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Changers Book Two: Oryon
Changers Book Two: Oryon T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper 9781617753077 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Fantastic."—John Green"This is an excellent sequel….This installment raises the stakes, maki...
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L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems
L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems Kevin Coval 9781608461516 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books From the poet the Chicago Tribune calls “the new voice of Chicago,” comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collec...
Akashic Books
Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series Black Goat Black Sheep Edge of Sports Enemy Books Infamous Books Open Lens Peekash Press The Armory Uglytown Productio...
Kemosha of the Caribbean (paperback)
Kemosha of the Caribbean (paperback) Alex Wheatle 9781617759826 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self ...
Kemosha of the Caribbean
Kemosha of the Caribbean Alex Wheatle 9781636140001 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailin...
Gold Diggers: A Novel
Gold Diggers: A Novel Tracie Howard 9780385517980 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House ENTER THE WORLD OF “GUCCI, GLITZ, AND GLAMOUR”* IN THIS DELICIOUSLY DECADENT LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF THE YOUNG, THE ...
Claude McKay
Claude McKay 0000000108625951 Festus Claudius McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Jamaica and authored influential works including the poem “If We Must Die” and novel “Home to ...
Jewel Caston-Mendoza
Jewel Caston-Mendoza NONE Jewel Caston-Mendoza, once the overlooked middle child, found her voice through writing. Her journey, from winning a 5th-grade writing contest to publishing her first poetry...
Blessings
Blessings Chukwuebuka Ibeh 9780385550642 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A BBC Best Book Of 2024 - A Most Anticipated Book - Moonlight Meets Purple Hibiscus In This Coming-Of-Age Novel Ab...
Zero O’Clock
Zero O’Clock Christopher John Farley 9781617759758 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o’clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end....
I Am a Promise
I Am a Promise Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 9781617757648 Nonfiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Pryce, who earned her fame as an illustrious athlete before putting pen to paper, remains an influential voic...
The Kingmaker
The Kingmaker Kennedy Ryan 9781732144347 Fiction Scribechick Media Scribechick Media The KingmakerAmbition. Passion. Betrayal.Rita Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan delivers the epic first installment...
Home Girl
Home Girl Alex Wheatle 9781617757532 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "With a tough exterior and brash attitude, Naomi is an authentic character in an unfortunate yet accurate picture of modern-day f...
Party: A Mystery
Party: A Mystery Jamaica Kincaid 9781617757167 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2019 Children’s Sneak PreviewsThree girls—Pam, Beth, and Sue—attend a party to c...
Bivouac
Bivouac Kwame Dawes 9781617757105 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books “Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a...
Around Harvard Square
Around Harvard Square Christopher John Farley 9781617757143 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Wry, sly, and ferociously funny, Around Harvard Square is not just the satire Ivy League college life des...
What Is Hip-Hop?
What Is Hip-Hop? Eric Morse 9781617755842 Nonfiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 featureMorse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highligh...
Game World
Game World Christopher John Farley 9781617751974 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "The Narnia for the Social Media Generation."—The Wall Street Journal"Drawn from both video gaming culture and the ri...
The Dark Side of Money
The Dark Side of Money d. E. Rogers 9780970880864 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books As the perfectly-manicured matriarch of an African American fashion empire, Gloria Dean is the kind of woman who wants i...
Never Make the Same Mistake Twice: Lessons on Love and Life Learned the Hard Way
Never Make the Same Mistake Twice: Lessons on Love and Life Learned the Hard Way Denene Millner 9781439167311 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Real Housewives of Atlanta averaged 1.3 m...
Khara Campbell
Khara Campbell NONE A Q&A, from December 2013, with novelist Khara Jhanielle Campbell: Not My Will is your first novel. Sex before marriage, such a hot evergreen topic among the number o...
Tanika L. Lynch
Tanika L. Lynch NONE Born in Detroit, Tanika L. Lynch overcame a challenging past marked by abuse, abandonment, and a stint in prison. During her incarceration, she earned her GED, attended college, ...
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep Kam Williams killer27.jpg Film Review Killer of Sheep Click to order via Amazon Unrated Black & White Running time: 81 minutes Studio: New Yorker Video/Miles...
The Requited Distance
The Requited Distance Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781931357913 Poetry Sheep Meadow Press Sheep Meadow Press “These poems soar with stunning lyric grace and yet we feel their earthly and epic gravity along...
Dances With Sheep: A K Chronicles Compendium
Dances With Sheep: A K Chronicles Compendium Keith Knight 9780916397500 Fiction Manic D Press Manic D Press
Allan Eitzen
Allan Eitzen 000000006320495X Allan Eitzen, from Mountain Lake, Minnesota, is an accomplished illustrator educated at Gustavus Adolphus College, the Institute of Art, and the University of the Arts. ...
Hair Story : Untangling The Roots Of Black Hair In America
Hair Story : Untangling The Roots Of Black Hair In America Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps 9780312265991 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a ...
Reflections of a Black Cowboy: Pioneers
Reflections of a Black Cowboy: Pioneers Robert H. Miller 9781933491028 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The exciting adventures of Black cowboys, pioneers, soldiers, and other frontiersmen ...
Between Brothers
Between Brothers Walter Benefield Book Review C. Kelly Robinson has combined the elements of a successful television drama, violence, suspense, and relationships in his novel, "Between Brothers&...
Only for the Holidays
Only for the Holidays Abiola Bello 9781641297547 Fiction Soho Teen Soho Press The Love Hypothesis meets The Holiday in this fake dating YA romance about a city girl and country boy’s lives colliding a...
Victory
Victory David F. Walker 9781524124434 Fiction Dynamite Entertainment Dynamite Entertainment From Vampirella’s fiftieth anniversary to her very own series! VICTORY started as Vampirella’s lover and en...
The Herd Boy
The Herd Boy Niki Daly 9780802855503 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Malusi is a herd boy, which means that he must look after his grandfather’s sheep and g...
Schemes
Schemes Kiki Swinson and Saundra 9781617733673 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DEVIL IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn’t seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan of...
Schemes
Schemes Kiki Swinson and Saundra 9781617733659 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DEVIL IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn’t seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan o...
Walk Me to the Distance (Southern Revivals)
Walk Me to the Distance (Southern Revivals) Percival Everett 9781611175400 Fiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press Newer Version AvailableVietnam veteran David La...
Redeeming Heart
Redeeming Heart Pat Simmons 9780692434406 Fiction Generations Quest Press OverDrive, Inc. Landon Thomas (In Defense of Love) brings a new definition to the word “prodigal,” as in prodigal son, brother...
What Love Feels Like
What Love Feels Like F. Y. Dawn 9781477274989 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Latrice is married to the good looking Calvin Stewart. He swept her off her feet putting an end to her party girl lif...
Baba Wagué Diakité
Baba Wagué Diakité 0000000121436557 Baba Wagué Diakité, a Mali-born artist, found his roots in drawing before discovering claywork when he moved to the US. He has had numerous solo and group exhibi...
Mark Makabi
Mark Makabi NONE Mark Makabi is an accomplished author from Brockton, Massachusetts, who is passionate about education, justice, religion, and history. The seventh of ten children, Makabi founded Bit...
Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son
Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son Denise Bolds 9780982176405 Nonfiction Denise Bolds Denise Bolds Raising Princes to Be Kings is a guide for black mot...
The Endangered Black Family: Coping With the Unisexualization and Coming Extinction of the Black Race
The Endangered Black Family: Coping With the Unisexualization and Coming Extinction of the Black Race Nathan Hare and Julia Hare 9780961308605 Nonfiction Black Think Tank Black Think Tank “…one of the...
The Myth of Black Capitalism: New Edition
The Myth of Black Capitalism: New Edition Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9781685900311 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press Deciphers the history of "Black capitalist" rhetoric— and h...
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays Amena Brown 9798217044689 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House An irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collec...
Moonstone’s 17th Annual Celebration of Black Writing
Moonstone’s 17th Annual Celebration of Black Writing The 17th Annual Celebration of Black Writing was held February 16 to 18, 2001 in Philadelphia, PA The 17th Annual Celebration of Black Writing ...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Char Adams 9780593474235 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is...
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...
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese 9781517908140 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press An in-depth look at...
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era Ashley D. Farmer 9781469634371 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In this comprehensive history, ...
THE BLACK SCHOLAR: Journal of Black Studies and Research
THE BLACK SCHOLAR: Journal of Black Studies and Research Troy Johnson Article Volume 1 Number 1 November 1969 Mission Statement From the Inaugural Issue: THE BLACK SCHOLAR has been born out of th...
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Adilifu Nama 9780292726741 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundatio...
My Love Notes to a Black Man
My Love Notes to a Black Man Lana Reid 9780972809108 Fiction Cachet Press Cachet Press The dynamics of loving a Black man are often discussed by Black women. According to the Center for Disease Contro...
Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination
Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination Amos N. Wilson 9781879164000 Nonfiction Afrikan World Books Afrikan World Books Paperback. Author,...
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child Amos N. Wilson 9780686241836 Nonfiction Africana Research Publications Africana Research Publications Are Black and White Children the same? Are ...
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...
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Daniel Black 9781335449382 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America...
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 ...
Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of You
Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of You Ali Kamanda and Jorge Redmond 9781728250649 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Explore Sourcebooks Inspire Black boys to imagine all the great things they can do w...
Raising Confident and Empowered Black Kids: A Comprehensive Guide for Badass Black Parenting
Raising Confident and Empowered Black Kids: A Comprehensive Guide for Badass Black Parenting M.J. Fievre 9781642505580 Nonfiction Mango Mango Publishing How to Raise Black Kids in a Racist WorldRaisin...
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...
We Must Patronize Black-Owned Websites or Lose Them
We Must Patronize Black-Owned Websites or Lose Them Troy Johnson Article Part of AALBC.com’s mission is to help support Black-owned websites. Historically, I've focused on sites related to books i...
