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The Complete Muhammad Ali
The Complete Muhammad Ali Tony Lindsay Book Review Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Ali is much more than a standard biography. The work provides specific details on numerous facets that su...
Hana Ali
Hana Ali 0000000023085001 Hana Ali, born in 1976, is the third youngest child of Muhammad Ali and author of three books about her father's life. Known for her appearances in documentaries like 'I am ...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers) Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Adapted by Margeaux Weston 9780316478854 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Bo...
The Muhammad Ali Reader
The Muhammad Ali Reader Gerald L. Early 9780062233578 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins Muhammad Ali—arguably the finest athlete of the twentieth century and incontestably one of the most famous Ame...
Ali on Ali: Why He Said What He Said When He Said It
Ali on Ali: Why He Said What He Said When He Said It Hana Ali 9781523503469 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing Muhammad Ali was a champion, a poet, a prophet. Sports Illustrated called h...
Muhammad Ali: The Long-Lost Movie
Muhammad Ali: The Long-Lost Movie Kam Williams ali_film.jpg Film Review Documentary Gives Glimpses of The Greatest in ’73 & ‘74 Muhammad Ali: The Long-Lost Movie Unra...
Howard L. Bingham, Max Wallace, and Muhammad Ali
Howard L. Bingham, Max Wallace, and Muhammad Ali MULTIPLE Howard L. Bingham, first black Hollywood Camera Guild crew photographer and friend of Muhammad Ali, published a definitive book on the boxer....
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America Howard L. Bingham, Max Wallace, and Muhammad Ali 9781590772089 Nonfiction M. Evans and Company Rowman & Littlefield Now an ...
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness Hana Ali 9780062917393 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Muhammad Ali’s daughter captures the legendary heavyweight boxing champion, O...
The Ultimate Ali Collection
The Ultimate Ali Collection Kam Williams the_ul1.jpg Film Review The Ultimate Ali Collection DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Ali Career Revisited via Classic Bouts and More on 3-Dis...
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Becoming Muhammad Ali James Patterson and Kwame Alexander 9780316498166 Nonfiction JIMMY Patterson Books Hachette Book Group From two heavy-hitters in children’s literature comes a biographical novel ...
Me and Muhammad Ali
Me and Muhammad Ali Jabari Asim 9781524739881 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A little boy’s joyous encounter with his hero, boxing champion and poet Muhammad Ali, is everything he’s ...
Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad 0000000083721495 Elijah Muhammad, born Elijah Poole, was an influential African-American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mento...
The Complete Muhammad Ali
The Complete Muhammad Ali Ishmael Reed 9781771860406 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Ree...
Muhammad Ali (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
Muhammad Ali (Little People, BIG DREAMS) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786033314 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover th...
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Walter Dean Myers 9781338290141 Nonfiction Scholastic Nonfiction Scholastic Inc. From his childhood in the segregated South to his final fight with Parkinson’s disease, Muha...
Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali
Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali James Haskins 9781681195889 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing “I am the greatest! I am the king!” Muhammad Ali was one of the most...
The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali
The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali Tonya Bolden 9780440417828 Nonfiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books An engaging look at life and legacy of Muhammad Ali for readers of all ages Muhammad Ali was...
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest Coloring Book of All Time
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest Coloring Book of All Time Darius James 9781627310475 Fiction Ace Books Penguin Random House Noted author Darius James introduces and edits the Spring 2017 editions of the Fe...
Laila Ali
Laila Ali NONE Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an undefeated five-time boxing world champion with a 24–0 record and a 2022 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee. As the daughter of...
The Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
The Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad Karl Evanzz 9780679442608 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House Here, eagerly anticipated, is the definitive biography of Elijah Muhammad ...
Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali
Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali Gabe Soria 9780593224632 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Discover the story behind Muhammad Ali and the boxing match that captivated the world, the...
Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali
Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali Randal Maurice Jelks 9781350074620 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsb...
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith 9780465079704 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Ca...
Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion
Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion Walter Dean Myers 9780060291310 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This acclaimed picture book biography is a perfect introduction to the great Muhammad Ali. Re...
Howard L. Bingham
Howard L. Bingham NONE Howard L. Bingham, the first black photographer in the Hollywood Camera Guild, is known for his intimate photos of Muhammad Ali and the Black Panthers. His remarkable career in...
