6 Books Published by Shamal Books on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Click for more detail about Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation by Toni Pressley-Sanon Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation

by Toni Pressley-Sanon
Shamal Books (Feb 13, 2024)
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The lives and writings of six leading Black Buddhist women—Jan Willis, bell hooks, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, angel Kyodo williams, Spring Washam, and Faith Adiele—reveal new expressions of Buddhism rooted in ancestry, love, and collective liberation.

Lifting as They Climb is a love letter of freedom and self-expression from six Black women Buddhist teachers, conveyed through the voice of author Toni Pressley-Sanon, one of the innumerable people who have benefitted from their wisdom. She explores their remarkable lives and undertakes deep readings of their work, weaving them into the broader tapestry of the African diaspora and the historical struggle for Black liberation.

Black women in the U.S. have adapted Buddhist practice to meet challenges ranging from the injustices of the Jim Crow South to sexual violence, social discrimination, and bias within their Buddhist communities. Using their voices through the practice of memoir and other forms of writing, they have not only realized their own liberation but carried forward the Black tradition of leading others on the path toward collective awakening.


Click for more detail about Scattered Scripture by Louis Reyes Rivera Scattered Scripture

by Louis Reyes Rivera
Shamal Books (Jun 01, 1996)
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From the back cover: "Often compared to Arthur A. Schomberg and Ramon Emeterio Betances, Louis Reyes Rivera is viewed as many as a bridge between our Pan-American African and Latino communities. With this third book of poetry, he demonstrates why he is called "The Janitor of History." Here is testament on behalf of the disinherited, an oration against the distortions of history; poetry at its finest. Every stanza and line singes with sound, sense, rhythm and color, agony and celebration. These 46 poems span 21 years of searching through the rubble of our own contradiction. His is not a bitter voice, though deep his poems cut through pain and hope and human capacity. Their intention: to confront our refusal to admit what we do to one another. Their mission: to advance the clearest definition of ourselves. Their aim: accurate and compelling."


This One For You

by Louis Reyes Rivera
Shamal Books (Jan 01, 1983)
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Click for more detail about Womanrise (Anthology) by Louis Reyes Rivera Womanrise (Anthology)

by Louis Reyes Rivera
Shamal Books (Jan 01, 1978)
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Free!

by Sekou Sundiata
Shamal Books (May 30, 1905)
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Who Pays The Cost

by Louis Reyes Rivera
Shamal Books (Jan 01, 1970)
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