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This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Anniversary)
This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Anniversary) Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa 9781438488288 Nonfiction State University of New York Pres...
Gloria Takes a Stand: How Gloria Steinem Listened, Wrote, and Changed the World
Gloria Takes a Stand: How Gloria Steinem Listened, Wrote, and Changed the World Jessica M. Rinker 9781681196763 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Perfect for fans of I Dissent...
Harold Phifer
Harold Phifer NONE Harold Phifer, also known as Dean Conan, is a Mississippi-born author who spent 23 years as an Air Traffic Controller with the FAA. Post FAA, he transitioned into an International ...
A Novelist’s Staying Power: Interview with Gloria Mallette
A Novelist’s Staying Power: Interview with Gloria Mallette DuEwa M. Frazier Interview I first met Gloria Mallette in 2000 at an author event at Zawadi Gifts in Brooklyn. Gloria ...
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat)
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat) Amatoritsero Ede 9781933354774 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books A startling new voice in Canadian letters.” Olive Senior, author of Shell"Ede has the ...
Gloria Mallette
Gloria Mallette NONE Gloria Mallette is a renowned author who began her career self-publishing “Shades of Jade” which was later picked up by Random House and made several best-sellers lists. Her work...
Dethroned: The Dark Side of Money II
Dethroned: The Dark Side of Money II d. E. Rogers 9780970880871 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books It was an epic, fierce, fight which left many deaths in her path, and when the smoke cleared Gloria had lo...
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 0000000115887079 Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a civil rights attorney, writer, playwright, and Constitutional Law professor at John Jay College (CUNY). She previously taught...
Between Sisters
Between Sisters Adwoa Badoe 9780888999962 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press The future looks bleak indeed for 16-year-old Gloria. Living in a poor area of Accra, she dreams of becoming a dressmake...
Q&A with Gloria Rolando on her film Reshipment Recalls Little-Known Chapter of Haitian-Cuban History
Q&A with Gloria Rolando on her film Reshipment Recalls Little-Known Chapter of Haitian-Cuban History Kam Williams Interview Gloria Rolando’s Documentary Film, Reshipment, Recalls a Little-Known Chapt...
Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures
Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures Michael Datcher 9781438473406 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Animating Black an...
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor 0000000117658077 Gloria Naylor, a prize-winning author, known for her novels like 'The Women of Brewster Place', 'Linden Hills', and 'Mama Day', also wrote essays, screenplays, and stag...
Gloria Naylor Discusses Her Novel The Men of Brewster Place on Barnesandnoble.com
Gloria Naylor Discusses Her Novel The Men of Brewster Place on Barnesandnoble.com Gloria Naylor Article Moderator: Welcome, Gloria Naylor! Thank you for taking the time to join us online this evening...
Gloria Oden
Gloria Oden 0000000382838642 Gloria Catherine Oden (1923-2011) was a renowned poet, editor, and English professor from New York. A Pulitzer Prize nominee for her poetry collection 'Resurrections', sh...
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu NONE Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, born in 1977, is a Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker, and academic with a PhD from Stanford. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman and made the ...
Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith
Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith MULTIPLE Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith are renowned authors, known for their influential work in literature and social ...
Gloria Wade-Gayles
Gloria Wade-Gayles 0000000080941716 Gloria Wade Gayles, Ph.D., is an esteemed scholar, literary critic, and essayist. She was honored as the Eminent Scholar's Chair at Spelman College in 2000 for Ind...
The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories Gloria Naylor 9780143136163 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that lau...
Gloria Reuben - The "Raising the Bar" Interview
Gloria Reuben - The "Raising the Bar" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in Toronto on June 9, 1964, Gloria Reuben is the second youngest of a half-dozen children born to ...
The History of Man
The History of Man Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395566 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Book 2 in the City of Kings trilogy, inclu...
Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Linden Hills (Contemporary American Fiction Series) Gloria Naylor 9780140088298 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A powerful look at an affluent black community from Gloria Naylor (1950-2016)...
Every Woman I’Ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers
Every Woman I’Ve Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers Shay Youngblood, Audre Lorde, and others 9781573440301 Nonfiction Cleis Press Cleis Press "I have wanted to find my mother in every woman ...
A Protest History of the United States
A Protest History of the United States Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780807010815 Nonfiction Brown Books Publishing Group Brown Books Publishing Group Winner of the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards...
Race, Law, and American Society, 1607 to Present
Race, Law, and American Society, 1607 to Present Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780415522144 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work, tracing the histor...
My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories
My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories Carol Taylor Book Review My Lovely Golden Rose is a poetry and poetic prose collection of Carrolyn Pichet’s pers...
Mama’s Boy
Mama’s Boy ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9781476714950 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. An AALBC.com Bestselling Book for May/June 2015 When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken ...
The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context
The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780981782508 Nonfiction Law and Policy Group Press Law and Policy Group Press This unique, easily portable version of the ...
