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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Roll Deep: Poems
by Major Jackson

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
by Karl Jacoby

Collected Poems: 1974–2004
by Rita Dove

The Illegal: A Novel
by Lawrence Hill

Saint Monkey: A Novel
by Jacinda Townsend

The Book Of Negroes: A Novel (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Movie Tie-In Editions)
by Lawrence Hill

The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
by William P. Jones

The Cineaste: Poems
by A. Van Jordan

The Collected Poems of Ai
by Ai Ogawa

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop
by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen

Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Holding Company: Poems
by Major Jackson

The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions)
by Charles W. Chesnutt

The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll
by Preston Lauterbach

Oil on Water: A Novel
by Helon Habila

The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race And Civility In Everyday Life
by Elijah Anderson

No Surrender: Poems
by Ai Ogawa

Sonata Mulattica: Poems
by Rita Dove

The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
by Fawn M. Brodie

The History Of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter

Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel
by Maaza Mengiste

Michelle Obama: The First Lady In Photographs
by Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard

The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed

More Than Just Race: Being Black And Poor In The Inner City (Issues Of Our Time)
by William Julius Wilson

Quantum Lyrics: Poems
by A. Van Jordan

Scottsboro: A Novel
by Ellen Feldman

God’s Crucible: Islam And The Making Of Europe, 570-1215
by David Levering Lewis

Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
by Lawrence Hill

Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Hoops: Poems
by Major Jackson

An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
by Heidi Ardizzone

Measuring Time: A Novel
by Helon Habila

Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It
by Spike Lee

The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging
by Kym Ragusa

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time Series)
by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Macnolia: Poems
by A. Van Jordan

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years Of Cosmic Evolution
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith

Dread: Poems
by Ai Ogawa

American Smooth: Poems
by Rita Dove

Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
by Alexis De Veaux

Waiting for An Angel: A Novel
by Helon Habila

Death And The King’s Horseman: A Play
by Wole Soyinka

Police Brutality: An Anthology
by Jill Nelson

Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City
by Elijah Anderson

Vice: New and Selected Poems
by Ai Ogawa

On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
by Rita Dove

Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde
by Audre Lorde

The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
by Toi Derricotte

Yesterday Will Make You Cry [a Novel]
by Chester Himes

Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor
by Daryl Cumber Dance

S. R. O. (Old School Books Series)
by Robert Deane Pharr

Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
by Townsend Davis

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
by Walter Mosley

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter

Still I Rise: A Cartoon History Of African Americans
by Roland Owen Laird, Taneshia Nash Laird and Elihu Bey

The School on 103rd Street: A Novel (Old School Books)
by Roland S. Jefferson

Black in America
by Eli Reed

The Music of Black Americans: A History (Third Edition)
by Eileen Southern

Giveadamn Brown: A Novel (Old School Books)
by Robert Deane Pharr

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Edition Vol. 1
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith

Coal
by Audre Lorde

The Angry Ones
by John A. Williams

Mother Love: Poems
by Rita Dove

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems
by Willie Perdomo

The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
by Audre Lorde

RL’s Dream
by Walter Mosley

Divine Days
by Leon Forrest

Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women
by Patricia Bell-Scott

Greed
by Ai Ogawa

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992
by Audre Lorde

Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
by Audre Lorde

The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
by Nell Irvin Painter

Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
by Audre Lorde

Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
by Nell Irvin Painter

The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology
by Ishmael Reed

Grace Notes: Poems
by Rita Dove

Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
by Nell Irvin Painter

Beirut: City of Regrets
by Eli Reed

You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks
by Sara Brooks

Readings in Black American Music (Second Edition)
by Eileen Southern

FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr: From “Solo” to Memphis
by David J. Garrow