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Black History For Beginners
Written by Denise Dennis
Illustrated by Susan Willmarth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez’s crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito…that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him….that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black people were with them too?
Any misunderstandings between blacks and... Read more >
Written by Denise Dennis
Illustrated by Susan Willmarth
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez’s crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito…that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him….that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black people were with them too?
Any misunderstandings between blacks and... Read more >
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Black Holocaust For Beginners
Written by S.E. Anderson
Illustrated by Vanessa Holley
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust–from the start of the European slave trade (c.1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty... Read more >
Written by S.E. Anderson
Illustrated by Vanessa Holley
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust–from the start of the European slave trade (c.1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty... Read more >
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Black Women For Beginners
Written by S. Pearl Sharp
Illustrated by Beverly Hawkins Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents and in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She travels with forces greater than herself. Her presence is everywhere.Black Women For Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from antiquity to the... Read more >
Written by S. Pearl Sharp
Illustrated by Beverly Hawkins Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents and in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She travels with forces greater than herself. Her presence is everywhere.Black Women For Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from antiquity to the... Read more >
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Malcolm X For Beginners
Written by Bernard Aquina Doctor
Illustrated by Bernard Aquina Doctor
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
In Malcolm X For Beginners, Bernard Doctor, reveals the teacher, the leader, and the revolutionary voice of change that Malcolm X was, and continues to be. Powerful narrative and graphics tell the story of Malcolm X’s life, his journey of self-discovery, his far-reaching ideas, his martyrdom and his impact on an... Read more >
Written by Bernard Aquina Doctor
Illustrated by Bernard Aquina Doctor
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99
In Malcolm X For Beginners, Bernard Doctor, reveals the teacher, the leader, and the revolutionary voice of change that Malcolm X was, and continues to be. Powerful narrative and graphics tell the story of Malcolm X’s life, his journey of self-discovery, his far-reaching ideas, his martyrdom and his impact on an... Read more >
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Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $16.99
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: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $16.99
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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Enough
The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Written by Juan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $13.95
Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to... Read more >
The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Written by Juan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $13.95
Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to... Read more >
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A Black Way of Seeing
From Liberty to Freedom
Written by Paul Robeson, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $14.95
In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what... Read more >
From Liberty to Freedom
Written by Paul Robeson, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $14.95
In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what... Read more >
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No Cause For Indictment
An Autopsy of Newark
Written by Ronald Porambo
Format: Trade Paperback, 425 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $18.95
The definitive account of the buildup, chaos, and aftermath of one of the worst urban riots in US history: the 1967 Newark riots. Being re-issued on the fortieth anniversary of the devastating event, No Cause For Indictment is a must-read to understand issues still facing urban America: poverty, political corruption, and... Read more >
An Autopsy of Newark
Written by Ronald Porambo
Format: Trade Paperback, 425 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $18.95
The definitive account of the buildup, chaos, and aftermath of one of the worst urban riots in US history: the 1967 Newark riots. Being re-issued on the fortieth anniversary of the devastating event, No Cause For Indictment is a must-read to understand issues still facing urban America: poverty, political corruption, and... Read more >
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Seconds of My Life
Text by Lauri Lyons
Photographed by Jamel Shabazz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $35.00
At age nine, Jamel Shabazz was introduced to photography by his father, who kept a signed copy of Leonard Freed’s Black in White America on the family’s coffee table. Intrigued by Freed’s provocative images of both Southern and urban life, Shabazz knew then it was his calling to document his community... Read more >
Text by Lauri Lyons
Photographed by Jamel Shabazz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Price: $35.00
At age nine, Jamel Shabazz was introduced to photography by his father, who kept a signed copy of Leonard Freed’s Black in White America on the family’s coffee table. Intrigued by Freed’s provocative images of both Southern and urban life, Shabazz knew then it was his calling to document his community... Read more >
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Harriet Tubman
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $26.00
Imagining a Life
Written by Beverly Lowry
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $26.00
“I am at peace with God and all mankind.”
—Harriet Tubman to Mary Talbert, on the occasion of their last visit, 1913
Now, from the award-winning novelist and biographer, an astonishing reimagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman—the “Moses of Her People.”
During her lifetime Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress...
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Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?
The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities
Written by Cecil Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $15.95
***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award
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... Read more >
The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities
Written by Cecil Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $15.95
***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award
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... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Fire This Time
Written by Randall Kenan
Format: Hardcover, 149 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $20.00
James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time was one of the essential books of the sixties, and one of the most galvanizing statements of the American civil rights movement.
