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Click for more detail about Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story by Willard Jenkins
Click for more detail about Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration by Spike Lee
Click for more detail about Just Keep Living: Conversations with Granny by Lisa M. Bennett
Click for more detail about Segregated Skies: David Harris’s Trailblazing Journey to Rise Above Racial Barriers by Michael H. Cottman
Click for more detail about Foundational Black American Race Baiter: My Journey Into Understanding Systematic Racism by Tariq Nasheed
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Click for more detail about Keep On Moving (paperback): My Journey in the Fourth Quarter by Ronald Ancrum
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Click for more detail about Run: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
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Click for more detail about The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity by Thomas Aiello
Click for more detail about Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Click for more detail about Mining Diamonds by Augustus G. Parker III
Click for more detail about The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing by Tracy Snipe with Sarah Collins Rudolph
Click for more detail about The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution by Susie Day,  W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway
Click for more detail about Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens by Desmond Meade
Click for more detail about Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice by Nkechi Taifa
Click for more detail about The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History by Karlos K. Hill
Click for more detail about Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells
Click for more detail about Walking in Footsteps of Promise by Kiran H. J. Dellimore
Click for more detail about Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
Click for more detail about Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
Click for more detail about Three Years in Mississippi by James Meredith
Click for more detail about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Click for more detail about Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
Click for more detail about Sleep Walking Out of Afghanistan: Walking It All Back by Harold Phifer
Click for more detail about Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Click for more detail about Frederick Douglass: A Biography by Booker T. Washington
Click for more detail about The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington
Click for more detail about Encyclopedia of Black Comics by Sheena C. Howard
Click for more detail about Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth by Don Tate
Click for more detail about Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper by Frances E. W. Harper
Click for more detail about My Life In The South by Jacob Stroyer
Click for more detail about An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones by Wendy Jones
Click for more detail about Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) by Yusef Komunyakaa
Click for more detail about When Minorities Lead in America: A Black Theologian’s Political Journey by Herman J. Fountain Jr.
Click for more detail about Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads by John Henrik Clarke
Click for more detail about What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Lerone Bennett
Click for more detail about Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna by Carrolyn Pichet
Click for more detail about The Magic Hour by Crystal Allen
Click for more detail about Say’s Law: An Historical Analysis (Princeton Legacy Library) by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs by Questlove and Ben Greenman
Click for more detail about History of the Negro Church by Carter G. Woodson
Click for more detail about Breaking Thru The Bars: Identical Twins, Identical Crime, Identical Time by Alisha L. Readus and Marisa L. Readus
Click for more detail about The Legacy of Eric Williams by Colin A. Palmer
Click for more detail about Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style by André Leon Talley
Click for more detail about Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire
Click for more detail about Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home by Eli Reed
Click for more detail about Jennifer’s Journal: The Life Of A Suburban Girl by Jennifer Cruté
Click for more detail about Garvey and Garveyism by Amy Jacques Garvey
Click for more detail about Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History by Janet Sims-Wood
Click for more detail about Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey by Adam Henig
Click for more detail about From Thug to Scholar: An Odyssey to Unmask My True Potential by James A. Williams
Click for more detail about The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai Ogawa
Click for more detail about Whitney: Tribute to an Icon by Pat Houston
Click for more detail about Nicki Minaj: The Woman Who Stole The World by Lynette Holloway
Click for more detail about Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World by Crystal McCrary
Click for more detail about Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History by Cheryl Finley, Laurence A. Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter
Click for more detail about John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher by Barbara Eleanor Adams
Click for more detail about The Photographs of Jack Delano: The Library of Congress by Esmeralda Santiago
Click for more detail about With the Kisses of His Mouth by Monique Roffey
Click for more detail about Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street by Lee Stringer
Click for more detail about Senior Stories  - Straight From the Heart by Yvonne Rose
Click for more detail about Into Africa: The Return by Yvonne Blackwood
Click for more detail about Legacy to Legend: Winners Make It Happen by Floyd L. Griffin Jr.