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts, 4th Edition
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts, 4th Edition Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9781785274886 Nonfiction Anthem Press Anthem Press The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts is a masterful approac...
The Theory of Flight
The Theory of Flight Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395412 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Book 1 in the City of Kings trilogy A...
Dynasty: The Dark Side of Money III
Dynasty: The Dark Side of Money III d. E. Rogers 9780692869925 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books In the series finale, self-made billionaire and fashion designer, Gloria Dean is in crisis as her daughter ...
The Dark Side of Money
The Dark Side of Money d. E. Rogers 9780970880864 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books As the perfectly-manicured matriarch of an African American fashion empire, Gloria Dean is the kind of woman who wants i...
If There Be Pain
If There Be Pain Gloria Mallette 9780758211590 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From acclaimed author Gloria Mallette comes a story of a man living his wildest dreams and confronting his wo...
Appearances
Appearances Gloria Oden 9780935086348 Poetry Saru Press Saru Press The sweetest insanity is love. This is a love story: Gloria Oden, now 80, her life, her loves, and the rediscovery of love. The young...
The Quality of Mercy
The Quality of Mercy Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395863 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press Winner, Outstanding Fiction Book Prize, National Arts Merit Awards (Zimbabwe) Longlist, 2023 Sunday Time...
City of Kings Trilogy Bundle
City of Kings Trilogy Bundle Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781960803009 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, comes the complete collection of h...
1996
1996 Gloria Naylor 9780883782781 Fiction Third World Press Third World Press This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operat...
Provenance: A Novel
Provenance: A Novel Donna Drew Sawyer 9780991614325 Fiction Creative Cache Creative Cache A vivid portrait of a family’s determination to live undefined by race. Hank Whitaker longed for more than ...
Dream Street
Dream Street Tricia Elam Walker 9780525581109 Fiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • FIVE STARRED REVIEWS ...
The Portable Feminist Reader
The Portable Feminist Reader Roxane Gay 9780143110392 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive ...
Downfall of the Civil Rights Department (CRD): A Survivor’s Guide, When Someone is not Playing Fair
Downfall of the Civil Rights Department (CRD): A Survivor’s Guide, When Someone is not Playing Fair Carol Denise Mitchell 9798252278711 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published #1 N...
South End Press
South End Press Troy Johnson Article http://southendpress.org/ South End Press is an independent, nonprofit, collectively-run book publisher with more than 250 titles in ...
Cables to Rage
Cables to Rage Audre Lorde 9780903779098 Poetry Paul Breman Paul Breman Her second volume, Cables to Rage (1970), which was mainly written during her tenure at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, address...
Best Lesbian Erotica 2003
Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 Cheryl Clarke 9781573441612 Fiction Cleis Press Cleis Press 24 sex stories by some of the best-known lesbian authors writing erotica today. Past books include notables such a...
Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith 0000000040375377 Barbara Smith, born 1946, is a renowned author, activist, and scholar. Known for her work on race, class, sexuality, and gender, she has co-authored key texts on Black ...
The Honey Well
The Honey Well Gloria Mallette 9780758204684 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Money has put Arnell Rayford’s mother, Esther, exactly where she’s always to be—-comfortably ensconced in t...
Promises to Keep: A Novel (Strivers Row)
Promises to Keep: A Novel (Strivers Row) Gloria Mallette 9780375757440 Fiction Villard Villard New from the author of the national bestseller Shades of Jade: a story about the tragic loss of a son, th...
Getting to Happy
Getting to Happy Terry McMillan 9780451233349 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan’s exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Wa...
Getting To Happy
Getting To Happy Terry McMillan 9780670022045 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fi...
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780367482190 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969...
Living, Breathing Lies
Living, Breathing Lies Gloria Mallette 9780967878928 Fiction Gemini Press Gemini Press Breathe a lie, live a lie. That’s what Nadirah Lewis learns when she uncovers the stunning lie she was forced to ...
Distant Lover
Distant Lover Gloria Mallette 9780758204714 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. For thirty-seven-year-old Tandi Crawford, the past is a double-edged sword. On one side is the agonizing myst...
Reformatory
Reformatory Tananarive Due 9781982188351 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. “You’re in for a treat…one of those books you can’t put down…Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King ...
Country Place: A Novel
Country Place: A Novel Ann Petry 9780063260092 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1947“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stori...
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies Patricia Bell-Scott, Gloria T. Hull, and Barbara Smith 9781558618985 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random ...
What’s Done In The Dark
What’s Done In The Dark Gloria Mallette 9780758211576 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. From the moment Celeste Dawson was born, her big sister, Katrina, had it in for her. And as much as...
Suzette D. Harrison
Suzette D. Harrison NONE Suzette D. Harrison, a west coast native, began her literary career in junior high school. Inspired by African American literary voices such as Gloria Naylor, Maya Angelou, A...
