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Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed 0000000035723517 Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history, authored “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.” She delves into the complex and intim...
On Juneteenth
On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed 9781631498831 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of...
Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings: An American Controversy Annette Gordon-Reed 9780813918334 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbrea...
Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17Th President, 1865-1869
Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17Th President, 1865-1869 Annette Gordon-Reed 9780805069488 Nonfiction Times Books Times Books A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale ...
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed MULTIPLE Prominent authors Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., an...
Jefferson on Race: A Reader
Jefferson on Race: A Reader Annette Gordon-Reed 9780691122069 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press From the New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ...
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family Annette Gordon-Reed 9780393337761 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Priz...
An Author You Should Know: Annette Gordon-Reed
An Author You Should Know: Annette Gordon-Reed Troy Johnson Article [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian and legal scholar"][/caption] Hist...
Annette Gordon-Reed, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and legal scholar on Thomas Jefferson
Annette Gordon-Reed, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and legal scholar on Thomas Jefferson Author Interviews Learn More about Annette Gordon-Reed: https://aalbc.it/annettegr This is an excerpt from historian A...
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed 9780792269823 Nonfiction National Geographic Nation...
Annette Vendryes Leach
Annette Vendryes Leach NONE Annette Vendryes Leach, a Brooklyn author and entrepreneur, transitioned from a successful advertising career to pursue her passion for fiction writing. She founded the Bl...
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller 9781620970287 Nonfiction The New Press The New P...
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne and Tamara Payne 9781631491665 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company “Les Payne’s The Dead Are Arising is a brilliant...
God Ain’t Blind
God Ain’t Blind Mary Monroe 9781496756275 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Originally Published in 2009. “Monroe is a masterful storyteller.” — Philadelphia Inquirer There are some thi...
God Don’t Like Ugly
God Don’t Like Ugly Thumper Book Review "I was hoping when I started God don't Like Ugly that it wasn't the typical girl-coming-of-age story. Alongside you-go-girl books, girl-coming-of...
Buffalo Gordon on the Plains
Buffalo Gordon on the Plains Thumper Book Review Reviewed by Thumper There are times when I get tired of the same ole, same ole in commercial fiction. Every now and then, I need a break from the ...
Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home
Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home Eli Reed 9780292748576 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Award-winning documentary photographer Eli Reed’’s “long walk” has been a journey that ...
God Don’t Play
God Don’t Play Mary Monroe 9781496756268 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Originally Published in 2010. From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes the story of two lifelong ...
Eli Reed
Eli Reed 0000000084169217 Eli Reed, renowned Magnum photographer since 1988, studied illustration and political science, and became famous for his work in Central America. The author of acclaimed boo...
First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today’s Civil Rights Movement
First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today’s Civil Rights Movement Steven L. Reed 9780593421758 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House In First, Best, Steven L. Reed, the first Black mayo...
Pinkie Gordon Lane
Pinkie Gordon Lane 0000000025290746 Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923-2008) was an influential poet, editor, and educator. Born in Philadelphia, she overcame hardships to earn degrees from Spelman College and...
God Don’t Make No Mistakes
God Don’t Make No Mistakes Mary Monroe 9781496756282 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The New Edition of a Modern Classic by New York Times Bestselling and Award-Winning Author Mary Monroe! ...
God Don’t Make No Mistakes
God Don’t Make No Mistakes Mary Monroe 9780758238634 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In the sparkling conclusion to Mary Monroe’s bestselling God series, two forever friends face their bigg...
Karla Renee Floyd, Elona Washington, Shennetta Smith, Joy Blakeney, Annette Smiley, Cheryl Peavy, Sharon Blake, Sahsha Campbell-Garbutt, Kim Bjanes, and Stephanie L. Ghoston
Karla Renee Floyd, Elona Washington, Shennetta Smith, Joy Blakeney, Annette Smiley, Cheryl Peavy, Sharon Blake, Sahsha Campbell-Garbutt, Kim Bjanes, and Stephanie L. Ghoston MULTIPLE "Karla Renee Flo...
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780593239803 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • The New York Times bestselling author o...
The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas Brooke N. Newman 9780063290976 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt For readers of Annette Gor...
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church Rachel L. Swarns 9780399590870 Nonfiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House “An absolutely essen...
In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship
In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship Jon Meacham 9780593229316 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-w...
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History Fawn M. Brodie 9780393338331 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A seminal biography of Thomas Jefferson and a fascinating exploration ...
The Reed Reader
The Reed Reader Ishmael Reed 9780465068937 Fiction Basic Books Perseus Books In The Reed Reader Ishmael Reed displays the brilliant and witty satire, politically charged, wildly imaginative storytelli...
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed 0000000121258332 “A great writer.” —James Baldwin Ishmael Reed, born 1933, is a prominent black American writer known for his engaging novels, poetry, plays, and es...
Gordon Parks Segregation Story
Gordon Parks Segregation Story Gordon Parks 9783969990261 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl An expanded edition of Parks’ classic account of race relations in America, with previously unpublished images and te...
Fear of Black Consciousness
Fear of Black Consciousness Lewis R. Gordon 9780374159023 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black c...
Ed Gordon
Ed Gordon 0000000045843168 Ed Gordon is an esteemed journalist with a career spanning various TV networks like BET, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS. Known for hosting shows like Conversation with Ed Gordon, BET ...
Lewis R. Gordon
Lewis R. Gordon 000000010879961X Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, musician, and public intellectual, known for his work on social justice and human relationships to reality. An award-wi...
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere 0000000118605620 Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, a renowned writer and academic, holds a PhD in English from the University of South Africa. Born in New York to Central American ...
Cougar Tales
Cougar Tales Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Is Age Just A Number? Three best-selling romance authors have joined together to bring readers an anthology based on the theme of older women/younger m...
God Ain’t Blind
God Ain’t Blind Idrissa Uqdah Book Review God Is Getting Tired And So Am I I think you have to really love the books and the characters in the God Don't Like Ugly series to still be reading th...
Fear of Black Consciousness (paperback)
Fear of Black Consciousness (paperback) Lewis R. Gordon 9781250862914 Nonfiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Lewis R. Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black con...
Gordon Parks I Am You: Selected Works 1934-1978
Gordon Parks I Am You: Selected Works 1934-1978 Gordon Parks 9783958291829 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl Injustice, violence, the Civil Rights Movement, fashion and the arts—Gordon Parks captured half a ...
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought Lewis R. Gordon 9780823266098 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Antiblack racism avows reason is white ...
Edmund W. Gordon
Edmund W. Gordon 0000000080872108 Edmund W. Gordon is a renowned Psychology and Education professor emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University and Yale University. He's a former director at th...
Youngin’ Blues: The Story of Reed and RaKeem
Youngin’ Blues: The Story of Reed and RaKeem Mercy B. 9781530570492 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carri...
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 Ishmael Reed 9781560254584 Poetry Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur f...
Black in America
Black in America Eli Reed 9780393039955 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Noted Magnum photographer Eli Reed’s provocative and often poignant portrait of black life in Americ...
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...
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove MULTIPLE Prominent authors Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, ...
Steven L. Reed
Steven L. Reed NONE Steven L. Reed, the first Black Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, was also the youngest and first Black probate judge. He holds a BA from Morehouse College and an MBA from Vanderbilt ...
Sarah Gordon Weathersby
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Sarah Gordon Weathersby
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Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944
Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944 Gordon Parks 9783969993620 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl Parks’ chronicle of small-town Maine anticipates his profound images of civil rights and inequality I...
Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970
Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970 Gordon Parks 9783969992289 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl Parks’ impactful images from the forefront of the civil rights a...
Gordon Parks Stokely Carmichael and Black Power
Gordon Parks Stokely Carmichael and Black Power Gordon Parks 9783969990940 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of...
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization Lewis R. Gordon 9780367632465 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonizatio...
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership Ed Gordon 9780316532860 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530177 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company His white teacher tells her all...
Xia Gordon
Xia Gordon NONE Xia Gordon is a School of Visual Arts graduate specializing in Cartooning & Illustration. Known for her comic, Kindling, published by 2dcloud, she has worked with The New York Times, ...
Parker-Nia Gordon
Parker-Nia Gordon NONE Parker-Nia Gordon grew up in the musical city of Memphis, Tennessee, home of rhythm and blues. She earned her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design before returning to M...
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks 0000000122842071 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a self-taught photographer who rose from poverty to become a pioneering African American film director, writer, and composer. Notably, he di...
Michael Gordon Bennett
Michael Gordon Bennett NONE Author, actor, and entrepreneur Michael Gordon Bennett, born in 1958, is known for his book “7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid.” He's also the CEO of B...
Maya Cameron-Gordon
Maya Cameron-Gordon NONE Maya Cameron-Gordon is an author, mother, and former teacher with an MFA in filmmaking. She aims to diversify children's fantasy through her books and films, promoting repres...
Absolution
Absolution J. L. Campbell 9789769558632 Fiction The Writers’ Suite The Writers’ Suite You’ve heard it said … Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - Will...
Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub
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Ishmael Reed Publishing
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The Terrible Fours
The Terrible Fours Ishmael Reed 9781771862431 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books When Ishmael Reed wrote The Terrible Twos about the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have...
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda Ishmael Reed 9781576879245 Nonfiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books "That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton." Described by the New York Times as "classic activis...
Indecency
Indecency Justin Phillip Reed 9781566895149 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardFinalist for ...
Conjugating Hindi (galley)
Conjugating Hindi (galley) Ishmael Reed 9781628972542 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press California is still the world’s biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocea...
Black Hollywood Unchained
Black Hollywood Unchained Ishmael Reed 9780883783535 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intelle...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
Christina Hammonds Reed
Christina Hammonds Reed NONE Christina Hammonds Reed, an MFA holder from the University of South Carolina's School of Cinematic Arts, is a LA native and published author. 'The Black Kids' is her debu...
Justin Phillip Reed
Justin Phillip Reed 0000000497688533 Justin Phillip Reed is a South Carolina-born author, known for his work in various publications and his MFA in poetry from Washington University. Recognized for h...
Dwayne Reed
Dwayne Reed NONE Dwayne Reed, a renowned rapping teacher from Chicago, is the author of the Simon B. Rhymin' series. Known for viral songs like “Welcome to the 4th Grade”, he also presents at educato...
Louise Story and Ebony Reed
Louise Story and Ebony Reed MULTIPLE Louise Story is a renowned investigative journalist and Yale professor, known for her work at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and for her investig...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California Reginald Martin Interview REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed a...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530153 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company The Society of Illustrators Ori...
The Body’s Secret
The Body’s Secret Sarah Gordon Weathersby x780615703190 Fiction Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby
Tell Them I Died
Tell Them I Died Sarah Gordon Weathersby 9780615703190 Fiction Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby Let’s say you’re a people person. You like helping people, taking them soup when they’re...
Motherless Child - Stories from a Life
Motherless Child - Stories from a Life Sarah Gordon Weathersby 9780615212944 Nonfiction Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby Imagine you gave a baby up for adoption forty years ago, and aft...
The Gordons of Tallahassee
The Gordons of Tallahassee Sarah Gordon Weathersby 9780615196893 Nonfiction Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby Family stories are easily lost, especially in these times when children leav...
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography Gordon Parks 9780767922128 Nonfiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Alone after his mother’s death, homeless in a Minnesota winter, young Gordon struggle...
Bebe Moore Campbell
Bebe Moore Campbell 0000000121422163 Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon was an accomplished author with three New York Times bestsellers and a NAACP Image Award for literature. She was a commentato...
Ed Gordon - The Daddy's Promise Interview
Ed Gordon - The Daddy's Promise Interview Kam Williams Interview Ed with Daughter Taylor Edward Lansing Gordon, III was born in Detroit in 1960. Both his parents, Ed and Jimmie, we...
The Slave Who Loved Caviar
The Slave Who Loved Caviar Ishmael Reed 9781648230165 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught rel...
Life Among the Aryans
Life Among the Aryans Ishmael Reed 9781576879900 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controver...
Bigotry on Broadway
Bigotry on Broadway Ishmael Reed 9781771862561 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited 12 informed and accomplished writers and c...
The Malevolent Volume
The Malevolent Volume Justin Phillip Reed 9781566895767 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between...
Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series)
Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series) Ishmael Reed 9781564786371 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpso...
Ishmael Reed: The Plays (American Literature)
Ishmael Reed: The Plays (American Literature) Ishmael Reed 9781564785510 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American...
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now Ishmael Reed 9781568583426 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Using the yardstick that a short stor...
Fishing For Love On The Net: A Guide To Those Searching For Love
Fishing For Love On The Net: A Guide To Those Searching For Love Myles Reed Jr. 9780595424917 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions Are you searching for true love but skeptical of the ever-popular w...
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Ishmael Reed 9781564782380 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press “Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse ...
Flight to Canada
Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed 9780684847504 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave’s-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infecte...
Japanese by Spring
Japanese by Spring Ishmael Reed 9780140255850 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts aft...
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 9780684824772 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed’s brilliantly ...
Conjure; Selected Poems, 1963-1970
Conjure; Selected Poems, 1963-1970 Ishmael Reed 9780870231148 Poetry University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press Conjure includes Ishmael’s “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto,” inspiration ...