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Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin 0000000401943238 Ruha Benjamin is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Ruha Benjamin is a renowned sociologist, professor, and author specializing in tec...
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America Rich Benjamin 9781401322687 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich ...
Two Masks One Heart
Two Masks One Heart Jacob Spears and Trayvon D. Jackson 9781943686506 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Local gangster Benjamin Clark has all of Georgia on ’lockdown.’ The drug kingpin sit...
J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse
J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse MULTIPLE J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse are renowned authors, known for their compelling narratives. Their unique perspectives and engaging storytelling have establishe...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown MULTIPLE Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown are notable authors with extensive experience in the literature field. Their works primarily focus on soci...
J.M. Benjamin
J.M. Benjamin NONE Allow me to introduce you to one of the hardest working hustlers in urban lit: J.M. Benjamin J.M. Benjamin is a successful, powerful and impacting ...
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider MULTIPLE K'wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider are accomplished authors, each bringing unique s...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. NONE Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an activist, author, and journalist, currently the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Previously, he s...
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin 9780691222882 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision ...
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay Shanna Greene Benjamin 9781469662534 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006)...
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Ruha Benjamin 9780804782968 Nonfiction Stanford University Press Stanford University Press Stem cell research has sparked controversy and ...
Orchester Benjamin
Orchester Benjamin NONE Orchester Benjamin, a former street player, became a writer and historian of the “Game” at 73. He balances family life, promoting his books, supporting urban literature, and w...
Benjamin Brawley
Benjamin Brawley 000000010856022X Benjamin G. Brawley was a prominent author and educator, born in 1882. He earned degrees from Morehouse College, University of Chicago, and Harvard. Brawley taught E...
Shanna Greene Benjamin
Shanna Greene Benjamin NONE Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar focusing on Black women's literature and intellectual history. She's published in various reviews and also works as a co...
Benjamin Quarles
Benjamin Quarles 0000000121004017 Benjamin A. Quarles (1904-1996) was a renowned historian and prolific writer, known for his extensive research on black soldiers and abolitionists in the American Re...
Imagination: A Manifesto
Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin 9781324020974 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? ...
I Am Benjamin Franklin
I Am Benjamin Franklin Brad Meltzer 9780525555919 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House The 21st book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Benja...
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Randal Maurice Jelks 9780807835364 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In this first full-l...
From Incarceration 2 Incorporation
From Incarceration 2 Incorporation J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse 9780981775647 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing From Incarceration 2 Incorporation is about the powerful journ...
Down In The Dirty
Down In The Dirty J.M. Benjamin 9780970819161 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing Childhood friends, Keisha, Desiree, Tasha and Pam quickly learn how to use their beauty an...
Rich Benjamin
Rich Benjamin 0000000065214377 Rich Benjamin is a cultural anthropologist and the author of Searching for Whitopia. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Kam Williams the_cu20.jpg Film Review Brad Pitt Stars in Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic The Curious Ca...
Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko
Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko Derek Tyler Attico 9781803366258 Fiction Titan Books (UK) Titan Publishing Group The fascinating life of Starfleet’s celebrated captain, and Bajor’s Emissary of the Pro...
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History Rich Benjamin 9780593317396 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown 9781590795699 Nonfiction Select Books Select Books The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the...
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals Doug Melville 9781668005132 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Th...
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Benjamin Quarles 9781574782035 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press “No study of the Garrison school of reformers, Liberty party abolitionism, the technique of anti-sla...
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406 Nonfiction Polity Press Polity Press Race After Technology is a brilliant, beautifully argued, engagingly wri...
Radiance Of Tomorrow
Radiance Of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah 9780374246020 Fiction Sarah Crichton Books Sarah Crichton Books A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way GoneWhen Ishmael Beah’s A Lo...
Soft
Soft T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill 9781601624635 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling authors Ashley and JaQuavi...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois Stanley Crouch and Playtehll Benjamin 9780762413492 Nonfiction Running Press Hachette Book Group Sta...
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised)
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780807846032 Nonfiction Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Pre...
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded Benjamin Quarles 9780684818887 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The bestselling, definitive study of African Am...
