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Ice–T and Douglas Century
Ice–T and Douglas Century MULTIPLE Ice-T and Douglas Century are prolific figures in the entertainment industry. Ice-T, a Grammy-winning rapper and actor, is best known for his role on “Law & Order: ...
Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century
Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century MULTIPLE Ice-T, Spike, and Douglas Century are renowned individuals known for their contributions in music, film, and literature respectively, each leaving a signifi...
Douglas E. McIntosh
Douglas E. McIntosh NONE Douglas E. McIntosh, a New York-born writer, holds degrees in Finance and History from Pace University. With a background in banking and financial analysis, including a stint...
Earl Douglas, Jr.
Earl Douglas, Jr. MULTIPLE Earl Douglas, Jr. is a key figure in the music industry, renowned for his role with the Black Rock Coalition (BRC). As an executive director, he supports and promotes diver...
Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burford
Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burford MULTIPLE Gabrielle Douglas, an Olympic gold medalist, and Michelle Burford, a bestselling author, are a dynamic duo in the world of literature, creating inspira...
Douglas Century
Douglas Century 0000000120268336 Douglas Century is a bestselling author and investigative journalist known for works such as Under and Alone, Hunting El Chapo, and Takedown. He was a 2003 Edgar Awar...
Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney 0000000038213846 Douglas Kearney, a renowned poet and professor, is known for his works addressing race and history. His first book, “Fear, Some,” was published in 2006, followed by o...
Kelly Brown Douglas
Kelly Brown Douglas 0000000042477422 The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas was named Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology at Union in Sep...
Douglas S. Reed
Douglas S. Reed NONE Douglas S. Reed wins the 2020 BookLife Fiction Prize Douglas S. Reed, a Brooklyn-based screenwriter/novelist, has vast experience in the motion picture industry, including working...
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem Mitchell L.H. Douglas 9781597091404 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Dou...
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson 0000000139704329 Georgia Douglas Johnson, born September 10, 1880, was an influential African-American poet, pioneering female playwright, and key participant in the Harlem Re...
Barbara C. Harris with Kelly Brown Douglas
Barbara C. Harris with Kelly Brown Douglas MULTIPLE Barbara C. Harris and Kelly Brown Douglas are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in literature. They are celebrated for the...
Buck Studies
Buck Studies Douglas Kearney 9780986437373 Poetry Fence Books Fence Books "[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it mean...
Mess and Mess and
Mess and Mess and Douglas Kearney 9781934819517 Poetry Noemi Press Noemi Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it’s not to fl...
Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox
Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox MULTIPLE Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in literature. Their work is highly appreciated for its depth...
Andreia Chavis-Douglas
Andreia Chavis-Douglas NONE Andreia Chavis-Douglas, a native of Washington, DC, is an artist, professor, and former graphic artist at the Washington Post. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Education...
Gabrielle Douglas
Gabrielle Douglas NONE Gabrielle Douglas, born 1995, is a celebrated gymnast known for her historic achievements at the 2012 London Olympics. She's the first African-American and woman of color to wi...
Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen MULTIPLE Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
Simone Douglas
Simone Douglas NONE Simone Douglas is a seasoned author with exceptional expertise in digital marketing. She has authored multiple best-selling books and offers valuable insights into the world of so...
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective Kelly Brown Douglas 9781570752421 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books Part One determines why sexuality has become a "taboo" issue for t...
The Black Christ: 25th Anniversary Edition
The Black Christ: 25th Anniversary Edition Kelly Brown Douglas 9781626983168 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books In this classic work, first published in 1994, Kelly Brown Douglas offers a compelling p...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon 9780385722704 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this groundbreaking historica...
What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls Kelly Brown Douglas 9781570756092 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books This book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas’s students:...
Black Rock Volume 1
Black Rock Volume 1 Earl Douglas, Jr. 9781457995873 Nonfiction Blurb Blurb Photographer Earl Douglas has been a part of the Black Rock scene since 1988. A longtime supporter and current Executive Dire...
The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson Georgia Douglas Johnson 9780783800387 Poetry G. K. Hall & Company Gale lxxxii/448 pp. 8vo, cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
Split Decision: Life Stories
Split Decision: Life Stories Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century 9781982148775 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir...
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris Biba Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris Biba Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America Douglas Century 9780063014954 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Bestselling author Douglas Cent...
Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States
Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States Elijah Anderson and Douglas Massey 9780871540553 Nonfiction Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage Foundation In 1899 the great African...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
Hallelujah, Anyhow!: A Memoir
Hallelujah, Anyhow!: A Memoir Barbara C. Harris with Kelly Brown Douglas 9781640650893 Nonfiction Church Publishing Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI) A role model tells her story—and that of the na...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400337019 Nonfiction Harper Select HarperCollins “A fast-p...
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Douglas Brinkley 9780061124235 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins In the span of five violent hours on August 29, ...
