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Click for more detail about Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange by Imani Perry
Click for more detail about Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes
Click for more detail about How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
Click for more detail about They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Expanded Edition) by Hanif Abdurraqib
Click for more detail about The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Click for more detail about The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic by Valerie Boyd
Click for more detail about Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher
Click for more detail about Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Click for more detail about Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd (editor)
Click for more detail about Promise Broken by K’wan
Click for more detail about Black Fire This Time by Kim McMillon
Click for more detail about You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Click for more detail about Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set by Zora Neale Hurston
Click for more detail about We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
Click for more detail about The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
Click for more detail about The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture by Randall Kennedy
Click for more detail about Ain’t I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
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 Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community by Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Smalls Lloyd
Click for more detail about How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
Click for more detail about The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery by Rochelle Riley
Click for more detail about The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry by Clarence Major
Click for more detail about All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective by Lenard D. Moore
Click for more detail about Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman and Edited by Terrance Hayes
Click for more detail about Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
Click for more detail about Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne
Click for more detail about The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X
Click for more detail about The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation by Cynthia Manick
Click for more detail about midnight & indigo Issue 2: celebrating black women writers by Ianna A. Small
Click for more detail about New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
Click for more detail about When You Learn the Alphabet by Kendra Allen
Click for more detail about Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not? by Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd
Click for more detail about The Huey P. Newton Reader, 2nd Edtion by Huey P. Newton
Click for more detail about Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
Click for more detail about And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueen
Click for more detail about Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola
Click for more detail about Meaty: Essays by samantha irby
Click for more detail about Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People by Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King
Click for more detail about Conversations with John A. Williams by Jeffrey Allen Tucker and John A. Williams
Click for more detail about Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays) by Sophfronia Scott
Click for more detail about Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Click for more detail about New Orleans Griot: The Tom Dent Reader by Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
Click for more detail about The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Encyclopedia of Black Comics by Sheena C. Howard
Click for more detail about Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Click for more detail about The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
Click for more detail about Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives by Abiodun Oyewole
Click for more detail about Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara by Thabiti Lewis
Click for more detail about Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka
Click for more detail about My Joy by Suzette D. Harrison
Click for more detail about Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Click for more detail about Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick Douglass
Click for more detail about Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs by Albert Murray
Click for more detail about The Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair by Jay Morrison
Click for more detail about Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
Click for more detail about Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader by Greg Tate
Click for more detail about Red Summer by KT Alozie
Click for more detail about Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews by Jacqueline Bishop
Click for more detail about These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship by A Yemisi Jimoh and Françoise Hamlin
Click for more detail about Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson
Click for more detail about But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies by Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith
Click for more detail about 4 Pages 16 Bars: The Symphony (Volume 1) by Jiba Molei Anderson
Click for more detail about The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean by James Davis
Click for more detail about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Click for more detail about Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 by Abiodun Oyewole
Click for more detail about The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall (Editors)
Click for more detail about The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (3rd Edition) Set by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
Click for more detail about White Girls by Hilton Als
Click for more detail about How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America by Kiese Laymon
Click for more detail about The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Countee Cullen: Collected Poems by Countee Cullen
Click for more detail about Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about In The Black: New African Canadian Literature by Althea Prince
Click for more detail about The Works Of Alain Locke by Charles Molesworth
Click for more detail about The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness by Kevin Young
Click for more detail about Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness by Rebecca Walker
Click for more detail about Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara by Toni Cade Bambara
Click for more detail about Karma’s Footsteps by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Click for more detail about Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues by Kevin James Breaux and Zander Vyne
Click for more detail about The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Click for more detail about The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin and Randall Kenan
Click for more detail about Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street by Lee Stringer
Click for more detail about Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series) by Shirley A. James Hanshaw
Click for more detail about Lighthead (Poets, Penguin) by Terrance Hayes
Click for more detail about The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Click for more detail about The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Click for more detail about Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha by Melvin Van Peebles
Click for more detail about Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall by Melba Joyce Boyd
Click for more detail about Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers by Joanne V. Gabbin
Click for more detail about Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009 by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Click for more detail about Mixology (National Poetry Series) by Adrian Matejka
Click for more detail about I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about Best African American Essays: 2009 by Gerald L. Early
Click for more detail about The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics) by James Weldon Johnson
Click for more detail about Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about When A Good Will Goes Bad by Omar Scott
Click for more detail about Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing by Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Click for more detail about Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora by Randall Horton, M L Hunter, and Becky Thompson
Click for more detail about Black Maria by Kevin Young
Click for more detail about Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press by Frank Marshall Davis
Click for more detail about Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest Gaines
Click for more detail about Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature) by Miles Marshall Lewis
Click for more detail about Literary Divas: The Top 100+ Most Admired African-American Women in Literature by Heather Covington
Click for more detail about Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets) by Terrance Hayes
Click for more detail about Fiction, Essays & Poetry by Frank J. Webb
Click for more detail about What Keeps Me Standing: Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration by Dennis Kimbro
Click for more detail about The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade Bambara
Click for more detail about Selected Writings And Speeches Of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Click for more detail about Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Click for more detail about Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories by Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall (Editors), with Pearl Cleage, Donna Hill, Parry Brown, Omar Tyree, and others
Click for more detail about James Weldon Johnson: Writings by James Weldon Johnson
Click for more detail about The Best Of Emerge Magazine by George E. Curry
Click for more detail about Proverbs For The People by Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timmothy B. McCann, Brandon Massey, Kambon Obayani, Earl Sewell, and Maxine Thompson
Click for more detail about Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife by Carleen Brice
Click for more detail about African American Audio Experience by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks
Click for more detail about A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters by Pamela Newkirk
Click for more detail about Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing by E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden
Click for more detail about Hip Logic (National Poetry Series) by Terrance Hayes
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 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Click for more detail about Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by James Weldon Johnson
Click for more detail about The Ten Lights of God by Afaa Michael Weaver
Click for more detail about Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books by Max Rodriguez, Angeli R. Rasbury, Carol Taylor, and Charles Johnson
Click for more detail about James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds by James Baldwin and Toni Morrison (editor)
Click for more detail about The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Edition Vol. 1 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith
Click for more detail about Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen
Click for more detail about The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995 by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David Levering Lewis
Click for more detail about Shadow And Act by Ralph Ellison
Click for more detail about Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? by Lorraine Hansberry
Click for more detail about Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about The Black Librarian in America Revisited by E.J. Josey
Click for more detail about Selected Poems by Rita Dove
Click for more detail about Hand Dance by Wanda Coleman
Click for more detail about African Sleeping Sickness: Stories and Poems by Wanda Coleman
Click for more detail about Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction by Terry McMillan
Click for more detail about Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 by Mary Helen Washington