241 Collage of Books in the Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith
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Click for more detail about Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love
Click for more detail about Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford Fletcher
Click for more detail about Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court by Chris Paul and Michael Wilbon
Click for more detail about All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity by Terence Lester
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Click for more detail about Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing by Sean Nam
Click for more detail about Angela Davis (paperback): An Autobiography by Angela Davis
Click for more detail about Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable by Zain Asher
Click for more detail about My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style by La Verne Ford Wimberly
Click for more detail about Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love by Michelle Miller
Click for more detail about Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter by Therese Taylor-Stinson
Click for more detail about What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman by Lerita Coleman Brown
Click for more detail about Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today by Eboni K. Williams
Click for more detail about Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Brahm Revel
Click for more detail about Reclamation (paperback): Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
Click for more detail about Grocery Shopping with My Mother by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson by Misty Copeland
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Click for more detail about Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen by Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker
Click for more detail about In the Blink of an Eye: An Autobiography by Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf with Nick Chiles
Click for more detail about Black Women Will Save the World by April Ryan
Click for more detail about Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
Click for more detail about The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter
Click for more detail about From Enslavement to Belovedness: for the Dignity of my People by Adelaide L. Sanford
Click for more detail about America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir by Boyah J. Farah
Click for more detail about Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher
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Click for more detail about United Stated of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope by Lenny Duncan
Click for more detail about A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story by Raphael G. Warnock
Click for more detail about You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge by Jamie McGhee and Adam Hollowell
Click for more detail about His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
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Click for more detail about Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives by Oprah Winfrey (Foreword) and, Introduction by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Intro)
Click for more detail about Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith
Click for more detail about The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail by Kristen Green
Click for more detail about The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky
Click for more detail about Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Click for more detail about Blend In or Fade Out by Colnese M. Hendon
Click for more detail about The Many Lives of Andrew Young by Andrew Young and Ernie Suggs
Click for more detail about Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way by Khristi Lauren Adams
Click for more detail about Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One by Katrina M. Adams
Click for more detail about From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket: My Life in Football and Business by John Harris
Click for more detail about Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough by Candice Marie Benbow
Click for more detail about Letters to the Sons of Society by Shaka Senghor
Click for more detail about Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America by Al Sharpton
Click for more detail about Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s by Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelley
Click for more detail about Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George Nesbitt
Click for more detail about The Pursuit of Porsha: How My Journey to Happiness Can Help You Find Yours by Porsha Williams
Click for more detail about Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy by Gayle Jessup White
Click for more detail about The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home by Michael Tubbs
Click for more detail about Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt
Click for more detail about Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1 by Gabrielle David
Click for more detail about Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
Click for more detail about The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
Click for more detail about Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the White House by Malaika Adero
Click for more detail about Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay
Click for more detail about Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
Click for more detail about Keep On Moving: My Journey in the Fourth Quarter by Ronald Ancrum
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Click for more detail about Black Nerd Problems: Essays by William Evans and Omar Holmon
Click for more detail about You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union
Click for more detail about I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America by Tyler Merritt
Click for more detail about Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Click for more detail about Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmelo Anthony
Click for more detail about Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
Click for more detail about The Marshall Legacy in Black and White by Kathy Lynne Marshall
Click for more detail about Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics by Stephon Alexander
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Click for more detail about After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party by Noel Hankin
Click for more detail about Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem by Kevin McGruder
Click for more detail about Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays by Edwidge Danticat
Click for more detail about Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC by Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green
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Click for more detail about My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick, and Katherine Moore
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Click for more detail about Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe
Click for more detail about We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane
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Click for more detail about Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay by Shanna Greene Benjamin
Click for more detail about The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle by Rob Kenner
Click for more detail about Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad
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Click for more detail about Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph by Chad Sanders
Click for more detail about Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
Click for more detail about Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Click for more detail about The Three Mothers (Hardcover) by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Click for more detail about Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster
Click for more detail about The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker
Click for more detail about Mining Diamonds by Augustus G. Parker III
Click for more detail about Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics by Ken Quattro
Click for more detail about Hubert Harrison The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 by Jeffrey B. Perry
Click for more detail about Think Black: A Memoir by Clyde W. Ford
Click for more detail about Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt
Click for more detail about A Promised Land (Deluxe Signed Edition) by Barack Obama
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Click for more detail about How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
Click for more detail about The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Click for more detail about Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart
Click for more detail about Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads by Al Sharpton
Click for more detail about Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin
Click for more detail about Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Click for more detail about How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
