwin
Edited by Randall Kenan
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.00
The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues...
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The Grace of Silence
A Family Memoir
Written by Michele Norris
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $15.95
A Family Memoir
Written by Michele Norris
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $15.95
A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered.
While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been...
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The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Written by Nicholas Lemann
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $14.99
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Written by Nicholas Lemann
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $14.99
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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