To Journey Home (a short story)
To Journey Home (a short story) Douglas E. McIntosh Article COPYRIGHT DOUGLAS E. MCINTOSH Akua screamed and drew her legs inward, while at the same time, flailing wi...
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (Audiobook)
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (Audiobook) Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen 9798200940172 Poetry Blackstone Audiobooks Blackstone Publishing The intellectual and cul...
Mycroft and Sherlock
Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785659256 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is...
Madam Fate
Madam Fate Marcia Douglas 9781569471340 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Women of Jamaica with magical bonds to the worlds of Nature and spirits and to each other. Using a series of voices, Marcia Doug...
Raising the Bar
Raising the Bar Kam Williams Book Review “Gabrielle Douglas is the first African-American and first woman of color from any nation to win an Olympic gold medal in the individual gymnastics ...
Patter
Patter Douglas Kearney 9781597095808 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is ...
Raising The Bar
Raising The Bar Gabrielle Douglas 9780310740704 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins After competing in the 2012 London Olympics and winning two gold medals, Gabrielle Douglas’s life changed forever … but...
Gabby Douglas The “Raising the Bar” Interview
Gabby Douglas The “Raising the Bar” Interview Kam Williams Interview Gymnast Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas was born in Virginia Beach on December 31st, 1995. At the 2012 London Summer O...
Grace, Gold, And Glory My Leap Of Faith
Grace, Gold, And Glory My Leap Of Faith Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burford 9780310740612 Nonfiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle ...
Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon 0000000040628274 Doug Blackmon, a Mississippi native, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and chair of the Miller Center Forum at the University of Virginia. He's a correspondent f...
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter Kelly Brown Douglas 9781626984455 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books How do we really know that God cares when Black people are still getting kille...
Sho
Sho Douglas Kearney 9781950268153 Poetry Wave Books Wave Books Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating th...
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant Kelly Brown Douglas 9780230116818 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Blues is absolutely vital to black theological reflection and to t...
Child of Gilead
Child of Gilead Douglas S. Reed 9780947481872 Fiction The Hurricane Group The Hurricane Group Winner of the 2020 BookLife Fiction Prize “Take the road less traveled, my son. Always. No exceptions.”...
Elijah Anderson and Douglas Massey
Elijah Anderson and Douglas Massey MULTIPLE Sure, I would be glad to help. But it seems you've forgotten to provide the author's bio that you want me to summarize. Could you please provide it?
The Black Automaton
The Black Automaton Douglas Kearney 9781934200285 Poetry Fence Books Fence Books "Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ’mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ … These poems...
Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) Marcia Douglas 9781900715287 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in J...
Grace
Grace Kam Williams Book Review “Gymnastics is not my passion anymore. I want to get famous off of running track, or I want to try dancing, or become a singer. I can get a job at Chi...
Garden’s Corner: A Novel
Garden’s Corner: A Novel Douglas S. Reed 9780965727242 Fiction Kataza Books Kataza Books Book by Reed, Douglas S.
Douglas Manuel
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Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-From South Central to Hollywood
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-From South Central to Hollywood Ice–T and Douglas Century 9780345523297 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House He’s a hip-hop icon credited with single...
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox 9780486409115 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications An eminent German explorer, ethnologist, and authority on p...
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne 9780810141544 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Furious Flower: Seeding the ...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781416534884 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance pro...
James T. Hollin, Jr.
James T. Hollin, Jr. MULTIPLE James T. Hollin, Jr. is a University of Arizona graduate, former USAF pilot, and retired Delta Air Lines captain. He pivoted his career to law, earning a Juris Doctor de...
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Marcia Douglas 9781845233327 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A much-awaited novel from an award-winning writer a reggae track...
No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC Brian Gilmore 9781647126551 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown University Press A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, r...
Testify
Testify Douglas Manuel 9781597090452 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press A brave, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race, masculinity, re...
Chuck D
Chuck D 0000000368402543 Chuck D, born Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, is a renowned hip-hop artist, social activist, and multimedia producer. Best known as the leader of Public Enemy, he has significantl...
Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells
Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells Marcia Douglas 9781845230166 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her...
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company Paul Carter Harrison and Cus Edwards 9780822955603 Fiction University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press This anthology celebrates more th...
Garden’s Corner
Garden’s Corner Douglas S. Reed 9780947480929 Fiction The Hurricane Group The Hurricane Group Little Speedy is back! Twenty-five years after his debut, Little Speedy Copeland returns to share his e...
Who’s Jim Hines?
Who’s Jim Hines? Jean Alicia Elster 9780814334027 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-ye...
Heart of a Woman and Other Poems
Heart of a Woman and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9780404113957 Poetry AMS Press AMS Press This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important histor...
The Thick of Things
The Thick of Things J. L. Campbell 9781940636580 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press Life has a way of going awry when you least expect it, and Khalila Skyers learns this lesson the hard w...
Packing Heat (The Blue-Collar Lover Series)
Packing Heat (The Blue-Collar Lover Series) Zuri Day 9781617734274 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "Day delivers a lively romance." —RT Book ReviewsNothing invigorates the five Carter broth...
Marry Your Baby Daddy
Marry Your Baby Daddy Maryann Reid 9780312341978 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers When their unassuming Grandma June dies, Giovanna, Keyah, and Fatima are shocked to learn she had sav...
Vicki L. Hubbard
Vicki L. Hubbard NONE Vicki L. Hubbard, a Montgomery Alabama native, is a published author inspired by motherhood and life's struggles and successes. Having graduated from Apollo College as a Compute...
Supreme Justice: A Novel Of Suspense
Supreme Justice: A Novel Of Suspense Gary Hardwick 9780380818839 Fiction HarperTorch HarperCollins Young U.S. attorney Marshall Jackson is handed the biggest case of his career when Supreme Court Just...
Hipology: Horizons in Poetry
Hipology: Horizons in Poetry Ron Alle and Stella Crews 9780940713079 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Includes the following Poems: "Doors Of Perception" by Allen Adkins "No. 125: ...
Michelle Burford
Michelle Burford NONE Michelle Burford, founding editor of O, The Oprah Magazine, is renowned for writing best-selling books and memoirs of notable figures like Gabby Douglas, Toni Braxton, and Miche...
Someone Took They Tongues
Someone Took They Tongues Douglas Kearney 9780990661252 Poetry Subito Press Subito Press Poetry. Music. "Kearney’s collection of opera libretti explodes with verbal inge-nuity, graphically lunging out...
Fear, Some
Fear, Some Douglas Kearney 9781597090711 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press Stealing tropes from militancy to minstrelsy, Fear,some broadcasts from the slippery moments when personal, national, racial...
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781619635548 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A 2017 New York Public Library Best Kids Book of the Year ...
Do You Like Pancakes?
Do You Like Pancakes? Andreia Chavis-Douglas B01188MFUA Fiction BookSurge Publishing On-Demand Publishing LLC This colorfully illustrated children’s book is about a young boy who loves to eat pancak...
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies And The Justice Of God
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies And The Justice Of God Kelly Brown Douglas 9781626981096 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books
Bronze: A Book of Verse
Bronze: A Book of Verse Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781513290683 Poetry Mint Editions West Margin Press This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond...
The Deserted Daughter: A Comedy
The Deserted Daughter: A Comedy Georgia Douglas Johnson 9780332120348 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Deserted Daughter: A ComedyDon. Ye wad nae acknowledge her; wad nae fee h...
Are We Having Fun Yet?: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Sex
Are We Having Fun Yet?: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Sex Marcia Douglas 9780786861972 Fiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Offers female readers advice on enhancing their sex lives, addressing su...
The Heart of Things
The Heart of Things J. L. Campbell 9789768307477 Fiction The Writers’ Suite The Writers’ Suite After a year-long, Jamaica-Miami romance, Douglas Blythe succeeds in putting a ring on Khalila Skyers’s f...
Toronto
Toronto Marcia Douglas 9781562614294 Fiction Rick Steves/Avalon Travel Perseus Books
Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City
Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City Carla L. Peterson 9780300181746 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Part detective tale, part...
Favorite 50 African American Authors and Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century
Favorite 50 African American Authors and Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com’s Favorite 50 African American Authorsand Favorite 100 Titles...
Banished
Banished Kam Williams banish32.jpg Film Review Jaw-Dropping Documentary Revisits America’s Ethnic Cleansing of Blacks between Emancipation and Early 20th Century Banished: How ...
REAL EYEZ: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Popular Culture
REAL EYEZ: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Popular Culture Anthony Asadullah Samad 9780972388047 Nonfiction Kabili Press Kabili Press In his latest work, bestselling Author/Columnist/Race S...
Uncle Yah Yah Parts I & II 21st Century Man of Wisdom
Uncle Yah Yah Parts I & II 21st Century Man of Wisdom Alvin Romer Book Review Author Al Dickens gives us his unique brand of wisdom told as by Uncle Yah Yah, a storyteller and wise sage spewing amus...
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century Gerald Horne 9781583678725 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Month...
The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise
The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen 9780743291002 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Finally, a thoughtful (and though...
The Next American Century: How The U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise
The Next American Century: How The U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen 9780743290999 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Finally, a thoughtful (and tho...
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Revised)
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Revised) Ira Berlin 9780674016248 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American sl...
Jitney (1970s Century Cycle)
Jitney (1970s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9781468314496 Fiction The Overlook Press The Overlook Press Rereleased in time for its first Broadway run, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson’s 10-play cycle ...