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Dear Benjamin Banneker Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780152004170 Nonfiction Gulliver Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, ...
Lincoln and the Negro
Lincoln and the Negro Benjamin Quarles 9780306804472 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group First published in 1962, Lincoln and the Negro was the first book to examine in detail how Lincoln fac...
Black Abolitionists (Revised)
Black Abolitionists (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780306804250 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery moveme...
The Negro in the Civil War
The Negro in the Civil War Benjamin Quarles 9780306803505 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group "The Civil War was a revolution in many ways," writes Benjamin Quarles in this renowned...
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America Lillie Patterson 9780687029006 Nonfiction Abingdon Press Abingdon Press True, young Benjamin’s "eyes fairly danced with excitement," but it’s conta...
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin MULTIPLE
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill MULTIPLE
Nellie Y. McKay
Nellie Y. McKay 0000000081108566 Nellie Y. McKay, an influential figure in American literature, co-edited the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Her work highlighted the scholarly study...
Trinity
Trinity Zelda Lockhart 9780063160965 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tri...
Imagination: A Manifesto
Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin 9781324105015 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge 9781469673196 Nonfiction University of North Caro...
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771484 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair ...
Trinity
Trinity Zelda Lockhart 9780063160958 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tri...
Moth to a Flame: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Moth to a Flame: Tenth Anniversary Edition Ashley Antoinette 9781645560555 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left stand...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622861293 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of ...
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life Ruha Benjamin 9781478003816 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The con...
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States Benjamin Brawley 9781983447174 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This book is an amazing, interesting, detailed look at black people,...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622864904 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double Gs have ch...
Memoirs of an Accidental Hustler
Memoirs of an Accidental Hustler J.M. Benjamin 9781622864737 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. A Brownstone in the Bed-Sty area of Brooklyn New York, traded in for a housing projects in ...
Moth to a Flame
Moth to a Flame Ashley Antoinette 9781601624796 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of cha...
Ride Or Die Chick 3
Ride Or Die Chick 3 J.M. Benjamin 9780981775685 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Imagine being the product of one of the most notorious Bonnie & Clyde couples to ever terroriz...
Memoirs Of An Accidental Hustler
Memoirs Of An Accidental Hustler J.M. Benjamin 9780982944219 Nonfiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing A Brownstone in the Bed-Sty area of Brooklyn New York, traded in for a housing...
Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism Maurice Jackson 9780812221268 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press Anthony Benezet (17...
Heaven & Earth
Heaven & Earth J.M. Benjamin 9780981775654 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing The Columbians had Pablo Escobar… The Cubans had Scarface…The Italians had John Gotti…And the Broth...
Saving Our Daughters: From A Man’s Point Of View Vol. 2
Saving Our Daughters: From A Man’s Point Of View Vol. 2 Curtis Benjamin 9780615292649 Nonfiction ICTBS Publishing ICTBS Publishing To Whom It May Concern: Saving Our Daughters Volume 2 is back and ha...
Ride Or Die Chick II
Ride Or Die Chick II J.M. Benjamin 9780979861413 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing After the dust settles, Teflon has some unfinished business to handle. But she’s not ri...
On The Run With Love
On The Run With Love J.M. Benjamin 9780981775609 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Freddie Holmes could’ve wrote the book on How to Be A Player. With his good looks, gift of ga...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin 9780977342112 Fiction SoulViewWorld SoulViewWorld OLD ...
My Manz And ’Em
My Manz And ’Em J.M. Benjamin 9780979199004 Fiction Real Edutainment Publishing L.L.C. Real Edutainment Publishing L.L.C. Growing up in the West Second street housing projects, in Plainfield, New Jers...
Ride Or Die Chick
Ride Or Die Chick J.M. Benjamin 9780739494110 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance in life from the day he was born. Never ...
Menace II Society
Menace II Society Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin 9780971702172 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Menace II Society is a gritty w...
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay 9780140287332 Fiction Peter Pauper Press Peter Pauper Press In this landmark collection, 100 British writers of ...
Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown (Revised)
Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780306809613 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group John Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two c...
