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Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin 0000000401943238 Ruha Benjamin is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Ruha Benjamin is a renowned sociologist, professor, and author specializing in tec...
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America Rich Benjamin 9781401322687 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich ...
J.M. Benjamin
J.M. Benjamin NONE Allow me to introduce you to one of the hardest working hustlers in urban lit: J.M. Benjamin J.M. Benjamin is a successful, powerful and impacting ...
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider MULTIPLE K'wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider are accomplished authors, each bringing unique s...
J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse
J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse MULTIPLE J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse are renowned authors, known for their compelling narratives. Their unique perspectives and engaging storytelling have establishe...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown MULTIPLE Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown are notable authors with extensive experience in the literature field. Their works primarily focus on soci...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. NONE Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an activist, author, and journalist, currently the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Previously, he s...
Two Masks One Heart
Two Masks One Heart Jacob Spears and Trayvon D. Jackson 9781943686506 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Local gangster Benjamin Clark has all of Georgia on ’lockdown.’ The drug kingpin sit...
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay Shanna Greene Benjamin 9781469662534 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006)...
Benjamin Brawley
Benjamin Brawley 000000010856022X Benjamin G. Brawley was a prominent author and educator, born in 1882. He earned degrees from Morehouse College, University of Chicago, and Harvard. Brawley taught E...
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin 9780691222882 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision ...
Benjamin Quarles
Benjamin Quarles 0000000121004017 Benjamin A. Quarles (1904-1996) was a renowned historian and prolific writer, known for his extensive research on black soldiers and abolitionists in the American Re...
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Ruha Benjamin 9780804782968 Nonfiction Stanford University Press Stanford University Press Stem cell research has sparked controversy and ...
Orchester Benjamin
Orchester Benjamin NONE Orchester Benjamin, a former street player, became a writer and historian of the “Game” at 73. He balances family life, promoting his books, supporting urban literature, and w...
Shanna Greene Benjamin
Shanna Greene Benjamin NONE Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar focusing on Black women's literature and intellectual history. She's published in various reviews and also works as a co...
Down In The Dirty
Down In The Dirty J.M. Benjamin 9780970819161 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing Childhood friends, Keisha, Desiree, Tasha and Pam quickly learn how to use their beauty an...
Rich Benjamin
Rich Benjamin 0000000065214377 Rich Benjamin is a cultural anthropologist and the author of Searching for Whitopia. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and...
Imagination: A Manifesto
Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin 9781324020974 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? ...
I Am Benjamin Franklin
I Am Benjamin Franklin Brad Meltzer 9780525555919 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House The 21st book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Benja...
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Randal Maurice Jelks 9780807835364 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In this first full-l...
From Incarceration 2 Incorporation
From Incarceration 2 Incorporation J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse 9780981775647 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing From Incarceration 2 Incorporation is about the powerful journ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Kam Williams the_cu20.jpg Film Review Brad Pitt Stars in Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic The Curious Ca...
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406 Nonfiction Polity Press Polity Press Race After Technology is a brilliant, beautifully argued, engagingly wri...
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History Rich Benjamin 9780593317396 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended...
Radiance Of Tomorrow
Radiance Of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah 9780374246020 Fiction Sarah Crichton Books Sarah Crichton Books A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way GoneWhen Ishmael Beah’s A Lo...
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois Stanley Crouch and Playtehll Benjamin 9780762413492 Nonfiction Running Press Hachette Book Group Sta...
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America Lillie Patterson 9780687029006 Nonfiction Abingdon Press Abingdon Press True, young Benjamin’s "eyes fairly danced with excitement," but it’s conta...
Nellie Y. McKay
Nellie Y. McKay 0000000081108566 Nellie Y. McKay, an influential figure in American literature, co-edited the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Her work highlighted the scholarly study...
Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko
Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko Derek Tyler Attico 9781803366258 Fiction Titan Books (UK) Titan Publishing Group The fascinating life of Starfleet’s celebrated captain, and Bajor’s Emissary of the Pro...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown 9781590795699 Nonfiction Select Books Select Books The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the...
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals Doug Melville 9781668005132 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Th...
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Benjamin Quarles 9781574782035 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press “No study of the Garrison school of reformers, Liberty party abolitionism, the technique of anti-sla...
Soft
Soft T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill 9781601624635 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling authors Ashley and JaQuavi...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised)
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780807846032 Nonfiction Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Pre...
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded Benjamin Quarles 9780684818887 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The bestselling, definitive study of African Am...
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, ...
Lincoln and the Negro
Lincoln and the Negro Benjamin Quarles 9780306804472 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group First published in 1962, Lincoln and the Negro was the first book to examine in detail how Lincoln fac...
Black Abolitionists (Revised)
Black Abolitionists (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780306804250 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery moveme...
The Negro in the Civil War
The Negro in the Civil War Benjamin Quarles 9780306803505 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group "The Civil War was a revolution in many ways," writes Benjamin Quarles in this renowned...
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin MULTIPLE
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill MULTIPLE
J.M. Benjamin author of Ride or Die Chick Series
J.M. Benjamin author of Ride or Die Chick Series Author Interviews
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771484 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair ...
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States Benjamin Brawley 9781983447174 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This book is an amazing, interesting, detailed look at black people,...
Ben Carson
Ben Carson 0000000110700201 Dr. Benjamin Carson, once a child from a poor, single-parent home, overcame challenges to fulfill his dream of becoming a physician. Now, he's a renowned pediatric neurosu...
Saving Our Daughters: From A Man’s Point Of View Vol. 2
Saving Our Daughters: From A Man’s Point Of View Vol. 2 Curtis Benjamin 9780615292649 Nonfiction ICTBS Publishing ICTBS Publishing To Whom It May Concern: Saving Our Daughters Volume 2 is back and ha...
Menace II Society
Menace II Society Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin 9780971702172 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Menace II Society is a gritty w...
Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown (Revised)
Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780306809613 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group John Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two c...
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats 0000000370477827 Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) was a pioneering children's book author and illustrator known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American literature. Despit...
Trinity
Trinity Zelda Lockhart 9780063160965 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tri...
Imagination: A Manifesto
Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin 9781324105015 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge 9781469673196 Nonfiction University of North Caro...
Trinity
Trinity Zelda Lockhart 9780063160958 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tri...
Moth to a Flame: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Moth to a Flame: Tenth Anniversary Edition Ashley Antoinette 9781645560555 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left stand...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622861293 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of ...
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life Ruha Benjamin 9781478003816 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The con...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622864904 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double Gs have ch...
Memoirs of an Accidental Hustler
Memoirs of an Accidental Hustler J.M. Benjamin 9781622864737 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. A Brownstone in the Bed-Sty area of Brooklyn New York, traded in for a housing projects in ...
Moth to a Flame
Moth to a Flame Ashley Antoinette 9781601624796 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of cha...
Ride Or Die Chick 3
Ride Or Die Chick 3 J.M. Benjamin 9780981775685 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Imagine being the product of one of the most notorious Bonnie & Clyde couples to ever terroriz...
Memoirs Of An Accidental Hustler
Memoirs Of An Accidental Hustler J.M. Benjamin 9780982944219 Nonfiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing A Brownstone in the Bed-Sty area of Brooklyn New York, traded in for a housing...
Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism Maurice Jackson 9780812221268 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press Anthony Benezet (17...
Heaven & Earth
Heaven & Earth J.M. Benjamin 9780981775654 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing The Columbians had Pablo Escobar… The Cubans had Scarface…The Italians had John Gotti…And the Broth...
Ride Or Die Chick II
Ride Or Die Chick II J.M. Benjamin 9780979861413 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing After the dust settles, Teflon has some unfinished business to handle. But she’s not ri...
On The Run With Love
On The Run With Love J.M. Benjamin 9780981775609 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Freddie Holmes could’ve wrote the book on How to Be A Player. With his good looks, gift of ga...
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 9780977342112 Fiction SoulViewWorld SoulViewWorld OLD ...
My Manz And ’Em
My Manz And ’Em J.M. Benjamin 9780979199004 Fiction Real Edutainment Publishing L.L.C. Real Edutainment Publishing L.L.C. Growing up in the West Second street housing projects, in Plainfield, New Jers...
