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Birth of a Culture
Birth of a Culture Grandmaster Flash with Scoop Jackson 9780063467583 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement b...
Scoop Jackson
Scoop Jackson 0000000082229175 Robert “Scoop” Jackson (born November 23, 1963) is an author, sports columnist, storyteller, and curator based in the Chicago area whose work explores the connections ...
Black: A Celebration of a Culture
Black: A Celebration of a Culture Deborah Willis 9781510760158 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Over 500 glorious black-and-white photographs celebrating Black culture throughout Am...
It is Written: The Birth of A King
It is Written: The Birth of A King My Bible Culture 9780980921205 Nonfiction My Bible Culture My Bible Culture It is Written: The Birth of A King features the events surrounding the birth of Jesus the...
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights Dick Lehr 9781610398237 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group In 1915, two men-one a journalist agitator, the ...
Nate Parker: The “The Birth of a Nation” Interview
Nate Parker: The “The Birth of a Nation” Interview Kam Williams Interview The Birth of Nate’s Nation! Actor/humanitarian-turned-writer/director Nate Parker first received critical attent...
The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/birth-of-a-nation-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Reverential Biopic Revisits Life of Infamous Slave Revolt Leader Excellent (4 star...
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement Nate Parker 9781501156588 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Also read “Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations” by Ez...
Geography, Race, and Culture
Geography, Race, and Culture Geography, Race, and Culture Geography, Race, and Culture: A Discussion, Reading and Performance in collaboration with QBR The Black Book Review & UKwithNY Ab...
Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey
Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey Troy Johnson Book Review Hip-Hop Culture’s first OFFICIAL luxury, large format coffee table book will inspire, entertain and educate all generations of readers wit...
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Warsan Shire 9781905233298 Poetry Flipped Eye Publishing Flipped Eye Publishing What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their dist...
My Bible Culture
My Bible Culture My Bible Culture Seven Trumpet Media Company Our mission at My Bible Culture is to help families (continuously) utilize God’s Word in their day to day life. By the word of God,...
Meji: 10th Anniversary Special Edition
Meji: 10th Anniversary Special Edition Milton J. Davis 9780999278956 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Twins born to a society that believes such a birth is a dangerous omen, Ndoro and Obaseki are separated at ...
My Bible Culture
My Bible Culture Seven Trumpet Media Company My Bible Culture Our mission at My Bible Culture is to help families (continuously) utilize God’s Word in their day to day life. By the word of God,...
Building a Learning Culture in America
Building a Learning Culture in America Kevin P. Chavous 9781412864428 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Building a Learning Culture in America takes an incisive, no-holds-barred look at how America embra...
Birth of a Dynasty
Birth of a Dynasty Chinaza Bado 9780063397606 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins Combining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and ...
This Book Might Be about Zinnia
This Book Might Be about Zinnia Brittney Morris 9781665904018 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Clap When You Land meets Monday’s Not Coming in this “compelling, ...
How To Give Birth To A God
How To Give Birth To A God Louis Farrakhan 9798985921830 Nonfiction Final Call Foundation Final Call Foundation “I have been working on this subject for over 15 years. I am so proud of this series of ...
After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party
After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party Noel Hankin 9781736614907 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscru...
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting...
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620976302 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voi...
Dance of the Jakaranda
Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani 9781617754968 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya’s railroad...
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620972403 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press One of Oprah.com’s "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine’s "10 Titl...
That Girl From Nowhere
That Girl From Nowhere Dorothy Koomson 9781780893341 Fiction Century Century This is from the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend’s Girl, an emotion...
Exile: The Tales of Terrowin: Book One
Exile: The Tales of Terrowin: Book One Jerry Canada 9780986290817 Fiction aea Media aea Media Terrowin is an ancient society like no other. Its unique monarchy consists of a king, queen, advisor, prot...
Book Of Hours: Poems
Book Of Hours: Poems Kevin Young 9780307272249 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my ...
Birth Of A Dark Nation (Volume 1)
Birth Of A Dark Nation (Volume 1) Rashid Darden 9780976598664 Fiction Old Gold Soul Old Gold Soul Justin Kena never knew his own strength. He was an average guy stuck working at a mediocre nonprofit i...
Accident of Birth: A Novel
Accident of Birth: A Novel Heather Neff 9780767917513 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House Reba Freeman has loved two men in her life. Her current husband, Carl, has supported her through their...
So Amazing! Black Culture Word Search
So Amazing! Black Culture Word Search Denise Rochelle Myhand and Jamah Myhand 9798755973458 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published So Amazing! The So Amazing Black Culture Word Search...
Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345936 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian...
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting 9780814740149 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Popular Culture Association/Americ...
Dark Designs and Visual Culture
Dark Designs and Visual Culture Michele Wallace 9780822334132 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Michele Wallace burst into public consciousness with the 1979 publicati...
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African American History and Culture MULTIPLE The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), established by Congress in 2003, is devoted to documenting Afric...
