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Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson MULTIPLE Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson are award-winning authors known for their impactful works. Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, is renowned ...
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey MULTIPLE Oprah Winfrey is a renowned media executive, actress, talk show host, and philanthropist. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and...
Renée Watson
Renée Watson 0000000060818307 Renée Watson, acclaimed author of young adult and children's literature, uses art to help youth deal with trauma and discuss social issues. Known for her book “This Side...
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson 9780593307359 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequenc...
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones 0000000454752515 Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, is known for her work on racial injustice and the 1619 Project. A MacArthur Genius Gr...
Gayl Jones
Gayl Jones 0000000109336115 “Gayl Jones is an exceptionally talented writer.” —Robert Fleming Gayl Jones was born on November 23, 1949, in Lexington, Kentucky. Her father Franklin J...
The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback)
The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback) Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780063020016 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest blac...
Hannah Crafts
Hannah Crafts 0000000057115061 Hannah Bond, known as Hannah Crafts, was an African-American writer and ex-slave who escaped to the North and wrote The Bondwoman’s Narrative. Settling in New Jersey, B...
The Inheritance
The Inheritance Rochelle Alers 9781496725721 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "A novel that resembles female bonding romance series like The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts… . Capitalizing on ...
The Inheritance
The Inheritance Rochelle Alers 9781496707307 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ passionate, uplifting new series, four friends from very different backgro...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
Lisa Watson
Lisa Watson NONE Lisa Watson is a national bestselling author based in Washington D.C., known for her work in diverse romance genres. Her debut novel was nominated for Best Contemporary Fiction, and ...
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593232255 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and a...
Jamal Eric Watson
Jamal Eric Watson NONE Dr. Jamal Watson is an award-winning author and lecturer, known for his biography on Al Sharpton. He's a senior writer for Diverse Issues in Higher Education, with work feature...
Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan MULTIPLE Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan are renowned authors known for their contribution to literature. Watson, a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author...
C.J. Watson
C.J. Watson NONE Former NBA star, C.J. Watson, penned a children's book in 2020, “C.J.'s Big Dream”, inspiring kids to work hard for their dreams. The book, potentially a series, follows a young boy ...
Watch Us Rise
Watch Us Rise Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan 9781547600083 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing "This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim ...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
What Momma Left Me
What Momma Left Me Renée Watson 9781547601738 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Rediscover New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Ren&e...
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America Kali Nicole Gross 9780190241216 Fiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press Shortly after a d...
Amber Ren
Amber Ren NONE Amber Ren is a skilled visual development artist, known for her expertise in background paint, color styling, and illustrating children's books. Amber Ren is a visual development artis...
Hannah Durkin
Hannah Durkin NONE Dr. Hannah Durkin, a historian specializing in transatlantic slavery and African diasporic art, holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and has served at several universities. She advise...
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780063019904 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, on...
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The Bondwoman’s Narrative Hannah Crafts 9780446690294 Nonfiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group Tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young slave working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, who ru...
Kim Jones
Kim Jones 0000000385386573 Kimberly Jones, an educator at Lawton Public Schools since 1998, is committed to community improvement. She has initiated numerous programs including “The Colors of Life,” ...
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding Kim Watson 9781506491134 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media As seen through the eyes of photographer Kim Watson, who has spent three ye...
Kim Watson
Kim Watson NONE Kim Watson is a versatile artist who has worked with top entertainment platforms like Disney and Warner Brothers, earning MTV, Soul Train and NAACP accolades for his impactful work in...
Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman
Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman MULTIPLE Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman are esteemed authors known for their captivating works. Their unique storytelling style and profound th...
Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson
Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson MULTIPLE "Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Li...
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watso...
Solomon Jones
Solomon Jones NONE Solomon Jones is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and community advocate who overcame adversity to succeed. He began his career writing articles while living in a sh...
Timothy B. Francis, Lisa Jones Johnson, Walter C. Jones, and Lisa Fairchild
Timothy B. Francis, Lisa Jones Johnson, Walter C. Jones, and Lisa Fairchild MULTIPLE Authors Timothy B. Francis, Lisa Jones Johnson, Walter C. Jones, and Lisa Fairchild are recognized for their indiv...
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey 9781950785810 Nonfiction Hearst Home Hearst Magazines “When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring conne...
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson Renée Watson 9780063219991 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson and quilt artist Sherry Sh...
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Carole Boyce-Davies 9780822341161 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Left of Karl Marx, Carole...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones 0000000031494569 Patricia Spears Jones, born in Arkansas, is the 2024 New York State Poet Laureate, a Jackson Poetry Prize laureate, and a cultural activist. An esteemed poet, p...
Van Jones
Van Jones 0000000120304157 Van Jones, a Yale-educated attorney, is a best-selling author, environmental activist, and White House policy advisor. Known as a social entrepreneur, CNN political contrib...
Clarence B. Jones
Clarence B. Jones 0000000036182118 AALBC mourns the passing of Clarence B. Jones Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones (January 8, 1931 – May 22, 2026) the lawyer who served as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s pe...
Leslie Jones
Leslie Jones 0000000447812524 Leslie Jones, born in 1967, is an award-nominated actress known for her work on Saturday Night Live and HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death. She's been recognized as one...
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Charlotte Watson Sherman 0000000067613072 Charlotte Watson Sherman, a Seattle-born author, is known for her novels, children's books, and short fiction collection. Formerly a librarian, her works inc...
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding Clarence V. Reynolds Book Review Have you ever come upon or passed a homeless/unhoused person and experienced an emotion that tugged at y...
Isa Watson
Isa Watson NONE Isa Watson, a chemist and data scientist turned entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Squad, a social app that enhances communication amongst friends. Aiming to make a global impact...
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant 9781960171030 Fiction Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Harlem, Now. The mos...
Jesse Joshua Watson
Jesse Joshua Watson NONE Jesse Joshua Watson is an acclaimed illustrator known for his work on the New York Times best-selling Hank Zipzer series and G. Neri's Ghetto Cowboy and Chess Rumble. He resi...
Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson
Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson MULTIPLE Barrington Watson is a renowned Jamaican artist and author of 'Shades of Grey', a collection of autobiographical stories complemented by his own illustr...
Ruby Rene Always Gets Her Way
Ruby Rene Always Gets Her Way Ashley Iman 9780593858882 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A sequel to Ruby René Had So Much to Say that explores the importance of listening, making new friend...
The Hands of Love
The Hands of Love Omar Scott 9781432734022 Fiction Outskirts Press Outskirts Press The Hands of Love Everyone has a dark side and one never quite knows just how dark it can get until they re pushed to...
The Red Queen Dies: A Mystery (Detective Hannah Mccabe)
The Red Queen Dies: A Mystery (Detective Hannah Mccabe) Frankie Y. Bailey 9780312641757 Nonfiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Frankie Bailey introduces readers to a fabulous new protagonist and an ...
Mama Stalks the Past
Mama Stalks the Past Nora Deloach 9780553106626 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House Mama’s passion is digging up bits and pieces until she’s solved a mystery. Long ago she decided that if we could ge...
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Hannah V. Sawyerr NONE Hannah V. Sawyerr was recognized as the Youth Poet Laureate of Baltimore in 2016. Her debut novel in verse All the Fighting Parts was recognized as a William C. Morris Debut A...
Terry Wells-Jones
Terry Wells-Jones NONE Terry Wells-Jones, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin, is a retired businesswoman and one of the first Black models of the 1960s. She broke barriers as the first woman...
Operation Sisterhood
Operation Sisterhood Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780593379929 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together...
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America Ibi Zoboi 9780062698728 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acc...
All the Blues in the Sky
All the Blues in the Sky Renée Watson 9781547605897 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendsh...
Ways to Build Dreams
Ways to Build Dreams Renée Watson 9781547610181 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling ...
This Side of Home
This Side of Home Renée Watson 9781619639300 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban YA debut about sisters, friends, and what it m...
Skin & Bones (paperback)
Skin & Bones (paperback) Renée Watson 9780316570893 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. ...
What Momma Left Me
What Momma Left Me Renée Watson 9781599907048 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing Serenity knows she is good at keeping secrets, and she’s got a whole lifetime’s worth of the...
Some Places More Than Others
Some Places More Than Others Renée Watson 9781681191089 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing RENÉE WATSON is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author ...
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones 9781501132742 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. >From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-...
Gregory S. Jones
Gregory S. Jones NONE Gregory S. Jones, co-founder of “The Paper Tiger” and co-author of “The Root Of All Evil,” plans to educate African-American communities about nationality and advocate for repar...
Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones 0000000365991477 Saeed Jones, award-winning author of 'Prelude to Bruise', is known for his work at BuzzFeed as an LGBT and Culture editor, as well as co-host of AM to DM. Born in Memphis...
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...
Actress Tamala Jones The “Castle” Interview
Actress Tamala Jones The “Castle” Interview Kam Williams Interview Tamala Jones The “Castle” Interview Tamala Jones has created a varied career based on her prodigious talent, working steadily...
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348036 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing There is no one movie, song, or book that will make these troubled times d...
The Birdcatcher
The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones 9780807029947 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature.” —Imani Per...
Fearless Jones
Fearless Jones Thumper Book Review After 5 years, Walter Mosley has returned to the mystery scene with a new pair of crime solvers for his novel Fearless Jones. It’s as if Mosley had never said...
Keeping Up With The Jones
Keeping Up With The Jones Solomon Jones 9780975521908 Fiction Sola Productions, Inc. Sola Productions, Inc. Bernie Mac meets Dave Barry in Keeping Up With The Jones — a humorous look at marriage, fami...
Yara Mekawi, Natalie Watson-Singleton, and Danyelle Dawson
Yara Mekawi, Natalie Watson-Singleton, and Danyelle Dawson MULTIPLE Yara Mekawi, PhD (pictured center), is a licensed psychologist, co-founder of the DEAR Project, and assistant professor at the Uni...
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy Bruce Watson 9780143119432 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A majestic history of the summer of ’64, whic...
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency Jamal Eric Watson 9781506495163 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it’s time we start treating ...
Ways to Make Sunshine
Ways to Make Sunshine Renée Watson 9781547600564 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Ren�e Watson comes the first book i...
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326545 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins In this second book in the middle-grade mystery series based on the popular Pinna podcast, super sleuth ...
Opal Watson: Private Eye
Opal Watson: Private Eye Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326491 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins Opal Watson, Private Eye introduces an exciting new middle grade mystery series based on the popular original...
Interview with Danger
Interview with Danger Lisa Watson 9780999891704 Fiction Lisa Y Watson Lisa Y Watson When Sasha Lambert’s debut novel, The Passport Diaries, hits the bookstores it quickly becomes a bestseller. Her ex-...
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema Hannah Durkin 9780252084454 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Josephine Baker and Katherine...
All the Fighting Parts
All the Fighting Parts Hannah V. Sawyerr 9781419762611 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, Hannah V. Sawyerr’s All the Fighting Parts is an award-winning, sear...
Ruby René Had So Much to Say
Ruby René Had So Much to Say Ashley Iman 9780593618899 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A debut picture book about a curious student who finds herself in trouble for talking in class—even though sh...
Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing: Based on a Hallmark Channel Original Movie
Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing: Based on a Hallmark Channel Original Movie Lacey Baker 9781952210433 Fiction Two Lines Press Two Lines Press Welcome back to Evergreen, the town built on Ch...
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
Truth Is: A Novel in Verse Hannah V. Sawyerr 9781419776830 Fiction Amulet Books Abrams From the critically acclaimed author of All the Fighting Parts comes an empowering and defiant novel in verse in ...
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 9780063072992 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The ...
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story Hannah Weyer 9780385537322 Fiction Nan A. Talese Nan A. Talese Based on a true story, an impassioned and propulsive debut novel about a headstrong girl f...
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The Bondwoman’s Narrative Paige Turner Book Review In the 1850s a female slave owned by John Wheeler, a North Carolina plantation owner and minor government official, escaped and fled to freedom. Sh...
Kellie Jones
Kellie Jones 0000000076890717 Kellie Jones is an Associate Professor at Columbia University specializing in African American and African Diaspora artists, Latinx and Latin American Artists, and conte...
William Augustus Jones Jr.
William Augustus Jones Jr. 0000000021740789 William A. Jones Jr. (1934-2006) was a distinguished African-American minister and civil rights leader. An alumnus of the University of Kentucky and Crozer...
Alive at the End of the World
Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones 9781566896511 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author...
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together Van Jones 9780399180026 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of ...
God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited
God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited William Augustus Jones Jr. 9780817018221 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press At long last, the reissue of the classic book, God in the Ghetto by the late...
Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones 0000000109223233 Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at Holy Cross College and the University of Virginia. Known for h...
Erika Lynne Jones
Erika Lynne Jones NONE Erika Lynne Jones, a children's book author and illustrator, uses her work to celebrate culture and affirm children's worth. Known for “The Loud Librarian” and based in Dallas,...
Gayl Jones: The Language Of Voice And Freedom In Her Writings
Gayl Jones: The Language Of Voice And Freedom In Her Writings Casey Clabough 9780786433797 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland Gayl Jones is dedicated to the art of "verbal authenticity," stemming from her...
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview Kam Williams Interview Former Obama Green Czar Opines on the State of the "Carbon Nation" Anthony "Van" Jones and his twin sister, Angela, were born...
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374526 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negr...
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374243 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negro) model and...
Stephen Mack Jones
Stephen Mack Jones 000000050165955X Stephen Mack Jones is an acclaimed poet, playwright, and recipient of the Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship. After years in advertising, Jones now resides...