Click for more detail about A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
Click for more detail about Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore
Click for more detail about Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri
Click for more detail about Panorama: The Missing Chapter: From the Memoir Views from the Cockpit by Ross Victory
Click for more detail about The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore
Click for more detail about Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells
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Click for more detail about Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
Click for more detail about The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about Black Boy by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever by Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth
Click for more detail about Golden Beauty Boss: The Story of Madame Sara Spencer Washington and the Apex Empire by Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Click for more detail about Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism by Wanda Smalls Lloyd
Click for more detail about Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 by Julian Bond
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Click for more detail about The Black Book (Anniversary) by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt, and Roger Furman
Click for more detail about Solitary by Albert Woodfox
Click for more detail about Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge
Click for more detail about Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-The-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American President by Lawrence P. Jackson
Click for more detail about Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
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Click for more detail about The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
Click for more detail about I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer by Hal Banfield
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Click for more detail about More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
Click for more detail about 400 Years of Witnessing by Molefi Kete Asante
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Click for more detail about What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
Click for more detail about I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy
Click for more detail about Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills
Click for more detail about Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated (Boxed Set) by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali by Randal Maurice Jelks
Click for more detail about The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom by David F. Walker
Click for more detail about Becoming by Michelle Obama
Click for more detail about Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Click for more detail about Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built (The Life & Legacy of Pioneering Publishing Magnate) by Margena A. Christian
Click for more detail about Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian by James H. Cone
Click for more detail about Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
Click for more detail about Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Click for more detail about The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin
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Click for more detail about Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
Click for more detail about Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
Click for more detail about The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement by Kevin Shird
Click for more detail about Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
Click for more detail about Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates by Todd Steven Burroughs
Click for more detail about The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Click for more detail about The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Click for more detail about A Look Back in Time: Memoir of a Military Kid in the Fifties Vol. 2 by Bernard N. Lee, Jr.
Click for more detail about Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances by Leland Melvin
Click for more detail about Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
Click for more detail about Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Click for more detail about I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film by James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
Click for more detail about Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by James Mcgrath Morris
Click for more detail about Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
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Click for more detail about We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Click for more detail about Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something in America by C. Nicole Mason
Click for more detail about Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black by Chris Tomlinson
Click for more detail about Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire by Shane White
Click for more detail about Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir by George Clinton with Ben Greenman
Click for more detail about Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Click for more detail about The Light Of The World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
Click for more detail about Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Click for more detail about His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964 by Herb Boyd
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Click for more detail about Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness by Rebecca Walker
Click for more detail about Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-From South Central to Hollywood by Ice–T and Douglas Century
Click for more detail about The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Click for more detail about Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston
Click for more detail about Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir by Cornel West
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Click for more detail about Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter by Sidney Poitier
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Click for more detail about Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
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Click for more detail about The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Click for more detail about Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd
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Click for more detail about Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines by Eddie B. Allen
Click for more detail about Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler by Agyei Tyehimba
Click for more detail about An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
Click for more detail about The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Click for more detail about The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
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Click for more detail about Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helfer
Click for more detail about Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston
Click for more detail about Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Click for more detail about Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
Click for more detail about Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
Click for more detail about Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due
Click for more detail about The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Growing Up X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kim McLarin
Click for more detail about Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand
Click for more detail about Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Click for more detail about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Click for more detail about Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
Click for more detail about Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks
Click for more detail about Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker
Click for more detail about The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America by Hugh Pearson
Click for more detail about Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Days of Grace: A Memoir by Arthur Ashe
Click for more detail about The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes
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Click for more detail about The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley) by Malcolm X
Click for more detail about His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography (Quality Paperbacks Series) by Ethel Waters and Charles Samuels
Click for more detail about I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou
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Click for more detail about The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
Click for more detail about Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about Long Way From Home by Claude McKay