Click for more detail about Michelle Obama: The First Lady In Photographs by Deborah Willis and Emily Bernard
Click for more detail about To Whom It May Concern by Angela Jackson
Click for more detail about From Incarceration 2 Incorporation by J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse
Click for more detail about John Henrik Clarke And The Power Of Africana History: Africalogical Quest For Decolonization And Sovereignty by Ahati N. N. Toure
Click for more detail about Motherless Child - Stories from a Life by Sarah Gordon Weathersby
Click for more detail about The Manley Memoirs by Beverley Manley
Click for more detail about Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greatest Uncrowned Champion by Clay Moyle
Click for more detail about Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul by Orchester Benjamin
Click for more detail about Don’t Run Away Make A Way Queen by Mickey See-Asia
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Click for more detail about Remembering Margo: A Triumphant Life, A Tragic Death, And Life’s Greatest Deception by Donzella Michele Malone
Click for more detail about Ray Charles en Espanol (Spanish Edition) by Sharon Bell Mathis
Click for more detail about Inward Hunger: The Education Of A Prime Minister by Eric Williams and Colin Palmer
Click for more detail about Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof by Kola Boof
Click for more detail about YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life by Haki Madhubuti
Click for more detail about Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five by Nancy Morejón
Click for more detail about “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke
Click for more detail about Firefighter by Herman Williams
Click for more detail about Uncrowned Queens, Volume 3: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Click for more detail about You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent by Richard Bruce Nugent
Click for more detail about Vernon Can Read! A Memoir by Vernon E. Jordan
Click for more detail about Uncrowned Queens, Volume 1: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Click for more detail about Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Click for more detail about Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkle
Click for more detail about Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback)) by Laura Baskes Litwin and Luara Baskes Litwin
Click for more detail about Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women’s History by Janus Adams
Click for more detail about Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Click for more detail about Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America by Andrew Ward
Click for more detail about A Season On The Reservation: My Soujourn With The White Mountain Apaches by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Stephen Singular
Click for more detail about Meet It, Greet It and Defeat It by Anna Christian
Click for more detail about My Life in Search of Africa by John Henrik Clarke
Click for more detail about My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
Click for more detail about One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth by Iyanla Vanzant
Click for more detail about Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege by Gwendolyn M. Parker
Click for more detail about Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings by Solomon Plaatje
Click for more detail about Walter Dean Myers (Contemporary African Americans) by Diane Patrick
Click for more detail about World’s Great Men of Color by J. A. Rogers
Click for more detail about Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
Click for more detail about Conversations with Ernest Gaines (Literary Conversations) by Ernest Gaines
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 The Poet’s World by Rita Dove
Click for more detail about Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X by Michael Eric Dyson
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Click for more detail about Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines
Click for more detail about Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson
Click for more detail about Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911 by Melba Joyce Boyd
Click for more detail about The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews by Alex Haley
Click for more detail about If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor by John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams
Click for more detail about Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice by James Haskins
Click for more detail about Black Is the Color of My TV Tube by Gil Noble
Click for more detail about Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition by Joanne M. Braxton
Click for more detail about No Identity Crisis: A Father and Son’s Own Story of Working Together by Melvin Van Peebles and Mario Van Peebles
Click for more detail about Jim Brown Out of Bounds by Jim Brown
Click for more detail about The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
Click for more detail about The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Click for more detail about The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Joseph Moore
Click for more detail about Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday by Alexis De Veaux
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Click for more detail about You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks by Sara Brooks
Click for more detail about Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne by James Haskins
Click for more detail about American Hunger by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) by Eileen Southern
Click for more detail about The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson by Susan Robeson
Click for more detail about This Life by Sidney Poitier
Click for more detail about Movin’ Up, Pop Gordy Tells His Story by Berry Gordy
Click for more detail about Du Bois: Pictoral Biography by Shirley Graham Du Bois
Click for more detail about Andrew Young, Man With a Mission by James Haskins
Click for more detail about Women Pioneers of Science by Louis Haber
Click for more detail about Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America by Lillie Patterson
Click for more detail about Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
Click for more detail about Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart
Click for more detail about Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies) by Jane Goodsell and Haru Wells
Click for more detail about Jake Gaither, America’s most famous Black coach by George E. Curry
Click for more detail about Coretta Scott King (Americans All) by Lillie Patterson
Click for more detail about Up from Nigger by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
Click for more detail about All is well by Julius Lester
Click for more detail about Paul Robeson, All-American by Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Click for more detail about Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa by Shirley Graham Du Bois
Click for more detail about Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America) by Jesse Jackson
Click for more detail about The Heart Man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams by Louise Meriwether
Click for more detail about My Life of Absurdity by Chester Himes
Click for more detail about The Freedom Ship Of Robert Smalls by Louise Meriwether
Click for more detail about Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World, by Shirley Graham Du Bois
Click for more detail about Beyond All Pity (Modern Society) by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Click for more detail about We a BaddDDD People. by Sonia Sanchez
Click for more detail about Black Inventors of America  by McKinley Burt, Jr.
Click for more detail about Martin Luther King Jr.:  Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
Click for more detail about Manchild in the Promised Land  by Claude Brown
Click for more detail about Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Mentor Series) by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Click for more detail about Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta
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Click for more detail about Interpreters (Opera biographies) by Carl Van Vechten
Click for more detail about Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics by Anna Deavere Smith