Ben Carson
Ben Carson 0000000110700201 Dr. Benjamin Carson, once a child from a poor, single-parent home, overcame challenges to fulfill his dream of becoming a physician. Now, he's a renowned pediatric neurosu...
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats 0000000370477827 Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) was a pioneering children's book author and illustrator known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American literature. Despit...
Richard B. Moore
Richard B. Moore 0000000082432341 Moore was an early advocate for the use of “African American” as opposed to “Negro” or “Black.” Richard Benjamin Moore was an infl...
Ben Jealous
Ben Jealous 0000000417015073 Benjamin Todd Jealous is a notable American civil rights leader and social impact investor. He was the youngest-ever national leader of the NAACP (2008-2013) and ran for ...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin Excerpt If you dig deep en...
Black Stats (2nd Edition): African Americans by the Numbers
Black Stats (2nd Edition): African Americans by the Numbers Monique Couvson 9781620979624 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening—and frequently...
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...
This Is Not a Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets
This Is Not a Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets Traci N. Todd 9798887772042 Poetry Nosy Crow Nosy Crow A beautiful, bold collection of more than 100 dazzling poems by Black poets for the whole family ...
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel Blair Underwood and Joe McClean 9780063316782 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Harlem Shuffle meets The Godfather in this fierce and dazzling crime family saga ...
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Matthew F. Delmont 9781984880413 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The definitive history ...
Control Freaks
Control Freaks J.E. Thomas 9781646143054 Fiction Levine Querido Levine Querido Best of the Best, Black Caucus of the American Library Association One week. One prize. Seven really weird challenges....
The Real History of the White House
The Real History of the White House Cicely Lewis 9781728479132 Nonfiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group The White House is often seen as a symbol of freedom, but it was built by enslaved peo...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Willard Jenkins 9781478019039 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major ...
Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids: 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids: 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A. Arlisha Norwood 9781638788232 Nonfiction Callisto Kids Callisto Publishing Meet extraordinary ...
Black Inventors: 15 Inventions That Changed the World
Black Inventors: 15 Inventions That Changed the World Kathy Trusty 9781648768682 Nonfiction Callisto Kids Callisto Publishing Discover 15 inventors and inventions that changed the world in this guide ...
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever John McWhorter 9780593188798 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House Nine Nasty Words is a deeply intelligent celebration of language that...
The Snotty Nosed Kids
The Snotty Nosed Kids Maurice Todd 9781736391402 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecting a book for their children? Might the ans...
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Secret of The Lily
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Secret of The Lily Maurice Todd 9781736391433 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecting a book for th...
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Flight of The Magical Pajamas
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Flight of The Magical Pajamas Maurice Todd 9781736391464 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecting a ...
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Hidden Isle of Sepalo
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Hidden Isle of Sepalo Maurice Todd 9781736391495 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecting a book for...
The Snotty Nosed Kids (Paperback)
The Snotty Nosed Kids (Paperback) Maurice Todd 9781736391419 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecting a book for their children? M...
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Secret of The Lily (Paperback)
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Secret of The Lily (Paperback) Maurice Todd 9781736391440 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecting ...
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Hidden Isle of Sepalo (Paperback)
The Snotty Nosed Kids and The Hidden Isle of Sepalo (Paperback) Maurice Todd 9781736895603 Fiction SNK Rocks SNK Rocks What are some of the most important aspects that a parent looks for when selecti...
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka Jean-Philippe Marcoux 9780814257845 Nonfiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press This collection of original essays bri...
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White William Sturkey 9780674248274 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks...
The Magic in Changing Your Stars
The Magic in Changing Your Stars Leah Henderson 9781454934066 Fiction Sterling Children’s Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Can you change your fate—and the fate of those you love—if you return to th...
Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids: 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A. (Paperback)
Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids: 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A. (Paperback) Arlisha Norwood 9781641527040 Nonfiction Callisto Kids Callisto Publishing Meet ex...
More Than Love
More Than Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172235 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Going from friends to lovers doesn’t come easy…Corporate attorney Benjamin Jenkins is one of Cincinnati’s most...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander 9781620971932 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way...