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The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families
The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer 9781797216829 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bo...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Robert Fleming Book Review Amanda Easton, the author of The Last Love Letter, has a history of letter writing going back to her college days when she sometimes said the...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin Excerpt If you dig deep en...
The Willie Lynch Letter is a Hoax!
The Willie Lynch Letter is a Hoax! Troy Johnson Article As a book seller, my primary goal is to connect readers with books that they will enjoy and learn from. Having a reader thank me for introduci...
A Letter to My Father
A Letter to My Father John W. Griffin 9781401026936 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions A Letter to My Father is an eye-popping personal reflection of a son who desperately needs to deeply purge himse...
The Red Letter Plays
The Red Letter Plays Suzan-Lori Parks 9781559361958 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group "In the Blood" is an extraordinary new play…It is truly harrowing…we can...
The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave
The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making of A Slave Kofi Ghanaba and Oyafunmike Ogunlano 9781930097223 Fiction Lushena Books Lushena Books AALBC.com Note: Despite the popularity of this title on our web...
Still We Rise: A Love Letter to the Southern Biscuit with Over 70 Sweet and Savory Recipes
Still We Rise: A Love Letter to the Southern Biscuit with Over 70 Sweet and Savory Recipes Erika Council 9780593236093 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A love letter to the Southern bis...
The Willie Lynch Letter and The Destruction of Black Unity
The Willie Lynch Letter and The Destruction of Black Unity Willie Lynch 9781592323005 Fiction Black Wallstreet Black Wallstreet AALBC.com Note: Despite the popularity of this title on our website, the...
Black Families in White America
Black Families in White America Andrew Billingsley 9780130774538 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A number of American Negro families managed to escape the more crippling consequence...
A Letter To My Father
A Letter To My Father Linda Watkins Book Review I had high expectations of debut autobiography, A Letter to My Father, by John W. Griffin, mainly because of my love for autobiographies and also due ...
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063425811 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay Letter from Birmingham Jail, pa...
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman 9781477307885 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press The C...
A Letter for My Mother
A Letter for My Mother Nina Foxx Excerpt Nina Foxx’s Letter: A Letter to My Once Mother-in-Law Charlenne, The doctors say that it won’t be long now. Your son just called and told m...
Men We Cherish
Men We Cherish Thumper Book Review African-American Women Praise The Men In Their Lives, Edited by Brooke Stephens is an anthology. A book filled with laughter, heartache, inspiration, comfort, heart...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Amanda Easton 9781424198511 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica The Last Love Letter is the raw, provocative and inspiring story of a young woman’s struggle to reconcile herself...
Open Letter to Chris Brown
Open Letter to Chris Brown Kevin Powell Article Open Letter to Chris Brown by Kevin Powell March 23rd, 2011 Dear Chris: I really did not want to write this open letter, and would have prefe...
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America Priya Fielding-Singh 9780316427265 Nonfiction Little, Brown Spark Hachette Book Group A “deeply empathetic” (Publishers Week...
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk Kam Williams Book Review "I’ve been Shirley’s partner in radio for over ten years now… I am amazed by how she manages to balance her personal and...
Homeschooling Black Children in the U.S.: Theory, Practice, and Popular Culture
Homeschooling Black Children in the U.S.: Theory, Practice, and Popular Culture Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman 9781648027826 Nonfiction Information Age Publishing Information Age Publishing In 2021, the Unit...
Racist Hate Mail
Racist Hate Mail Troy Johnson Article I was listening to the radio (1010 AM, WINS, New York) this week and heard a report of some Jewish people in Roslyn, LI who received some Jewish hate mail.Appare...
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter David Chariandy 9781635572872 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing "This is a beautiful meditation on what it means to be among a ...
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox Marti Dumas 9798889641155 Fiction Rebel Girls Rebel Girls A school election. A mysterious mailbox. And a letter from … Cleopatra? Middle school is so weird. That’s t...
The Willie Lynch Letter And the Making of A Slave
The Willie Lynch Letter And the Making of A Slave Willie Lynch 9798668277940 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published AALBC.com Note: Despite the popularity of this title on our website...
A Letter for My Mother
A Letter for My Mother Nina Foxx 9781593095321 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Thirty-three female writers share their essays and letters—hilarious, heart wrenching, and everything in bet...
Dinner for Two
Dinner for Two Mike Gayle 9780743477666 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Dave Harding’s got a wonderful wife, a beautiful home, and a job he could do in his sleep… So no one is more surprised than Da...
I Have a Dream also Letter From Birmingham Jail
I Have a Dream also Letter From Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. 9781563127847 Nonfiction Perfection Learning Perfection Learning In ’’Letter from Birmingham Jail,’’ Martin Luther King Jr. expl...
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters Kam Williams Book Review In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaki...
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Dorothy Roberts 9781541675445 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An award-winning scholar e...
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present Mary Frances Berry 9780807021507 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press An...
The Parker Inheritance (paperback)
The Parker Inheritance (paperback) Varian Johnson 9780545952781 Fiction Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Inc. The Parker Inheritance joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and b...
The Parker Inheritance
The Parker Inheritance Varian Johnson 9780545946179 Fiction Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Inc. Four starred reviews!"Powerful…. Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Warren Holloway 9781947340312 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Last Love Letter shows how three separate women can find love even when they’re not looking for it....
Mama’s Home
Mama’s Home Shay Youngblood 9780593180228 Fiction Make Me a World Penguin Random House A gorgeously illustrated picture book that is a powerful love letter to chosen families and the village that rais...
Mixed Families, Adopting Across Racial Boundaries
Mixed Families, Adopting Across Racial Boundaries Joyce A. Ladner 9780385127929 Nonfiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House This book is a study of transracial adoption, a trend that became popular i...
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder The Enduring Legacy Of African-American Families
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder The Enduring Legacy Of African-American Families Andrew Billingsley 9780671677084 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Climbing Jacob’s Ladder traces the history ...
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families Judith Giesberg 9781982174323 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Drawing from an archive of nearl...
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland Carole Boston Weatherford 9781635923872 Fiction Astra Young Readers Astra Publishing House In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated p...
Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship
Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship Tiffany D. Cross 9781538775493 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group In searing dispatches, Love, Me is a timely affi...
Deloris Jordan
Deloris Jordan NONE Deloris Jordan, mother of NBA star Michael Jordan, is a bestselling children's book author and advocate for families. Known for works like “Salt in His Shoes,” she also contribute...
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US Lenny Duncan 9781506452562 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Forme...
When My Cousins Come to Town
When My Cousins Come to Town Angela Shanté 9781513267227 Fiction West Margin Press West Margin Press A fun, lively story of Black family and cousin culture that celebrates individuality and embraces d...
The African American Family’s Guide to Tracing Our Roots: Healing, Understanding & Restoring Our Families
The African American Family’s Guide to Tracing Our Roots: Healing, Understanding & Restoring Our Families Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9780974977973 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group "The ...
A Love Letter to Texas Women
A Love Letter to Texas Women Sarah Bird 9781477309490 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press What is it that distinguishes Texas women, the famous Yellow Rose and her descendan...
Praise Him Anyhow - Volume 1
Praise Him Anyhow - Volume 1 Vanessa Miller 9780615842073 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Tears Fall at Night: Life was good, God was blessing and the Marshall family was riding high, u...
Assimilation Blues: Black Families In White Communities, Who Succeeds And Why (Contributions In Afro-American & African Studies)
Assimilation Blues: Black Families In White Communities, Who Succeeds And Why (Contributions In Afro-American & African Studies) Beverly Daniel Tatum 9780465083602 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Boo...
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter J. Nozipo Maraire 9780517702420 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House In an extraordinary novel—written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student a...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (Revised)
Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (Revised) Marian Wright Edelman 9780674292291 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Too many American families—unstable, broken, o...
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home Kam Williams Book Review “Black families and neighborhoods have been disproportionately victimized by bankers’ p...
Deborah Juniper-Frye
Deborah Juniper-Frye NONE “A grieving heart is full of emotions, struggles, and great despair. Hold on to Love, Hope, and Faith.” —Deborah Frye Deborah Juniper-Frye, with 20 years of...
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox (Secret Society of Rebel Girls)
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox (Secret Society of Rebel Girls) Marti Dumas 9798889641018 Fiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House “Girls running for office, secret leadership l...
The World Is Ours to Cherish: A Letter to a Child
The World Is Ours to Cherish: A Letter to a Child Mary Annaïse Heglar 9780593568019 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This hopeful picture book—written in the style ...
Corduroy Writes a Letter
Corduroy Writes a Letter Allan Eitzen 9780593432501 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Corduroy was first introduced to readers in 1968 and soon became a classic charact...
Adventurous Olivia’s Alphabet Quest
Adventurous Olivia’s Alphabet Quest Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328194 Nonfiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Based on the real-life shenanigans of a little gi...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781524733131 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be ...
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Patricia Bell-Scott 9780679446521 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Ra...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy) Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780807001127 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring ...
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama - Book Review
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama - Book Review Troy Johnson Article "Of Thee I Sing is basically a baker’s dozen of brief biographies of important figures in American hist...
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters Barack Obama 9780375835278 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has writte...
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes Moore 9780385528191 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes ...
A Letter to Amy
A Letter to Amy Ezra Jack Keats 9780140564426 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Generations of children have read, re-read, and loved Ezra Jack Keats’s award-winning, classic stories about Pet...
Letter to My Daughter
Letter to My Daughter Maya Angelou 9780812980035 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s pat...
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism Jenn M. Jackson 9780593243336 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward ...
Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810
Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 Paul Heinegg 9780806350424 Nonfiction Clearfield Clearfield As he did for free blacks in North Carolina and Virginia, P...
How to Unlock Your Family’s Genius
How to Unlock Your Family’s Genius David Simon 9781326886172 Nonfiction Lulu Lulu This unique book is for parents, families, teachers and community workers who are involved in the education and welfar...
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families Pamela Paul 9780805077452 Nonfiction Times Books Times Books "Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap … Pornif...
Coming Together: Celebrations for African American Families
Coming Together: Celebrations for African American Families Harriette Cole and John Pinderhughes 9780786807536 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group African American fam...
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class Lawrence Otis Graham 9780060183523 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Debutante cotillions. Arranged marriages. Summer trips to Martha’s Vineyard. A...
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair Tomesha Faxio 9780593579718 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlight...
All Because You Matter
All Because You Matter Tami Charles 9781338574852 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, ...
Hair Love ABCs
Hair Love ABCs Matthew A. Cherry 9780593695647 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House An alphabet board book inspired by the bestselling Hair Love with new spot illustrations and tex...
Heart’s Gambit
Heart’s Gambit J.D. Myall 9781250365408 Fiction Wednesday Books Macmillan Publishers “A high-stakes fantasy that’s impossible to put down… the dangerous romance between Emma and Malcolm kept me on the...
Every Story Is a Love Story
Every Story Is a Love Story Imbolo Mbue 9798217154777 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers, a captivating novel about love lost—a...
Joy Comes In The Morning (Praise Him Anyhow)
Joy Comes In The Morning (Praise Him Anyhow) Vanessa Miller 9781493568406 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Love was a four-letter word, and trust was an even worse five-letter word that ...
Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families
Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families Christina J. Cross 9780674278493 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University P...
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles 9781932841909 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Justice...
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System Kam Williams Book Review “The August 9th fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by poli...
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice Sys
Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice Sys Kam Williams Book Review “The August 9th fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by police ...
Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage
Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage Dianne M. Stewart 9781580058186 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of ...
Dear Black Child
Dear Black Child Rahma Rodaah 9780063091979 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins In the spirit of I Am Enough, this is a moving and lyrical tribute to and affirmation of Black children aroun...
What Every Black Parent Needs to Know about Saving Our Sons: Institutionalized Racism, Society, and Raising Black Children
What Every Black Parent Needs to Know about Saving Our Sons: Institutionalized Racism, Society, and Raising Black Children Marita Golden 9781684814145 Nonfiction Mango Mango Publishing Empower Your So...
Tamara Morgan
Tamara Morgan NONE Tamara Morgan, a Berkeley native and Stanford Law School alumna, is an accomplished Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader and employment law attorney. Known for her resilience, s...
The ABCs of Black History
The ABCs of Black History Rio Cortez 9781523507498 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold...
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy Shirley Strawberry 9780345525505 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Listen up, ladies! Shirley Strawberry...
The a Word: A Mother’s Journey Through Autism and Love
The a Word: A Mother’s Journey Through Autism and Love Tisha Campbell 9780063446489 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Actress, comedian, and mother Tisha Campbell (Martin, My Wife and Kids) shares her ...
Masjid Morning: A Novel
Masjid Morning: A Novel Richard Morris 9781537233277 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC While their families feud, Atif and Amy fall in love and strive to surmount their conflicting religion...
This Is Your Time
This Is Your Time Ruby Bridges 9780593378526 Nonfiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges—who, at the age of six, was the first black chil...
The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey
The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey Walter Greason 9781540204837 Nonfiction History Press Library Editions NHBS The struggle for black freedom and equality is a legacy that belongs to al...
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare Dorothy Roberts 9780465070596 Nonfiction Civitas Book Publisher Hachette Book Group The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failur...
Kimberly Drew
Kimberly Drew 0000000495858893 Kimberly Drew is a passionate writer, curator, and activist with a focus on art, fashion, and cultural studies. She's the Social Media Manager at The Met, a board membe...
Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie Jessixa Bagley 9781534496583 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A middle schooler’s plan to fit in with her new friends by writing herself a fake love ...
The Last Love Letter 2
The Last Love Letter 2 Warren Holloway 9781947340329 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Juan continues to juggle three women, Deja, Melanie, and Dawn, and work their emotions with his smoot...
Dear Star Baby
Dear Star Baby Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Dear Star Baby by Malcolm Newsome is a heartwarming, sensitive, and beautifully written picture book that addresses the delicate subject of grief and loss...
Black Girls
Black Girls Dominique Furukawa 9780063205314 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A joyful love letter to every Black girl everywhere. In an upbeat and rhythmic ode, Dominique Furukawa and Erika Lyn...
Race Matters
Race Matters Kirby Roy III Book Review Reading and evaluating the overriding themes in Cornel West’s Race Matters, which was published in 1993, given the context of events that have occurred si...