A Spark of Greatness: The Autobiography of a Fighter
A Spark of Greatness: The Autobiography of a Fighter Laila Ali 9780593434857 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The true story of how Laila Ali went from being the daughter ...
Message to the Blackman In America
Message to the Blackman In America Elijah Muhammad 9781564114990 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books According to countless mainstream news organs, Elijah Muhammad, by far, was the most powerful b...
12 Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
12 Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763650025 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press "An in-depth look at Ali’s life through twelve rhyming poems… . Collier’s ...
Ali
Ali Marvin X alimovie.jpg Film Review ""A notable and articulate advocacy of black conscientious objection came from the Nation of Islam. In 1942 Elijah Muhammad was arrested in Chicago an...
Laila Ali - Interview
Laila Ali - Interview Kam Williams Interview Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, Rumba Young Woman Rumba! Laila Ali was born in Miami Beach on December 30th, 1977 to Muhamma...
Muhammad Ali: A Little Golden Book Biography
Muhammad Ali: A Little Golden Book Biography Frank Berrios 9780593703892 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Becoming Muhammad Ali James Patterson and Kwame Alexander 9780316498173 Fiction JIMMY Patterson Books Hachette Book Group
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith MULTIPLE Randy Roberts is distinguished professor of history at Purdue University. An award-winning author, he focuses on the intersection of popular and political cul...
David Remnick
David Remnick 0000000110215708 David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and staff writer since 1992, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for books on the Soviet Empire, Muhammad Ali, B...
Float Like a Butterfly
Float Like a Butterfly Ntozake Shange 9781368008273 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Muhammad Ali is considered by many to have been the finest athlete of the twentieth century. Here is a co...
This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s
This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s Gerald L. Early 9780803218239 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press The fascinating and turbulent black America of th...
Float Like a Butterfly
Float Like a Butterfly Ntozake Shange 9780786805549 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Muhammad Ali, considered by many to be the finest athlete of the twentieth century...
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography Gordon Parks 9780767922128 Nonfiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Alone after his mother’s death, homeless in a Minnesota winter, young Gordon struggle...
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism Howard Bryant 9780807026991 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson an...
Do It for the People: Black Athletes, Activism, and Justice
Do It for the People: Black Athletes, Activism, and Justice Derrick Barnes 9780358006060 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From the critically acclaimed and award-winning creators of Crown ...
The Perilous Fight
The Perilous Fight Colin Kaepernick 9781538777879 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group The defining and uncompromising memoir from Super Bowl quarterback and renowned civil rights activist, Colin...
Arsenio: A Memoir
Arsenio: A Memoir Arsenio Hall 9781982191368 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● September 27, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT Arsenio H...
Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography
Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography Shasta Clinch 9780593904442 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Discover the courageous life of Rosa Parks with this historical Little Golden Book, ...
Everything But Typical: Influential Neurodivergent People Who Have Shaped the World
Everything But Typical: Influential Neurodivergent People Who Have Shaped the World Margeaux Weston 9781547614110 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Celebrate remarkable neurod...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship Dana A. Williams 9780063011977 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this lege...
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style Monica L. Miller 9781588397997 Nonfiction Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art...
Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America Mark Whitaker 9781668033296 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Published to coincide with the hundredth anni...
Willie Mays: A Little Golden Book Biography
Willie Mays: A Little Golden Book Biography Anne Wynter 9780593813294 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about one of the greatest baseball play...
Lebron James: A Little Golden Book Biography
Lebron James: A Little Golden Book Biography Shasta Clinch 9780593708309 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about one of the greatest basketball...
Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970
Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970 Gordon Parks 9783969992289 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl Parks’ impactful images from the forefront of the civil rights a...
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History Hoke S. Glover III and V. Efua Prince 9781324078876 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A refreshing, insightful, sacri...
Fat Time and Other Stories
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fa...
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street Victor Luckerson 9780593134375 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A multigenerational saga of a...
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593566732 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Olympi...
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Rita Dove 9781324050438 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2021 NAACP Image Award ...
MS Davis: A Graphic Biography
MS Davis: A Graphic Biography Sybille Titeux de la Croix 9781683965695 Fiction Fantagraphics Books Fantagraphics Books In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhamm...