My Bible Culture
My Bible Culture NONE My Bible Culture's mission is to help families integrate God's Word into daily life. They offer products and services, featuring stunning illustrations, to aid in strengthening ...
Conscious Culture Publishing
Conscious Culture Publishing Conscious Culture Publishing Conscious Culture Publishing https://www.consciousculturepublishing.com/ Conscious Culture Publishing specializes in publishing African Histor...
Conscious Culture Publishing
Conscious Culture Publishing Conscious Culture Publishing Conscious Culture Publishing https://www.consciousculturepublishing.com/ Conscious Culture Publishing specializes in publishing African Histor...
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap National Museum of African American History and Culture 978Smithsonia Nonfiction Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Smithsonian Books The Smithsonian Anthology of...
Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope Karamo Brown 9781982111977 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown — Que...
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture Mabel O. Wilson 9781588345691 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books Rising on the National Mall next ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345707 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books This souve...
Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues
Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues Venise Berry 9781433126475 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a hol...
Becoming Black: Personal Ramblings on Racial Identification, Racism, and Popular Culture
Becoming Black: Personal Ramblings on Racial Identification, Racism, and Popular Culture David F. Walker 9780983355793 Nonfiction Drapetomedia Drapetomedia Have you ever wondered why Black characters ...
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture John Strausbaugh 9781585424986 Nonfiction TarcherPerigee Penguin Random House A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-...
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience Carlyle Fielding Stewart, III 9780865436633 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Pr...
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 000000040525486X Troy Johnson, founder of AALBC.com, is involved with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a NYPL research library and ar...
Fred Lee Hord
Fred Lee Hord NONE Dr. Fred Lee Hord, born in 1941, is the founder and Executive Director of the Association for Black Culture Centers. He's a professor at Knox College and Director of its Africana S...
Zeba Blay
Zeba Blay NONE Zeba Blay is a film and culture critic with a career spanning nearly a decade. She has contributed to various publications like The New York Times and was a Senior Culture Writer at Hu...
Doula: Jrnl of Rap Music & Hip Hop Cltr
Doula: Jrnl of Rap Music & Hip Hop Cltr Troy Johnson Article URBAN THINK TANK, INC. For the Body of Thinkers in the Hip Hop Community http://www.urbanthinktank.org Urban Think Tank, Inc. is ...
Doula: Jrnl of Rap Music & Hip Hop Cltr
Doula: Jrnl of Rap Music & Hip Hop Cltr Loading URBAN THINK TANK, INC. For the Body of Thinkers in the Hip Hop Community http://www.urbanthinktank.org Urban Think Tank, Inc. is a com...
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends)
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends) Seth Ferranti 9780980068740 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gor...
The Brand Within: The Power Of Branding From Birth To The Boardroom (Display Of Power Series)
The Brand Within: The Power Of Branding From Birth To The Boardroom (Display Of Power Series) Daymond John 9780982596210 Nonfiction Display of Power Publishing, Inc. Display of Power Publishing, Inc. ...
Shadow And Act
Shadow And Act Ralph Ellison 9780679760009 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralp...
The Brand Within: The Power of Branding from Birth to the Boardroom
The Brand Within: The Power of Branding from Birth to the Boardroom Kam Williams Book Review "What I hope to do with this book is reach out to anyone who wants to get a leg up on their own careers&...
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness LL Cool J 9780847873166 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Co-authored by Hip-Hop legend...
Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey
Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey Jordan Sommers 9780615410661 Nonfiction Aria Multimedia Entertainment Aria Multimedia Entertainment Weighing in at nearly 18 pounds, Hip-Hop Culture’s first OFFICIAL luxury...
Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance Steven Underwood 9780807013380 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The Curators of Culture: Celebrate Black digital art in t...
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around: How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around: How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War Justin Giboney 9781514008423 Poetry IVP InterVarsity Press Choose witness over war It’s possible...
Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis, and Trauma in America
Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis, and Trauma in America Dante D. King 9798990688209 Nonfiction Blackademics Blackademics Law shapes culture. Religion ...
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture Zeba Blay 9781250231567 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers One of Kirkus Review’s Best Books About Being Black i...
Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community
Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Smalls Lloyd 9780979954320 Nonfiction NewSouth Books NewSouth Books In the aftermath of t...
African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba
African American Culture: From Dashikis to Yoruba Gerald L. Early 9781440829550 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group A Three Volume Set Covering everything from sports to...
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345684 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books Drea...
Punishment in Popular Culture
Punishment in Popular Culture Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9781479833528 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitm...
Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture
Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture Hilary Beckles 9789766405021 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Rihanna is arguably the most comm...
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture Vincent Woodard 9780814794623 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Winner of the 2015 LGBT S...
REAL EYEZ: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Popular Culture
REAL EYEZ: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Popular Culture Anthony Asadullah Samad 9780972388047 Nonfiction Kabili Press Kabili Press In his latest work, bestselling Author/Columnist/Race S...
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity Marc Lamont Hill 9780807749609 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College ’Hill’s book is a beautifully writt...
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 Martha S. Jones 9780807858455 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press ...
The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World
The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World Armond White 9780879515867 Nonfiction The Overlook Press The Overlook Press Dust jacket notes: "This provocative first collection of essay...
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion Stephen L. Carter 9780385474986 Nonfiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House The Culture Of Disbelief has been th...
Mark Anthony Neal
Mark Anthony Neal 0000000114756800 Mark Anthony Neal, a distinguished professor at Duke University, is the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture, and Entrepreneurship. He co-direc...
Shirley Neal
Shirley Neal NONE Shirley Neal is a renowned journalist, author, and documentarian specializing in Pop Culture, Africa, and Black Identity. Noted for her Forbes Africa cover story on Oprah Winfrey, s...
The Roots of Rap
The Roots of Rap Neoma Nwasike Book Review Hip-Hop is a culture that has spanned generations and has become worldwide. It found its humble beginnings in some of the roughest trenches, deep in the Bro...
The Seven Daughters of Dupree
The Seven Daughters of Dupree Nikesha Elise Williams 9781668051948 Fiction Gallery Books/Scout Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the two-time Emmy Award–winning producer and host of the Black and Publ...
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide Howard W. French 9781324092452 Nonfiction Liveright W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Second Emancipation, the second...
Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers
Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers Ibram X. Kendi 9780374311865 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers In collaboration ...
Before the Ships: The Birth of Black Excellence
Before the Ships: The Birth of Black Excellence Maisha Oso 9781338849974 Nonfiction Orchard Books Orchard Books Before the Ships is a powerful and poetic celebration of the early roots of Black histor...
Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States Leslie M. Alexander 9780252086908 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The ...
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Tarana Burke 9781250621733 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Some...
Daughters of Nri
Daughters of Nri Reni K. Amayo 9781916042933 Fiction Onwe Press Onwe Press A gruesome war results in the old gods’ departure from earth. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Twins, s...
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound Kathleen Cornell Berman 9781624146909 Nonfiction Page Street Kids Page Street Publishing Miles can’t sleep.Taps his toes, snaps his finger...
Nana
Nana Brandon Massey 9781986873055 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Monica Stephens never knew her birth mother. Raised by a strict but loving adoptive parent, she blossomed into a woman wi...
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth Damian Chandler 9781478918370 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group In this real-life Christmas fable, when a Dad decides to let h...
When Minorities Lead in America: A Black Theologian’s Political Journey
When Minorities Lead in America: A Black Theologian’s Political Journey Herman J. Fountain Jr. 9781365665424 Nonfiction lulu.com lulu.com The Caucasian race is shrinking in the United States. The Hisp...
When We Were Black
When We Were Black Blakk Jack Samm 9781524614461 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The book is called When We Were Black. I came up with the book, or the book came up to me several years ago. It...
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617754456 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Book of Harlan was inspired by the life of my paternal grandfather; Harold Isaac McFadden (pictured on the ...
American Ace
American Ace Marilyn Nelson 9780803733053 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores Ame...
Where the Apple Falls
Where the Apple Falls Samiya Bashir 9780965665971 Poetry RedBone Press RedBone Press Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. Wher...
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel Aaron McGruder 9781400048595 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humor...
Blues in the Wind
Blues in the Wind Whitney J. Leblanc 9780913515471 Fiction River City Publishing River City Publishing First-time novelist LeBlanc has created a saga of the birth of the blues. In 1930s Louisiana, Phi...
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans Robin D. G. Kelley 9780195139457 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Written by the most prominent of the new generation o...
Natural Birth
Natural Birth Toi Derricotte 9781563411205 Poetry Firebrand Books Firebrand Books With insightful candour, Toi Derricote’s poem explores the ways in which her confusion about love and sex and longing ...
E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith
E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith John Strausbaugh 9780922233151 Nonfiction Blast Books Blast Books Three quarters of a million people visit Graceland each year—40,000 of them during "Elv...
The Birth of Christ
The Birth of Christ Yvette Moore 9781981849642 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A colorful rendition of the Christmas story for children of all ages.
Eddie L. Long
Eddie L. Long NONE Eddie Long is the senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Eddie Long is the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georg...
Laila Ibrahim
Laila Ibrahim NONE Laila Ibrahim, a full-time novelist, achieved fame with her book, Yellow Crocus, published in ten languages. Previously a preschool teacher and director, a birth doula, and a Direc...
Lurie Daniel Favors
Lurie Daniel Favors NONE Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., is a dedicated racial justice activist and attorney. She serves as General Counsel at the Center for Law and Social Justice, regularly appears on S...
Julian English
Julian English NONE Born prematurely with brain damage, Julian English defied odds by learning differently. His mother, Natasha Moulton-Levy, used travel to educate him, enabling Julian to understand...