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Fibroids, Endometriosis, and Cancer are not Rare Diagnoses
Fibroids, Endometriosis, and Cancer are not Rare Diagnoses Author Interviews
Karen Eubanks Jackson
Karen Eubanks Jackson NONE Karen Eubanks Jackson, a 27-year, four-time breast cancer survivor, is the founder and CEO of Sisters Network Inc., the only nationwide African American breast cancer survi...
Black Women’s Wellness: Your I’ve Got This! Guide to Health, Sex, and Phenomenal Living
Black Women’s Wellness: Your I’ve Got This! Guide to Health, Sex, and Phenomenal Living Melody T. McCloud 9781683648765 Nonfiction Sounds True Sounds True An essential guide to lifelong health and gre...
A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing
A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing Kemi Doll 9780593977477 Nonfiction Storehouse Voices Penguin Random House Black women are facing a systemic ...
M. Nicole Bryant
M. Nicole Bryant NONE M. Nicole Bryant, born in Missouri, is a breast cancer survivor and advocate turned author. After her diagnosis at 42, she was driven to raise awareness, especially amongst Afri...
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Brian H. Williams 9781506483122 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media A tour de force that diagnoses...
This Changes Everything: A Surprisingly Funny Story about Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don’t Talk about
This Changes Everything: A Surprisingly Funny Story about Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don’t Talk about Tyler Merritt 9781546006961 Nonfiction Worthy Books Hachette Book Group From the aut...
In the Company of My Sisters: My Story, My Truth
In the Company of My Sisters: My Story, My Truth Karen Eubanks Jackson 9781944359676 Nonfiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Dance as though no one is watching youLove as though you have never ...
Cynt Marshall
Cynt Marshall NONE Cynt Marshall is the first Black female CEO of an NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks. She's also a former SVP of human resources and chief diversity officer for AT&T, a cancer survivor...
Charron Walker
Charron Walker NONE Breast cancer conqueror. Brings 25 plus years of first-hand experience in the Human Services Field. She is an active volunteer with The American Cancer Society, Reach To Recovery ...
Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light
Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light Robin Allison Davis 9780063353138 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up he...
Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson 0000000055156329 Charlie Wilson, renowned R&B and soul musician, has earned multiple Grammy nominations and acclaim for his distinct voice and timeless hits. Despite struggles with hom...
Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee
Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee Hoda Kotb 9781439189498 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hoda is a memoir of lessons Kotb has learned along her journ...
Battling Prostate Cancer: Getting from "Why Me" to "What Next"
Battling Prostate Cancer: Getting from "Why Me" to "What Next" Marvin Andrew McMickle 9780817014605 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press "I hope many men will take advantage of this wealth of informat...
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Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde 0000000115569521 Audre Lorde, a black, gay female poet and activist, fought against racial and sexual discrimination and for gay rights. A renowned writer, she authored 18 books and won t...
What No One Told Us: The Black Woman’s Guide to Menopause
What No One Told Us: The Black Woman’s Guide to Menopause Michelle Cooke 9798181777958 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published For too long, Black women have been left out of the me...
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays Audre Lorde 9798890961310 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books [Originally published in 1998] “The self-described Black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture...
Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You: A Cookbook
Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You: A Cookbook Tia Mowry 9781101967355 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House From the star of the Cooking ...
The Making Of A Joyful Mother Workbook: A Spiritual Journey For Women Experiencing Infertility
The Making Of A Joyful Mother Workbook: A Spiritual Journey For Women Experiencing Infertility Kimberly Thacker Webb 9780595436989 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions The Making of a Joyful Mother i...
Zodiac Saga 1 the Search for the Temple: Friends Foes and Zodians
Zodiac Saga 1 the Search for the Temple: Friends Foes and Zodians Kaitlyn McKnight 9780989489423 Fiction Jammie McKnight Jammie McKnight In the year 32 B.C.E, Aries, The Zodian god of Death, had a vis...
Made Whole Devotional: For Breast Cancer Conquerors
Made Whole Devotional: For Breast Cancer Conquerors Charron Walker 9781965593028 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published This book brings hope to women, both young and old, who are ...