Now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with a new generation of Americans confronting what Baldwin called our "racial nightmare," acclaimed writer Randall Kenan... Read more >
Written by Randall Kenan
Format: Hardcover, 149 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $20.00
James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time was one of the essential books of the sixties, and one of the most galvanizing statements of the American civil rights movement.
Now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with a new generation of Americans confronting what Baldwin called our "racial nightmare," acclaimed writer Randall Kenan... Read more >
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Summer Snow
Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
Written by Trudier Harris
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $16.00
Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. But Harris has always embraced the South, and in Summer Snow she explores her experience as a black Southerner and how it has shaped her into the writer and intellectual she has... Read more >
Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
Written by Trudier Harris
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $16.00
Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. But Harris has always embraced the South, and in Summer Snow she explores her experience as a black Southerner and how it has shaped her into the writer and intellectual she has... Read more >
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eBook.
Ghettonation
A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
Written by Cora Daniels
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $11.99
A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
Written by Cora Daniels
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $11.99
ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2: a quarter of a city in...
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Shades of Glory
The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
Written by Lawrence D. Hogan
Foreword by Jules Tygiel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
"Probably the most comprehensive history of black baseball available in one book…a must-read for any student of the game." —Cincinnati Enquirer
"Hogan sets the teams and leagues in the cultural and economic context of the black experience and the communities in which they played, broadening the book's appeal to anyone interested... Read more >
The Negro Leagues & the Story of African-American Baseball
Written by Lawrence D. Hogan
Foreword by Jules Tygiel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
"Probably the most comprehensive history of black baseball available in one book…a must-read for any student of the game." —Cincinnati Enquirer
"Hogan sets the teams and leagues in the cultural and economic context of the black experience and the communities in which they played, broadening the book's appeal to anyone interested... Read more >
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Finding Oprah's Roots
Finding Your Own
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Read by Dominic Hoffman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $15.00
“Before I have a big meeting or decision to make,” says Oprah Winfrey, “I go and I sit with the ancestors. Literally, I go and sit in my closet and I say their names. I just say their names so that when I walk into the space, I don’t walk alone.”
This... Read more >
Finding Your Own
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Read by Dominic Hoffman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $15.00
“Before I have a big meeting or decision to make,” says Oprah Winfrey, “I go and I sit with the ancestors. Literally, I go and sit in my closet and I say their names. I just say their names so that when I walk into the space, I don’t walk alone.”
This... Read more >
On the Courthouse Lawn
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Sherrilyn Ifill
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 15, 2007
Price: $14.95
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization... Read more >
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Sherrilyn Ifill
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 15, 2007
Price: $14.95
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization... Read more >
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Finding Oprah's Roots
Finding Your Own
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $19.95
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights... Read more >
Finding Your Own
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $19.95
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Finding Oprah's Roots
Finding Yours
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $11.99
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights... Read more >
Finding Yours
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $11.99
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $25.95
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story... Read more >
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $25.95
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story... Read more >
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Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >
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The First Emancipator
Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter
Written by Andrew Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.95
“[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter’s story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory.”
–The New York Times Book Review
In 1791, Robert Carter III, a pillar of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy, broke with his... Read more >
Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter
Written by Andrew Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.95
“[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter’s story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory.”
–The New York Times Book Review
In 1791, Robert Carter III, a pillar of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy, broke with his... Read more >
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Fletcher Street
Photographed by Martha Camarillo
Introduction by Kathie Dobie
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
Deep in the heart of Philadelphia, past row houses and vacant lots, run-down playgrounds and dilapidated schools, is a little place called Fletcher Street. It has everything one would expect to find down an alley in the ghetto, with one addition: horses. The men and boys of Fletcher Street have used... Read more >
Photographed by Martha Camarillo
Introduction by Kathie Dobie
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $39.95
Deep in the heart of Philadelphia, past row houses and vacant lots, run-down playgrounds and dilapidated schools, is a little place called Fletcher Street. It has everything one would expect to find down an alley in the ghetto, with one addition: horses. The men and boys of Fletcher Street have used... Read more >
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Legacy
Treasures of Black History
Edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna Wells
Contribution by Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $35.00
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 >
Treasures of Black History
Edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna Wells
Contribution by Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $35.00
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 >
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A Black Way of Seeing
From Liberty to Freedom
Written by Paul Robeson, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $23.95
In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what... Read more >
From Liberty to Freedom
Written by Paul Robeson, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $23.95
In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