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (South End Press Classics Series)
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (South End Press Classics Series) Manning Marable 9780896085794 Nonfiction South End Press South End Press...
Faye Childs
Faye Childs NONE Faye Childs, born 1956, was a literary agent committed to promoting Black literature. She founded the Black Board Bestsellers list, a platform that increased visibility for Black aut...
17th Annual Celeb.of Black Writing
17th Annual Celeb.of Black Writing Troy Johnson Article PHOTOS and a report of this event coming soon! The 17th Annual Celebration of Black Writing February 16 to 18, 2001 Philadelphia For...
Black Forward: Marching Orders for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0
Black Forward: Marching Orders for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0 Roland S. Martin 9781538782316 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Black Forward is a hard-hitting investigation into what you c...
Battle for the Black Mind
Battle for the Black Mind Karida L. Brown 9781538768433 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group A gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom—and the bold strategies to ...
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Christine Kim and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews 9781636810164 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books A celebratory visual chronicle o...
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal 9781479806881 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press A framework for understanding the deep ar...
The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women Marita Golden 9781642506839 Nonfiction Mango Mango Publishing How African American Women Repair and Recover f...
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback) Alice Randall 9780062970862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz,...
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 ...
Black Brave Beautiful: A Badass Black Girl’s Coloring Book
Black Brave Beautiful: A Badass Black Girl’s Coloring Book M.J. Fievre 9781642505290 Nonfiction Mango Mango Publishing An African-American & Black Fashion Coloring Book with an Empowering TwistAdult c...
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century Kehinde Andrews 9781786992772 Nonfiction Zed Books Zed Books The Black Lives Matter movement reinvigorated Black political movements arou...
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Black Power Encyclopedia: From Black Is Beautiful to Urban Uprisings [2 Volumes]
Black Power Encyclopedia: From Black Is Beautiful to Urban Uprisings [2 Volumes] Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Stanford, and Jasmin A. Young 9781440840067 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Pu...
The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America
The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America Shawn D. Rochester 9780999007204 Nonfiction Shawn D. Rochester Shawn D. Rochester While Black Americans have long felt the devastating effects of anti...
Shattering Black Male Stereotypes: Eradicating the 10 Most Destructive Media Generated Illusions about Black Men
Shattering Black Male Stereotypes: Eradicating the 10 Most Destructive Media Generated Illusions about Black Men Michael Taylor 9780996948746 Nonfiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing G...
Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America Marcus Anthony Hunter 9780190249670 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philad...
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone Ralph Richard Banks 9780525952015 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House During the past half century, A...
Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882—1938.
Resisting Lynching: Black Grassroots Responses to Lynching in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, 1882—1938. Karlos K. Hill 9781243753519 Nonfiction Umi Dissertation Publishing Proquest "Resisting Ly...
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama Sophia Nelson 9781935618942 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books Stereotypes aren’t funny when they...
The Black Clergy’s Misguided Worship Leadership: Petition: No More Idol Gods for Black People
The Black Clergy’s Misguided Worship Leadership: Petition: No More Idol Gods for Black People Christopher C. Bell Jr. 9781425178062 Nonfiction Trafford Publishing Author Solutions The Black Clergy’s M...
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...
Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytical History
Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytical History Robert H. Allen 9780865431577 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Black Awakening in Capitalist America is...
Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice
Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice Carol Taylor Book Review Much more than a memoir, Black Power, Black Lawyer traces not only Nkechi Taifa’s personal life, and her decad...
History of our Annual Black Pack Party
History of our Annual Black Pack Party Troy Johnson Article The Black Pack Party is a gathering of professionals across the Black book ecosystem. It was originally held annually during Book Expo Amer...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Katie Mitchell 9780593581346 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country alon...
We Tried to Tell Y’All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
We Tried to Tell Y’All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives Meredith D. Clark 9780190068141 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Through interviews, news anal...
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608013029 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Situating historical inquiry al...
Yes, Black Men Do Love Black Women
Yes, Black Men Do Love Black Women Michael Taylor 9798985728668 Nonfiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Yes, Black Men Do Love Black Women is the ultimate empowerment guide for ...
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future Alice Randall 9781668018408 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Alice Randall, awar...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
Recognize! (paperback): An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
Recognize! (paperback): An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593381625 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED. In...
Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men
Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men Harold Green III 9780063135567 Poetry Harper Design HarperCollins As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the mus...
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice Treva B. Lindsey 9780520384491 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press A powerful account of viole...
When We Say Black Lives Matter
When We Say Black Lives Matter Maxine Beneba Clarke 9781536222388 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In a powerful, poetic missive, award-winning author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke celebra...
We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto
We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto Allen Bernard West 9781612544335 Nonfiction Brown Books Publishing Group Brown Books Publishing Group Something has happened to the black comm...
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America Ibi Zoboi 9780062698728 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acc...