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Butter by Gayl Jones
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Sunshine on the Crooked Road
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This Leaves Me Okay
A Fool Indeed
Minding the Wealth Gap
No One Left Alone
The Dow Twins’ Legacy
A Gardin Wedding
My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift
The Wounds Are the Witness
Dearly Beloved
Justice for Marcus Garvey
Saxophone Colossus
The Art of Good Deeds
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Harlem Honey
At the Edge of a Leaf
Brown Boys Rule
Freedom at Dawn
My Hair Can
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Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
Digital Coup: The Conspiracy to Thwart Global Democracy
Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave
Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Mother
My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss
The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation
God Ain’t Blind
God Ain’t Blind
by Mary Monroe
A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Them That Are Called: An Epic
Sunshine on the Crooked Road
Sunshine on the Crooked Road
by Ndirangu Githaiga
The Wanderers
The Wanderers
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel
This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother
Veracity and Verse: A Preacher’s Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth
Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery
No One Left Alone: A Story of How Community Helps Us Heal
Minding the Wealth Gap: Our Playbook to Close It Together
Harlem Honey: The Adventures of a Curious Kid