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback)
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback) Gene Barretta 9780062430182 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins The inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secre...
Little Black Lives Matter
Little Black Lives Matter Khodi Dill 9781644211878 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes f...
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes Ramon Hervey II 9780063048034 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II ...
That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World
That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World Rochelle Riley, and Cristi Smith-Jones 9780814347546 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press In February 2017, Roc...
The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing
The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing Gerald Horne 9780717808298 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers Based upon exhaustive research...
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver Gene Barretta 9780062430151 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secret ga...
No Crystal Stair
No Crystal Stair Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9781541514911 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller "You can’t w...
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345707 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books This souve...
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780761339434 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had a...
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel Sondra Kathryn Wilson 9781451646160 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A “brassy yet deeply respectful book” (Publishers Week...
More than an Athlete: Poems by Etan Thomas
More than an Athlete: Poems by Etan Thomas Etan Thomas 9781608463329 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books With the conviction of a Bill Russell, and the poetic finesse of Muhammad Ali, Thomas takes ...
African Americans In Chicago (Images Of America) (Images Of America (Arcadia Publishing))
African Americans In Chicago (Images Of America) (Images Of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Lowell D. Thompson 9780738588537 Fiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing The story of black Chicago is s...
Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History
Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History Cheryl Finley, Laurence A. Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter 9780822944140 Nonfiction University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Publish...
The Brand Within: The Power Of Branding From Birth To The Boardroom (Display Of Power Series)
The Brand Within: The Power Of Branding From Birth To The Boardroom (Display Of Power Series) Daymond John 9780982596210 Nonfiction Display of Power Publishing, Inc. Display of Power Publishing, Inc. ...
Honoring the Ancestors
Honoring the Ancestors James E. Cherry 9780883782934 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press The frustration, anger, and restlessness caused by African American oppression are exorcised in this mov...
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete William C. Rhoden 9780307353146 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and...
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete William C. Rhoden 9780609601204 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur A...
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) Kathleen Fearn-Banks 9780810853355 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield From Amos ’...
To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
To Repel Ghosts: The Remix Kevin Young 9780375710230 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures...
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States Dave Zirin 9781931859202 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Zirin is America’s best sportswriter.”—Lee Ballinger, Rock and Rap...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War
Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War Ishmael Reed 9780465068920 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population fro...
Antebellum Dream Book
Antebellum Dream Book Elizabeth Alexander 9781555973544 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press In surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms ...
The Pan-Africanists
The Pan-Africanists Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson 9780865438101 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made o...
Notes From the New Chitlin Circuit
Notes From the New Chitlin Circuit Kwasi Ramsey 9780967108216 Poetry Division of Words Division of Words Notes From the New Chitlin Circuit is taking contemporary poetry to new extremes. It attacks t...
What’s Going On
What’s Going On Nathan McCall 9780375701504 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House With the same personal authority and exhilarating directness he brought to his account of his passage from a prison ...
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris 9780195065107 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here indeed ...
Talking Drums: An African-American Quote Collection
Talking Drums: An African-American Quote Collection Anita Doreen Diggs 9780312141387 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Organized into more than seventy-five subject categories and fea...
Belly Song and Other Poems
Belly Song and Other Poems Etheridge Knight 9780910296885 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers—Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick...
Charles R. Smith Jr.
Charles R. Smith Jr. NONE Charles R. Smith Jr. is an acclaimed author, poet, and photographer with over 30 books. He's a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and Honor Author Aw...
Gene Barretta
Gene Barretta NONE Gene Barretta is an acclaimed children's book author and illustrator, known for titles like “Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare.” He has won the Carolyn W. Field Award and Bank...
A Hand to Guide Me
A Hand to Guide Me Kam Williams Book Review "Every individual you are about to meet in these pages has remained humble, and that’s been my mantra for as long as I can remember’ a...
Forty Million Dollar Slaves
Forty Million Dollar Slaves Kam Williams Book Review "The Belt carries young black athletes out of black America and introduces them to a world with very few African-Americans, a world o...
1971 (★★★★) Film Review
1971 (★★★★) Film Review Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/1971.jpg Film Review Whistleblower Documentary Recounts Break-In Uncovering Illegal FBI Surveillance Program 1971 In Theaters: Fe...