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Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In his books I Can't Date Jesus and I Don't Want to Die Poor, Michael Arceneaux established himself as one of the most beloved and entertaining writers of his generation, touching upon such hot-button topics as race, class, sexuality, labor, debt, and, of course, paying homage to the power and wisdom of Beyoncé. In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled—and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslavedmen and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence...
24) The unsettled
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival."--
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud funny essays about the lifelong search for community and returning home. After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas is ready to live his best life. Or, if not, at least his best-ish life. Now, in this collection...
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra Lane's debut memoir WE ARE BRIDGES follows her late entry into pregnancy and motherhood. As she prepares to give birth, she traces the history of her Black American family in the early twentieth-century rural South, including the lynching of her great-grandfather, Burt Bridges, and the pregnancy of her great-grandmother, Mary. With almost no physical record of her ancestors, Cassandra crafts a narrative of familial love and loss to pass...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The trials of Muhammad Ali investigates its extraordinary and often complex subject's life outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, to his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War in the name of protesting racial inequality, to his global humanitarian work, Muhammad Ali remains an inspiring and controversial figure.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For their romantic getaway to New York City, Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything--the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the luxury row house where they stayed. But on the final morning, when Breanna came downstairs, she found a dead white woman in the foyer, and Ty was gone. The woman is Janelle Beckett, a missing person with a social media following, #Justice4Janelle. Breanna's only hope for staying out of jail is her ex-best...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, this classic collection of heritage recipes and anecdotes features more than two hundred mouthwatering African American dishes with pictorial accounts, personal vignettes, and poetry. This ppdated new edition includes 19 previously unpublished profiles and an author note.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school. Brown tells the stories of these doctors from the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream." -Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with...
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Using archival documents, oral histories, and first-person memoir, WE WERE THERE is a history of the Third World Women's Alliance, a revolutionary, intersectional, socialist feminist organization that centered women of color and redefined second wave feminism in the 1970s"--
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this anthology from the bestselling Little People, Big Dreams series, you'll read 40 stories about some of the most amazing people from American history. Discover their incredible lives, their hope and fears, their struggles and triumphs, and the dreams that made each person great. Every story is accompanied by a timeline featuring inspirational moments, important facts, and fascinating photographs." -- Back cover.
39) Imara's tiara
Author
Publisher
Pygmy Girafe Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Imara's Tiara was written with the intent to feature a minority girl in the roll of a budding scientist/zoologist. Minority women are greatly under-represented in the field of zoology and as zookeepers in particular. Naomi is learning fast that it isn't an easy job, but one that she can accomplish if she tries hard enough. A science-based book that introduces zoology and how to be a zoologist to children. While Naomi is learning all the facts about...
40) Ella: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up, the "ungovernable" adolescent is incarcerated in the New York Training School for Girls in upstate New York--a wicked prison infamous for its harsh treatment of inmates, especially Black ones. Determined to be free, Ella escapes and makes her way back...