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Common The “Just Wright” Interview
Common The “Just Wright” Interview Kam Williams Interview Common was born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. in Chicago on March 13, 1972 to Lonnie, Sr. a former pro basketball player, and Dr. ...
Common - The "Happy Feet Two" Interview [November 2011]
Common - The "Happy Feet Two" Interview [November 2011] Kam Williams Interview The Dreamer, The Believer Born Lonnie Rashid Lynn in Chicago on March 13, 1972, Common rose to prominence as one ...
Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir
Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir Common 9781501133169 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden...
One Day It’ll All Make Sense
One Day It’ll All Make Sense Common 9781451625875 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Common has earned a reputation in the hip hop world as a conscious artist by embracing themes of love an...
Common - Smokin' Aces Interview
Common - Smokin' Aces Interview Kam Williams Interview Common Making Sense Born in Chicago on March 13, 1972, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. is said to be one of seven children fathered by ...
Common Courage Press
Common Courage Press Common Courage Press Common Courage Press
Common Notions
Common Notions Common Notions Common Notions
Common Courage Press
Common Courage Press Common Courage Press Common Courage Press
Common Notions
Common Notions Common Notions Common Notions
And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self
And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self Common 9780063215177 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins From the multi-award-winning performer, author, and activist, a comprehensive progra...
Apartheid U.S.A.; Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (Freedom Organizing Series, Number 2)
Apartheid U.S.A.; Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (Freedom Organizing Series, Number 2) Audre Lorde and Merle Woo 9780913175064 Nonfiction Kitchen Table: Women o...
Using Common Core Standards to teach Kushite History
Using Common Core Standards to teach Kushite History Clyde Winters 9781494336868 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Teaching Kushite History Using Common Core State Standards is divided i...
Pinned
Pinned Sharon G. Flake 9780545057189 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Award-winning author, Sharon G. Flake, presents a powerful novel about a teen boy and girl, each tackling disabilities.Aut...
The African Book Of Names: 5,000+ Common And Uncommon Names From The African Continent
The African Book Of Names: 5,000+ Common And Uncommon Names From The African Continent Askhari Johnson Hodari 9780757307799 Nonfiction HCI HCI From an author who adopted an African name as an adult,...
Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground
Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground Ahdaf Soueif 9781400096633 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House From the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love–an incisive collect...
Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America
Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America Philippe E. Wamba 9780756756451 Nonfiction Dutton/Penguin Penguin Random House When Philippe Wamba’s African American mother married his Congolese fat...
Transitioning to Real Life
Transitioning to Real Life Jamie Walker Book Review It isn't easy transitioning from college to the real world, but in Transitioning to Real Life: A Common Sense Guide for the African American ...
In-Dependence from Bondage
In-Dependence from Bondage Kam Williams Book Review ’Claude McKay (1890-1948) and Michael N. Manley (1924-1997) shared a common commitment to the struggle of African Diaspora people for libe...
The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense
The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense Maya Contreras 9780063487239 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An incisive investigation into how language ha...
Off the Common Books
Off the Common Books Levellers Press Collective Copies
Harvard Common Press
Harvard Common Press The Quarto Group Quarto Publishing Group USA
They Wouldn’t Dare
They Wouldn’t Dare Deanna Grey 9798987895566 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey Three simple words changed everything between us: I dare you. David Evans is a thorn in my side. A smart-mouthed, egotis...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
Wimbledon BookFest
Wimbledon BookFest Wimbledon Common London England It was founded in 2006 by Fiona Razvi and Tony Kane whose ambition was to develop the arts and cultural offering in the area. The public festival tak...
Color, Communism and Common Sense
Color, Communism and Common Sense Manning Johnson 9781639231041 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Here is the story of one Black American Communist who became disillusioned with Communism and pen...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Heather McGhee 9780525509561 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and ...
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team Arshay Cooper 9781250754769 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Now a documentary narrated by Com...
One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being More Alike Than Different
One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being More Alike Than Different Linsey Davis 9780310767855 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Linsey Davis, Emmy-winning correspondent for ABC News, ...
Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Revised)
Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Revised) Ozlem Sensoy and Robin Diangelo 9780807758618 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College This i...
A-C-T Like A Kid And T-H-I-N-K Like A Parent
A-C-T Like A Kid And T-H-I-N-K Like A Parent Katherine Shears and C. S. Whitehurst 9781547102884 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Just for kicks, have you ever wondered what your parent...
We Want Freedom
We Want Freedom Mumia Abu-Jamal 9781942173045 Nonfiction Common Notions Common Notions Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner, is internationally known for his “live from death row”...
7 Little White Lies: The Conspiracy to Destroy the Black Self-Image
7 Little White Lies: The Conspiracy to Destroy the Black Self-Image Jabari Osaze 9780692657676 Nonfiction African Genesis Institute Press African Genesis Institute Press 7 Little White Lies is a maste...
UNCOMMONLY COMMON
UNCOMMONLY COMMON Desmond L. Kemp 9781513600703 Fiction 220 Communications 220 Communications
History of Blacks in America from Pre-History to 1877: A Common Core State Standards History
History of Blacks in America from Pre-History to 1877: A Common Core State Standards History Clyde Winters 9781505827613 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In History of Blacks in America...
Invasion
Invasion Walter Dean Myers 9780545384285 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II.Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way...
Common Core State Standards and Social Science
Common Core State Standards and Social Science Clyde Winters 9781492196426 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In this book we present ideas that teachers can use to increase the rigor of ...
The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas
The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas Brenda M. Greene 9781443822169 Nonfiction Cambridge Scholars Publishing Cambridge Scholars Publishing ’The African Presence and Influ...
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse Richard Thompson Ford 9780374245757 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers What do Katrina victims waiting for fede...
Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless Cora Daniels 9780385516433 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House From the Introduction:ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster diction...
7 Things Young Black Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives: And How to Avoid Them … with a Word to Parents
7 Things Young Black Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives: And How to Avoid Them … with a Word to Parents Daniel Whyte III 9780976348726 Nonfiction Torch Legacy Publications Torch Legacy Publications Too m...
Transitioning to Real Life: A Common Sense Guide for the African-American New College Graduate
Transitioning to Real Life: A Common Sense Guide for the African-American New College Graduate Yvonne Curry Smallwood 9780977635603 Nonfiction Prazz Publications Prazz Publications This twelve-chapter...
Going Off: A Guide for Black Women Who’ve Just About Had Enough
Going Off: A Guide for Black Women Who’ve Just About Had Enough Faye Childs 9780312245412 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Going Off examines common scenarios that can lead to anger in fri...
One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America
One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America Keith Boykin 9780385479837 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In the aftermath of the historic 1993 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights, Kei...
Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times Cornel West 9781567510041 Nonfiction Common Courage Press Common Courage Press Book by West, Cornel
Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. Two)
Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. Two) Cornel West 9781567510065 Nonfiction Common Courage Press Common Courage Press Book by We...
Corinna Luyken
Corinna Luyken NONE Corinna Luyken, renowned author-illustrator of the New York Times bestseller “My Heart”, “The Tree In Me”, and “The Book of Mistakes”, also illustrates for “Adrian Simcox Does Not...
Andre R. Thornton
Andre R. Thornton NONE Andre R. Thornton, an African American poet and visual artist, aims to challenge common misconceptions through his work. Based in Columbia, Maryland, his diverse creations rang...
William Melvin Kelley
William Melvin Kelley 0000000108984997 William Melvin Kelley was a notable American novelist and short-story writer, known for using African American comedy to critique racial attitudes. He taught li...
Abuela, Grandma & Me
Abuela, Grandma & Me Natasha S. Alford 9780063303850 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Written by TV commentator and SVP and Chief Content Officer at TheGrio Natasha S. Alford, this Spanish-infle...
Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager
Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager Alexis Nikole Nelson 9781668002544 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. Beloved social media sensation Black Forage...
Levellers Press
Levellers Press Collective Copies Off the Common Books
The Quarto Group
The Quarto Group Quarto Publishing Group USA Becker & Mayer Cool Springs Press Fair Winds Press (MA) Frances Lincoln Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Harvard Common Press Leaping Hare Press Wellfleet ...
Black Classic Press
Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Founded in 1978, by W. Paul Coates, Black Classic Press is devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of A...
Honor Thy Mother: How to Grieve, Heal, and Make Peace with Your Mother Wounds
Honor Thy Mother: How to Grieve, Heal, and Make Peace with Your Mother Wounds Sarita T. Lyons 9798217152452 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House Honor Thy Mother is a compassionate guide f...
The Revenge Playbook
The Revenge Playbook Rimma Onoseta 9781643751924 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this deliciously twisty YA novel, two girls (read: enemies) at a boarding school m...
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South Melvin Patrick Ely 9781250381118 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Relationships between Black and white people that ...
Konbit
Konbit Sony Ton-Aime 9780887487262 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press Poems that capture a transformative and visionary way of life in Haiti. Konbit is a Haiti...
The Way Love Goes: A Guide to Building a "Beaurtiful" and Everlasting Relationship
The Way Love Goes: A Guide to Building a "Beaurtiful" and Everlasting Relationship Shawntae Harris and Jesseca Harris-Dupart 9780063349643 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Hip-hop legend “Da Brat” DuP...
Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining
Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell 9798217002672 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighbor...
Convocation Speech - L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University by Troy Johnson
Convocation Speech - L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University by Troy Johnson Convocation Speech - L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syra...
Fire Sword and Sea: A Novel
Fire Sword and Sea: A Novel Vanessa Riley 9780063271043 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black, and women! From acclaimed author Vanessa Riley, aut...
A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past
A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past Clyde W. Ford 9780063309814 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The author and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Libra...
Hattie Mae Begins Again
Hattie Mae Begins Again Sharon G. Flake 9780593650349 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author of The Skin I’m In co...
Champagne Taste on a Bad Boy Budget: A Spicy Opposites Attract Romance About Redemption
Champagne Taste on a Bad Boy Budget: A Spicy Opposites Attract Romance About Redemption Zuri Day 9781335507303 Fiction Afterglow Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited “Perfectly balancing sweetness and ...
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present Deborah Willis 9781324091790 Nonfiction Liveright W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION The accla...
Twins, But Different
Twins, But Different Porsche Thomas 9780593813089 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Model and mother to twin boys, Porsche Thomas presents this Step 2 leveled reader ab...
Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor’s Quest for Reform
Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor’s Quest for Reform Debbie Hines 9780262553964 Nonfiction MIT Press The MIT Press A Deeply Revealing Exposé of the American P...
Resting Bitch Face: Poems
Resting Bitch Face: Poems Taylor Byas 9781593767877 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels ...
One Big Open Sky
One Big Open Sky Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823460625 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free—or cost them everything they ...
Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey
Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey Amber O’Neal Johnston 9780800746193 Nonfiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Homeschooling is the faste...
Sunshine Baby, Bofrot Cheeks
Sunshine Baby, Bofrot Cheeks Bernard Mensah 9781499815139 Fiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Follow a sunshine-bright baby as he goes about his busy day with his dad in this perfect gift ...
Beyond the Hurt
Beyond the Hurt Akilah Trinay 9798992994438 Fiction ReVision Publishing ReVision Publishing The saying “six degrees of separation” has a completely new meaning in the city of Oakland. Although conside...
See Marcus Grow
See Marcus Grow Marcus Bridgewater 9780593406076 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Marcus Bridgewater, also known as the social media sensation Garden Marcus, shows kids the lessons he ...
Heart-Shaped Lies
Heart-Shaped Lies Elizabeth Agyemang 9780593484494 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House John Tucker Must Die meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in this tongue-in-cheek mystery about three feu...
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering Malcolm Gladwell 9780316575805 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Twenty-five years ...
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time Adaeze and Chad Brinkman 9781496474933 Nonfiction Tyndale Momentum Tyndale House Adaeze and Chad—two differen...