The Honey Well
The Honey Well Thumper Book Review I had never made a wish like this before. Believe me; I don't harbor any gender bending, transsexual fantasies. But, after reading Gloria Mallette’s lat...
It’s “More Than a Game”
It’s “More Than a Game” Kam Williams Interview The Gospel According to King James Photo Credit: Steven Williams LeBron Raymone James was born on December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio to Gloria James...
Bailey’s Cafe
Bailey’s Cafe Gloria Naylor 9780679748212 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Set in a diner where the food isn’t very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling nove...
Shades of Jade: A Novel (Strivers Row)
Shades of Jade: A Novel (Strivers Row) Gloria Mallette 9780375757433 Fiction Villard Villard Terrance. Louis. Wayne. Eric. Marissa had been warned: One of these days you’re gonna mess with the wrong w...
Shared Secrets of Elder Sisters: Who Prove that Age is Just a Number
Shared Secrets of Elder Sisters: Who Prove that Age is Just a Number Betty J. Dopson 9780979597213 Nonfiction Betty Dopson Betty Dopson Sister Betty Dopson has written her first book. Or maybe I shoul...
Sassy
Sassy Gloria Mallette 9780967878935 Fiction Gemini Press Gemini Press A successful romance novelist, Sassy is a woman looking to fulfill her own fantasy. When the man of her dreams step right out of t...
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780810896246 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield The Voting Rights War tells the story...
Guiou: The Other Blacks, Second Edition
Guiou: The Other Blacks, Second Edition Gloria J. Arnold 9781627461474 Nonfiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC The Afro-Jamaicans were ""invited"" to Guatemala to work for Unit...
Mama Day
Mama Day Gloria Naylor 9780679721819 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Coc...
The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor 9780140066906 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end...
The Men of Brewster Place: A Novel
The Men of Brewster Place: A Novel Gloria Naylor 9780786884056 Fiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Naylor returns to the fictional neighborhood, this time focusing on the men behind the women who inh...
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality Gloria Wade-Gayles 9780807009352 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press My Soul Is a Witness is a powerful collection of poetry, prose, reflectio...
When We Practice To Deceive
When We Practice To Deceive Gloria Mallette 9780870678653 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. Mass Market Paperback
The Ties That Bind
The Ties That Bind Gloria Oden 9780879561000 Poetry Olivant Press Olivant Press
Resurrections
Resurrections Gloria Oden 9780879560713 Poetry Olivant Press Olivant Press Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1979
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) Audre Lorde 9780195341485 Nonfiction Oxford University P...
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 ...
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...
Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams 9781469680132 Nonfiction University of North Car...
Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems
Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780688156985 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni’s u...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution Peniel E. Joseph 9781541675896 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of ...
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity Marc Lamont Hill 9780807749609 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College ’Hill’s book is a beautifully writt...
Sunday Always Comes!: A Message of Hope and Resilience
Sunday Always Comes!: A Message of Hope and Resilience Justin J Pearson 9780063452251 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Sunday Always Comes! is the inspiring and deeply personal memoir of Tennessee Sta...
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman John Conyers III 9780063336810 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, t...
Whose Song?: And Other Stories
Whose Song?: And Other Stories Thomas Glave 9780872863750 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers Author Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into ...
2020: The Year That Changed America
2020: The Year That Changed America Kevin Powell 9781735199740 Nonfiction Bowker Bowker 2020 is a year we shall never forget-not America, not the world. The tragic death of Kobe Bryant and his dau...
Aliko Mohammad Dangote: The Biography of the Richest Black Person in the World
Aliko Mohammad Dangote: The Biography of the Richest Black Person in the World Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo and Margie Marie Neal 9781618978851 Nonfiction Strategic Book Publishing Strategic Book Publishi...
Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell NONE Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a cha...
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith 0000000110491657 Anna Deavere Smith, born in 1950, is a renowned actress, playwright, author, and professor. Famous for her roles in 'The West Wing' and 'Nurse Jackie', she's also ...
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke NONE Tarana Burke, founder of the “me too” movement, is dedicated to combating sexual violence and systemic issues affecting marginalized communities. She started her activism in the 198...
Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations bell hooks 9781685890797 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s...
I Promise
I Promise Lebron James 9780062971067 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A perfect BACK-TO-SCHOOL tool for students and teachers who need an encouraging boost...
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy Deborah Davis 9781419700590 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams The Oprah Winfrey Show came to an end on May 25, 2011, after 25 years on television...
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture)
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture) Cheryl A. Wall 9780807829271 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Caroli...
The Shade of My Own Tree
The Shade of My Own Tree Sheila Williams 9780345465177 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Beloved author Sheila Williams beautifully captures the bittersweet humor and vivid adventures of women wh...
Men We Cherish
Men We Cherish Brooke Stephens 9780385485326 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for...
bell hooks
bell hooks 000000011072449X “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or someone else’s ignorance.” bell hooks (Sep. 25, 1952 –...