99 Books by 1517 Media

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The Measure of a Man (paperback)
Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America
American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
I Wish My Dad: The Power of Vulnerable Conversations Between Fathers and Sons
Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You
Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way Toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace
Brown Girls Rule
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation
United Stated of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Lullaby for the King
Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance (Prisms)
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption
No One Left Alone: A Story of How Community Helps Us Heal
Bell Hooks’ Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World
Bitty Brown Babe
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
Minding the Wealth Gap: Our Playbook to Close It Together
Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life
The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier
Flipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community
Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
Youth Change Agent: Empower a Young Person to Make the Transition to a Better Life
Worth It: Overcome Your Fears and Embrace the Life You Were Made for
We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men
Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown
Veracity and Verse: A Preacher’s Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth
Refiner’s Fire
Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism
Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
Dear Star Baby
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way
In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being: Second Edition
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (2nd Edition)
I Love My People A Child’s Celebration of Black Culture
The Art of Good Deeds
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People
Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People
The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing
The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
The Just Kitchen: Invitations to Sustainability, Cooking, Connection and Celebration
Sarah Rising
Ain’t I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought
What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman
Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color
Batman is Jesus
If My Hair Had a Voice
Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith
Brown Boys Rule
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
In My Grandmother’s House (paperback): Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit
Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition
Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
The Rise of Rage: Harnessing the Most Misunderstood Emotion
Strength to Love
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
Trauma and Race: A Path to Wellbeing
Witnessing and Testifying
My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge
Looking for Happy
Open: Unorthodox Thoughts on God and Community
The Love Habit: Daily Self-Care Practices for a Happier Life and Healthier Relationships
God’s Holy Darkness
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom
The Green Funeral: Honoring the Environment While Beautifying Funeral Practices
To Make the Wounded Whole
Battered Love
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology
Digital Coup: The Conspiracy to Thwart Global Democracy
Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition
Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives (Facets)
I Love My People
Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church
Bipolar Faith (paperback): A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith