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Annette Gordon-Reed, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and legal scholar on Thomas Jefferson
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham 9781400067664 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House "Fascinating and insightful … Many books have been written about Jefferson’s life, but few hav...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Reclamation (paperback): Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy
Reclamation (paperback): Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy Gayle Jessup White 9780063028661 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A Black descendant...
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy Gayle Jessup White 9780063028654 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A Black descendant of Thomas J...
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...
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Del Sandeen 9780766098251 Nonfiction Enslow Publishing Enslow Publishing LLC To say that Thomas Jefferson was complicated would be an understatement. A founding fath...
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...
Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson 0000000055228599 Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, has written for Vogue, New York magazine, and The New Republic. She has served as a critic for Newsweek and The New Yo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman 0000000031682180 Saidiya Hartman, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Columbia University professor, is celebrated for works like “Wayward Lives” and “Lose Your Mother.” Her accolades inclu...
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...
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...
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners Margaret A. Burnham 9780393867855 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction ...
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...
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...
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. MULTIPLE Charles J. Ogletree Jr. is a renowned American attorney, legal scholar, and civil rights advocate. Renowned for his work in criminal law and civil rights law, he's h...
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 ...
Etan Thomas
Etan Thomas 0000000044387420 Etan Thomas, born 1978, is more than an athlete. Known as “The Activist Athlete”, this former NBA player has turned his focus to a successful literary career, mentoring, ...
Courses of the Cursed: A Curtis Jefferson novel
Courses of the Cursed: A Curtis Jefferson novel Vince Bailey 9781732843653 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at Fort Grant,...
Courses of the Cursed (Paperback): A Curtis Jefferson novel
Courses of the Cursed (Paperback): A Curtis Jefferson novel Vince Bailey 9781732843660 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at...
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...
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...
Piri Thomas
Piri Thomas 0000000362962312 Piri Thomas, born in 1928 to Puerto Rican and Cuban parents, overcame racial discrimination and a troubled past in New York to become an influential figure in the Nuyoric...
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...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
Sheree Renée Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas 0000000019174343 Sheree R. Thomas is a multi-talented writer, editor, publisher, educator, and visual artist. She co-publishes the literary journal Anansi and founded Wanganegress...
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts 000000007591721X Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet and legal scholar, transformed his life after a nine-year prison sentence for carjacking at 16. His poetry is published in various...
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 ...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Margo Jefferson 9781524748173 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yo...
Roland S. Jefferson
Roland S. Jefferson NONE Roland S. Jefferson, originally from Washington, D.C., is a celebrated author known for his rich, multi-layered characters and contemporary themes. After receiving his medica...
Jennifer L. Morgan
Jennifer L. Morgan 0000000116288983 Jennifer L. Morgan is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Morgan is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" Grant Winner, for "Deep...
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas 0000000121205943 Clarence Thomas, born in 1948, is an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, nominated by President G. H. W. Bush. He succeeded Thurgood Marshall in 1991, becomi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sarah Gordon Weathersby
Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby
Sarah Gordon Weathersby
Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby Sarah Gordon Weathersby
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, ...
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Dear Benjamin Banneker Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780152004170 Nonfiction Gulliver Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, ...
Ameca Reali and Marbré Stahly-Butts
Ameca Reali and Marbré Stahly-Butts MULTIPLE Ameca Reali and Marbré Stahly-Butts are prominent legal advocates and leaders in the movement lawyering space, specifically through their work with L...
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...
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell 0000000121208618 Thomas Sowell is an esteemed economist, author, and political philosopher, with education from Harvard, Columbia, and Chicago Universities. He's taught at several unive...
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes 0000000052553847 Terrance Hayes is a renowned poet, author of four collections and winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry. A MacArthur fellow, Hayes has received numerous ac...
Salome Thomas-El
Salome Thomas-El NONE Salome Thomas-EL, born in Philadelphia, has been a transformative teacher and chess coach since 1987, leading his students to become Eight-Time National Chess Champions. He hold...
Awaken
Awaken Melissa Brown Levine Book Review Awaken is a powerful story about heritage and restoration. Author Timothy George takes an innovative approach in this African-focused tale by combining m...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub
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Ishmael Reed Publishing
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Ishmael Reed Publishing
Ishmael Reed Publishing Ishmael Reed Publishing, Company Ishmael Reed Publishing
Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub
Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub