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The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker by Alice Walker
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism by Keith Gilyard
The Gods of the Bacteria: The World Before Darwin By Billy Z. Earley
America I AM: A Journal Edited by Clarence Reynolds
No Surrender by Ai
Known to Evil (2nd Leonid McGill Mystery) by Walter Mosley
Hair Power - Skin Revolution: A Collection of Poems and Personal Essays by Black and Mixed-Race Women
Goony Goo-Goo and Ga-Ga Too! by Kia Morgan Smith
The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America by Charles Ogletree
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir by Helena Andrews
Three Days Before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison
Powder Necklace: A Novel by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Smartt Bell
Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne by Carole C. Marks
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials by Walter L. Gordon, III
Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
Poetic Perceptions by D Phil
Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelly
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film by Mia Mask
Jesus Boy by Preston L. Allen
In The Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips
Unzipped: An Urban Erotic Tale by Noire
One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyardes
Going Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair
SistahFaith: Real Stories of Pain, Truth and Triumph
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Common - The “Just Wright” Interview
Roland Martin - Roland Reflects on Obama’s Historic Run for the White House
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Nate Parker - Is Nate the Next Denzel?
Zane - The “Sex Chronicles” Interview
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Soul Train DVD - "The Hippest Trip in America On DVD for the Very First Time!"
Biracial, Not Black, Damn It! - Groundbreaking Documentary Explores Sensitive Subject of Biraciality
Eat, Pray, Love - Divorcee Embarks on Spiritual Sojourn in Pat Adaptation of Best-Selling Memoir
The Lottery - DVD Chronicles Competition for Admission to Harlem Charter School
We Need to Talk - Sisters Make Most of Opportunity to Reflect on Relationships
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - Bio-Pic Recounts Brash Artist’s Meteoric Rise and Untimely Demise
Why We Laugh - Reverential Documentary Pays Homage to Black Pioneers of Comedy
To Live & Die in Amerikkka - Shocking Documentary Bemoans Skyrocketing Homicide Rate in Baton Rouge
Brooklyn's Finest - Flawed NYPD Officers Featured as “Brooklyn’s Finest”
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