Ride Or Die Chick
Ride Or Die Chick J.M. Benjamin 9780739494110 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance in life from the day he was born. Never ...
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay 9780140287332 Fiction Peter Pauper Press Peter Pauper Press In this landmark collection, 100 British writers of ...
Richard B. Moore
Richard B. Moore 0000000082432341 Moore was an early advocate for the use of “African American” as opposed to “Negro” or “Black.” Richard Benjamin Moore was an infl...
Ben Jealous
Ben Jealous 0000000417015073 Benjamin Todd Jealous is a notable American civil rights leader and social impact investor. He was the youngest-ever national leader of the NAACP (2008-2013) and ran for ...
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...
Third Annual Festival Albertine
Third Annual Festival Albertine Albertine store on Fifth Avenue at 79th Street New York New York American participants will include the poet Claudia Rankine, the curator Thelma Golden, the novelist Da...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Willard Jenkins 9781478019039 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major ...
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever John McWhorter 9780593188798 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House Nine Nasty Words is a deeply intelligent celebration of language that...
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White William Sturkey 9780674248274 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks...
PerSOULnalities: Poems for Every Kind of Man
PerSOULnalities: Poems for Every Kind of Man Heather Covington 9781414022024 Poetry Disilgold Disilgold The sequel to Heather Covington’s PerSOULnalities poetry book series is back, but this time it’s...
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman 0000000110326512 John Edgar Wideman, born in 1941, is a renowned author and professor hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He completed his B.A. in English from the University of...
Ty Allan Jackson
Ty Allan Jackson NONE Ty Allan Jackson is a celebrated author and publisher, renowned for his children's book 'Danny Dollar Millionaire: The Lemonade Escapade.' Inspired by his son's curiosity about ...
James Mcgrath Morris
James Mcgrath Morris 000000007142934X James McGrath Morris is a renowned author of biographies and narrative nonfiction, including a New York Times Bestseller. With a career spanning journalism, teac...
Ralph Ginzburg
Ralph Ginzburg 0000000115071504 Ralph Ginzburg, born October 28, 1929, was an esteemed author, editor, publisher, and photo-journalist specializing in erotica and art. Infamously convicted in 1963 fo...
Gene Barretta
Gene Barretta NONE Gene Barretta is an acclaimed children's book author and illustrator, known for titles like “Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare.” He has won the Carolyn W. Field Award and Bank...
Derek Tyler Attico
Derek Tyler Attico NONE Derek Tyler Attico is an American speculative fiction author, essayist and award-winning photographer. He is a two-time winner of the Star Trek “Strange New Worlds” short-sto...
Black Stats (2nd Edition): African Americans by the Numbers
Black Stats (2nd Edition): African Americans by the Numbers Monique Couvson 9781620979624 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening—and frequently...
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...
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Erika Lee 9781541672604 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading fo...
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos Dionne Brand 9781478000068 Poetry Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bale...
The Lemonade Stand Cookbook: Step-By-Step Recipes and Crafts for Kids to Make…and Sell! (None)
The Lemonade Stand Cookbook: Step-By-Step Recipes and Crafts for Kids to Make…and Sell! (None) Kathy Strahs 9780996911214 Nonfiction Burnt Cheese Press Burnt Cheese Press Winner, Gold Medal in the You...
The Work: My Search For A Life That Matters
The Work: My Search For A Life That Matters Wes Moore 9780812993578 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a m...
The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions)
The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions) Charles W. Chesnutt 9780393927801 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential...
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation Jon Meacham 9780812976663 Nonfiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Priz...
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell: A Novel
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell: A Novel Kenji Jasper 9780767916752 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House The thrilling new novel of crime, music, and redemption from the acclaimed author of Dark and Da...
J. Everett Prewitt
J. Everett Prewitt NONE J. Everett Prewitt, a distinguished alumnus and Vietnam veteran, has received numerous awards for his novels, including “Snake Walkers” and “A Long Way Back.” His works have b...
Julian Winters
Julian Winters NONE Julian Winters is the author of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award-winning Running With Lions; the Georgia Peach Award-nominated Right Where I Left You; Junior Library Guild S...