The Whole Man: 40 Spiritual Reflections from Black Men on the Head, Heart, Hands, and Soul
The Whole Man: 40 Spiritual Reflections from Black Men on the Head, Heart, Hands, and Soul Rasool Berry, Maliek Blade, and Jermone Gay Jr. 9781640703148 Nonfiction Our Daily Bread Publishing Our Daily...
Africali: Recipes from My Jikoni (a Cookbook)
Africali: Recipes from My Jikoni (a Cookbook) Kiano Moju 9781668002131 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. Named One of the Best Cookbooks of 2024: The New York Times, Bon Appetit, S...
Leon: Worst Friends Forever: A Graphic Novel (Leon #2)
Leon: Worst Friends Forever: A Graphic Novel (Leon #2) Jamar Nicholas 9781338744217 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Leon struggles with a super ego — and a super secret! — in the second graphic novel ...
This Opening Sky
This Opening Sky Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781638192152 Fiction Milk + Cookies Bushel & Peck Books Historical fiction at its finest! A sweet and sensitive, accessible middle grade n...
Sounds Like a Plan
Sounds Like a Plan Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith 9781668024294 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. One Missing Person. Two Rival Detectives. Infinite Chemistry. This rollickin...
Perdition, U.S.A.
Perdition, U.S.A. Gary Phillips 9781641294416 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Black private investigator Ivan Monk’s search for a connection between three murdered Black men in Los Angeles leads him int...
Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors
Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors Lyn Miller-Lachmann and Tanisia Moore 9798890680051 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press In Hollywood, women don’t have to be in front o...
Control
Control Omar Tyree 9781496748041 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their psychologist to her own v...
Insha’allah, No, Maybe So
Insha’allah, No, Maybe So Nadia Roumani and Rhonda Roumani 9780823454419 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A sweet and playful picture book about a common Arabic word for life’s uncertainties that w...
Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women’s Relationships
Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women’s Relationships Danielle Bayard Jackson 9780306830617 Nonfiction Hachette Go Hachette Book Group Why are women’s f...
Beyond Fragility: A Skills-Based Guide to Effective Anti-Racist Allyship
Beyond Fragility: A Skills-Based Guide to Effective Anti-Racist Allyship Yara Mekawi, Natalie Watson-Singleton, and Danyelle Dawson 9781962305068 Nonfiction Bridge City Books PESI Publishing Anti-raci...
Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue
Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau 9781647124465 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown University Press A Black-Jewish dialo...
Frenemy Fix-Up
Frenemy Fix-Up Yahrah St. John 9781335041586 Fiction Afterglow Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited Free-spirited yoga guru Shay Davis has only ninety days to get her workaholic former classmate Colin...
Bounce Back: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Resilience
Bounce Back: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Resilience Lynnette Khalfani-Cox 9781394205165 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley In Bounce Back, veteran financial coach and bestselling author Lynnette Khalfani-Cox ...
Juneteenth
Juneteenth Shasta Clinch 9781098292621 Nonfiction Core Library Abdo Publishing In the United States, Black people were enslaved for hundreds of years. In 1863, during the American Civil War, many ensl...
Self-Care for Black Men: 100 Ways to Heal and Liberate
Self-Care for Black Men: 100 Ways to Heal and Liberate Jor-El Caraballo 9781507221044 Nonfiction Adams Media Corporation Adams Media Corporation A self-care guidebook full of activities for Black men ...
Duel
Duel Jessixa Bagley 9781534496552 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A rivalry between sisters culminates in a fencing duel in this funny and emotional debut graph...
People Person
People Person Candice Carty-Williams 9781501196058 Fiction Gallery Books/Scout Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author of the “brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel” (Oprah Daily) Queenie...
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging Ben McBride 9781506489858 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Can you imagine a future that includes your enemies? If not, what happens next? ...
The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone
The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone Patrick Saint-Jean 9781506491158 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Discover how rooting our beliefs and practices ...
The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection
The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection Gary Phillips 9781953103369 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his ...
Emancipation
Emancipation Michael R. Lane 9780971645349 Fiction Bare Bones Press Bare Bones Press Emancipation is a compelling compilation of stories focusing on a broad cross-section of individuals. Gratey Johnso...
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed Dashka Slater 9780374314347 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmill...