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Think Black: A Memoir
Think Black: A Memoir Clyde W. Ford 9780062890573 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Finalist for a 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winni...
Think Black
Think Black Clyde W. Ford 9780062890566 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, t...
Bernette Ford
Bernette Ford 0000000038486553 Bernette Ford, founder of COLOR-BRIDGE BOOKS, was a renowned children's book packager and consultant, and an advocate for diversity in children's literature. She held s...
Ashley C. Ford
Ashley C. Ford NONE Ashley C. Ford is a renowned writer, host, and educator based in Indianapolis. She's hosted popular podcasts and shows like The Chronicles of Now, Lovecraft Country Radio, 112BK, ...
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford MULTIPLE JR and Vanessa Ford are renowned advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, particularly for transgender youth. Featured in major publications and part of the Human Rights Campaig...
The Black Agenda
The Black Agenda Glen Ford 9781682192900 Nonfiction OR Books OR Books Understanding Black politics is key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. And over the past 40 y...
George Ford
George Ford 0000000100607572 George Ford, a prolific children's book illustrator, has contributed to over 30 books. He is a Coretta Scott King Award recipient for his work on 'Ray Charles' and 'The S...
Clyde W. Ford
Clyde W. Ford 0000000109297208 Clyde W. Ford, NYC-born author of 13 fiction and non-fiction works, is also a psychotherapist, mythologist, and public speaker. He's received numerous accolades includi...
The Black Agenda
The Black Agenda Robert Fleming Book Review Who was Glen Ford? If you ask that question of some of the best critical thinkers in the Black community, they would say Ford was one of the most capabl...
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...
t’ai freedom ford
t’ai freedom ford NONE t’ai freedom ford is a NYC high school English teacher, Cave Canem Fellow, and award-winning poet. She has been published in numerous reviews and anthologies, and is an editor ...
S.M. Ford
S.M. Ford NONE S.M. Ford is an award-winning African American author and alumna of Howard University. She's dedicated to community service through Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Order of the Eastern Star....
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford MULTIPLE Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford are renowned authors with a wealth of experience in children's literature and publishing. They are committed to ...
Glen Ford
Glen Ford 0000000368549254 Glen Ford (1949-2021) was the executive director of Black Agenda Report and co-founder of BlackCommentator.com. A Vietnam War veteran and Black Panther member, he had a pro...
La Verne Ford Wimberly
La Verne Ford Wimberly NONE Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly is a revered educator known for desegregating Tulsa schools and becoming the first interim African American female superintendent. Honored with ...
Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite
Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite MULTIPLE Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite are renowned authors and cultural historians, known for their significant contribu...
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul Tanisha C. Ford 9781469636139 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press From the civil rig...
& More Black
& More Black t’ai freedom ford 9780999501214 Poetry Augury Books Brooklyn Arts Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women’s Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2020 LAMBA Literary Awa...
AF.FORD Books
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AF.FORD Books
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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth Clyde W. Ford 9780063038523 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is m...
The Arsenal Of Democracy
The Arsenal Of Democracy A. J. Baime 9780544483873 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The story of the dramatic transformation of Detroit from "motortown" t...
Go Like Hell
Go Like Hell A. J. Baime 9780547336053 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt As told in the film Ford v. Ferrari, Go Like Hell transports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this ...
Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters
Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters Clyde W. Ford 9780865715905 Fiction New Society Publishers New Society Publishers Recreational boating is a pastime enjoyed by millions. Yet th...
Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production Of Hate
Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production Of Hate Neil Baldwin 9781586481636 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering indus...
Donna Ford
Donna Ford 0000000115111027 Donna Ford, Ph.D., is a distinguished author and acclaimed educational psychologist known for her significant contributions in the field of education. Donna Ford Ph.D.
Darnella Ford
Darnella Ford NONE Darnella Ford, a spoken-word artist based in Los Angeles, regularly performs her captivating works. Aside from performing, she's also engaged in writing her next novel. [2016] Darn...
A. G. Ford
A. G. Ford NONE A.G. Ford is a renowned illustrator, credited with New York Times bestsellers 'Barack', 'Michelle', and 'Goal!'. He resides in Dallas, Texas. A. G. Ford is the illustrator of the New ...
Juwanda G. Ford
Juwanda G. Ford NONE Juwanda G. Ford is the author of picture books and easy readers, including bestsellers. Juwanda G. Ford is the author of picture books and easy readers, including the bestselling...
Viola Ford Fletcher
Viola Ford Fletcher NONE ”Every day, I have lived through the massacre. While our country may forget this history, I cannot.” Viola Ford Fletcher, born in 1907, is a notable figure in Afri...
Tanisha C. Ford
Tanisha C. Ford 0000000394524085 Tanisha C. Ford, a renowned writer, researcher, and cultural critic, specializes in Black style/fashion history and social movements. Recognized as one of The Root's ...
Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words
Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words Viola Ford Fletcher 9781737168409 Nonfiction Mocha Media Mocha Media “Every day, I have lived throu...
My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style
My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style La Verne Ford Wimberly 9781400237746 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing After posting selfies in her Sunday best for fi...
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth Clyde W. Ford 9780063038516 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this, provocative, timely, and painstakingly researched book, ...
Calvin
Calvin JR Ford and Vanessa Ford 9780593108673 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In this joyful and impactful picture book, a transgender boy prepares for the firs...
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir Ashley C. Ford 9781250305978 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about ...
Twelve Days Of New York
Twelve Days Of New York Tonya Bolden 9781419705427 Fiction Abrams Books Abrams When a group of students wins a trip to New York City, accompanied by their teacher, they aren’t sure where to start. S...
Crave
Crave Darnella Ford 9780312304072 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Provocative, masterful and poetically written, Darnella Ford delivers an exceptional read. Kimberla Lawson Roby, be...
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford 9780940975231 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The 1st book to win a major award (The Benjamin Franklin Award) that was written ...
Tommie Thomas
Tommie Thomas NONE Tommie Lee Thomas, a determined individual of Cherokee Indian and African descent, overcame poverty and adversity to become a retired employee of Ford Motor Company, the City of De...
Rising
Rising Thumper Book Review Rising, Darnella Ford’s fictional debut is explosive. It is the story of a young girl who lives through a number of tragic occurrences. Rising hits the ground runni...
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America Eugene Robinson 9781982176716 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene...
7 Conversations to Freedom!: a manifesto
7 Conversations to Freedom!: a manifesto Walt Goodridge 9781481236461 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This book is part of The Integrated Life™ series. THE CONCEPT: "In the pursuit of ...
Freedom Train
Freedom Train Evelyn Coleman 9781442436527 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boy’s struggle to help freedom triumph over fe...
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience Carlyle Fielding Stewart, III 9780865436633 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Pr...
The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries
The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries Clyde W. Ford 9780738707853 Fiction Midnight Ink Llewellyn Publications Winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Best Mystery/Suspense/Thrille...
Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid’s Guide to the First Amendment
Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid’s Guide to the First Amendment Allison Matulli 9780762478385 Nonfiction Running Press Kids Hachette Book Group A nonpartisan, unbiased look at the First Amendment and h...
The Sovereign Psyche: Systems of Chattel Freedom vs. Self-Authentic Freedom
The Sovereign Psyche: Systems of Chattel Freedom vs. Self-Authentic Freedom Ezrah Aharone 9781524601355 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The Sovereign Psyche is not just the title of the book. ...
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback)
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback) Bernette Ford 9780823456932 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book A Junior Library ...
Uncle John’s City Garden
Uncle John’s City Garden Bernette Ford 9780823447862 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. How does this city garden grow? With help from L’il Sissy and her siblings—and love, love, love!...
The Mystery of the Missing Dog and Other Stories (Dive In Early Reader)
The Mystery of the Missing Dog and Other Stories (Dive In Early Reader) Bernette Ford 9781633221307 Fiction Seagrass Press Seagrass Press Check out the funny, smart, and brave ways the characters in T...
The Colored Car
The Colored Car Jean Alicia Elster 9780814336069 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who’s Jim Hines?...
Keena Ford and the Secret Journal Mix-Up
Keena Ford and the Secret Journal Mix-Up Melissa Thomson 9780142419373 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House The third book about the spunky second-grader, perfect for fans of Ramona Quimby, Junie...
Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-Up
Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-Up Melissa Thomson 9780142415726 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Keena Ford is so excited to go on a field trip to the United States Capitol with her second...
Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up
Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up Melissa Thomson 9780142413968 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Keena Ford doesn’t mean to be a troublemaker, but sometimes things get out of hand. Lucky...
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse Richard Thompson Ford 9780374245757 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers What do Katrina victims waiting for fede...
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America Laura Wexler 9780684868165 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. On that July evening in 1946, the leader counted aloud and th...
The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa
The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa Clyde W. Ford 9780553378689 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House In this remarkable book, Clyde Ford restores to us the lost treasu...
We Can All Get Along: 50 Steps You Can Take to Help End Racism
We Can All Get Along: 50 Steps You Can Take to Help End Racism Clyde W. Ford 9780440505709 Nonfiction Dell Publishing Penguin Random House This groundbreaking book shows how, working individually or w...
The Big Lie: Analysis of U.S. Press Coverage of the Grenada Invasion
The Big Lie: Analysis of U.S. Press Coverage of the Grenada Invasion Glen Ford 9780thebiglie Nonfiction International Organization of Journalists International Organization of Journalists The U.S. pou...
John O’Neal
John O’Neal NONE John O'Neal, co-founder of the Free Southern Theater and Junebug Productions, is a prominent playwright and activist. His work, which spans over 50 years, focuses on reviving the mem...
Barbara Summers
Barbara Summers 0000000083029183 Barbara Summers was an American author, educator, and former Ford model. She authored 'Skin Deep' (1998), a definitive work on black women in the modeling industry, b...
The Audacity of Hope
The Audacity of Hope Kam Williams Book Review ’There’s a school of thought that sees the Founding Fathers only as hypocrites and the Constitution only as a betrayal of the grand ideal...
Sweet Release: The Last Step to Black Freedom
Sweet Release: The Last Step to Black Freedom James Davison Jr. 9781591025580 Nonfiction Prometheus Books Prometheus Books In this assessment of the problems and potentials facing African Americans, D...
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell 9780767924900 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Ran...
Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice
Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice James Haskins 9780940975941 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. "The Freedom Rides were a brief moment in the civil rights movement, but they captured the atte...
The Burden Of Freedom
The Burden Of Freedom Myles Munroe 9781591856191 Nonfiction Charisma House Charisma Media The Burden Of Freedom explains that too many people use past oppression to remain mired in hatred and irrespon...
Freedom Riders (American Experience)
Freedom Riders (American Experience) Kam Williams images/Sprite%20117.jpg Film Review American Experience: Freedom Riders Click to buy via Amazon.com Number of discs: 1 Rated: NR (...
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 Thumper Book Review I decided to be ambitions this summer and read a number of non-fiction titles. I blame ...
Discovering Juneteenth: A History of Freedom
Discovering Juneteenth: A History of Freedom Aaron G. Jahi 9798988984641 Fiction Umoja Ink Press Unity Ink Press Discovering Juneteenth: A History of Freedom Discovering Juneteenth: A History of Fr...
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter Therese Taylor-Stinson 9781506478333 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter and leader in the Underg...
The American Dream is a Scam: A Guide to Financial Freedom for the Culture
The American Dream is a Scam: A Guide to Financial Freedom for the Culture Janelle Lenore 9798986768106 Nonfiction Lenore Consulting Lenore Consulting The American Dream is a Scam presents an idea tha...
Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC
Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green 9781647120818 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown Un...
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...
Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War
Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War Ric Murphy 9781496920515 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ric Murphy’s award-winning book, Freedom Road: An American Family Sag...
My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 9780300190595 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passiona...
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis 9780872865808 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis’ life and w...
Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 Ira Berlin 9781107405790 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambrid...
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project Troy Johnson Article The Literary Freedom Project (LFP) and Mosaic magazine are fighting to keep immersive reading, literary arts, expository writing...
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture Orlando Patterson 9780465025329 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. P...
Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad
Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 9781439126752 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Freedom by Any Means explains how Africa...
Contest Winner
Contest Winner Troy Johnson Article The AALBC in conjunction with BlackWords sponsored a contest for the "360� Degree A Revolution of Black Poets" event. The question posed was "What is the imp...
Hazelden Publishing
Hazelden Publishing Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Hazelden Publishing
I Like Hoops
I Like Hoops Juwanda G. Ford 9780823459582 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House The game is tied. Can we win? This book is perfect for kindergarteners and first graders to read on their own. A close...
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Tanisha C. Ford 9780063115712 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An engrossing social history of the un...
The Buy-In: A Novel
The Buy-In: A Novel Keela Buford 9798988020325 Fiction AF.FORD Books AF.FORD Books It was a love story… that wasn’t supposed to be a love story. And it started with Instagram. Now, it will end with...
Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music
Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music Cheryl Wills 9780063050983 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins For the first time the 25 most influential women gospel singers from Sister Ros...
Big Papa and the Time Machine
Big Papa and the Time Machine Daniel Bernstrom 9780062463319 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstro...
Memoirs Of The Senator’s Wife
Memoirs Of The Senator’s Wife S.M. Ford 9781733483100 Fiction Global Enterprises & Holdings Global Enterprises & Holdings Memoirs Of The Senator’s Wife is an international best selling saga of a dark ...
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite 9781597114431 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books “From Beyoncé to Barack Obama, it’s hard to thi...
Lincoln’s Paramour
Lincoln’s Paramour Devin K. Asante 9781790485970 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Lincoln’s Paramour reimagines one of America’s most iconic figures through a story of forbidden...
Nappy Duck And Potty Piggy
Nappy Duck And Potty Piggy Bernette Ford 9781910126110 Fiction Boxer Books Limited Boxer Books Limited Ducky wants Piggy to come out and play. But he can’t - he is on the potty. How can Ducky become a...
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education Donna Ford 9781618210494 Nonfiction Prufrock Press Prufrock Press Nominated for a 2014 NAACP Image Award! One pervasive educa...
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...
Deuce’s Wild: The Shango Mysteries
Deuce’s Wild: The Shango Mysteries Clyde W. Ford 9780738708096 Fiction Midnight Ink Llewellyn Publications John Shannon’s son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F.,...