The Cancer Journals: Special Edition
The Cancer Journals: Special Edition Audre Lorde 9781879960732 Nonfiction Aunt Lute Books Aunt Lute Books “Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the ...
Rudolph Elliot Willis
Rudolph Elliot Willis NONE Rudolph Elliot Willis brings a deep, personal perspective to his writing, drawing from his own experiences growing up in Chicago—in Cabrini-Green. He performed his undergr...
Sankofa University: Studying African-Centered History and Culture
Sankofa University: Studying African-Centered History and Culture Burnett Kwadwo Gallman 9781639019779 Nonfiction Imhotep-The Drum Imhotep-The Drum This is not a conventional book. It provides a chapt...
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions William Julius Wilson 9780226901411 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press When first publishe...
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop George Yancy 9780415884747 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In perceiving all rap and hip-hop music as violent, misogynistic, and sexually charged, are we denying the...
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance 9781538725139 Nonfiction Balance Hachette Book Group A moving combination of memoir...
Tiffany Hammond
Tiffany Hammond NONE Tiffany “Tiffy” Hammond, is the voice behind Fidgets and Fries, a popular social media Autism advocacy account. She is an Autistic mother, advocate, and storyteller who uses her...
Our 10 Most Popular Discussions (and Why Discussion Forums Matter)
Our 10 Most Popular Discussions (and Why Discussion Forums Matter) Troy Johnson Article Our discussion forums have been running for more than 17 years. According to Google's Analytics, these are the...
Faith under Fire
Faith under Fire Kam Williams Book Review ’God has given me the opportunity to reach scores of women, connecting with their spirits to bring understanding to the ’dow...
Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties
Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties Kam Williams Article Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties The Sound of Mil...
Breastlessness
Breastlessness Jayne Cubbage Book Review Breastlessness by Nicole Bryant is both memoir and breast cancer resource guide. In the first half of the book, Bryant shares her own experience with the di...
Dasia (Forever)
Dasia (Forever) Nic Stone 9798217229307 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dear Martin series comes a spin-off novel written i...
Best Friends Forever
Best Friends Forever Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781455526086 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and he...
Breastlessness - What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
Breastlessness - What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do M. Nicole Bryant 9780977861200 Nonfiction Precisely Write Publishing Precisely Write Publishing This unique book provides a two-prong approac...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Kam Williams Book Review "Henrietta died in 1951 from a vicious case of cervical cancer… But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put...
Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight 0000000066439498 Etheridge Knight, born on April 19, 1931, was a renowned poet who began writing while incarcerated and published his notable collection, Poems from Prison, in 1968. ...
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir Angela Nissel 9780063345119 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries an...
Terminal Maladies
Terminal Maladies Okwudili Nebeolisa 9781637680940 Poetry Autumn House Press Autumn House Press Tender poetry chronicling a son’s relationship with his mother through her battle with cancer and ...
Solving The Race Issue In America
Solving The Race Issue In America H. J. Harris 9781890199074 Nonfiction New Paradigm Publishing New Paradigm Publishing The Top 7 Areas to Be Examined in Solving the Race Issue in America Paradigm Pub...
All Signs Point to Yes
All Signs Point to Yes g. haron davis, Cam Montgomery, and Adrianne White 9781335418623 Fiction Inkyard Press Inkyard Press A literal star-studded anthology that delivers a love story for every star...
Embracing Myself Now
Embracing Myself Now Shawneda Marks 9780615703824 Fiction SC Creations SC Creations Dani wants to love the new woman she has become. Just can’t convince her heart, soul and destroyed womb to accept th...
Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic: Strategies to Fight Diseases and Prolong Life for Black People
Correcting the Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic: Strategies to Fight Diseases and Prolong Life for Black People Emily Allison-Francis 9780912444499 Nonfiction Dare Books Dare Books Vitamin D deficiency ...
Uzo Aduba
Uzo Aduba 0000000367234787 Uzo Aduba, born in 1981, is an acclaimed actress in TV, film and theater. She's also a dedicated advocate for women's and human rights, serving as an ambassador for Heifer ...
Lillie Patterson
Lillie Patterson NONE Lillie Patterson, a retired Baltimore teacher, wrote 16 children's books, including biographies, history, and poetry. Known for her vivid characters and moral stories, her works...
Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt NONE Tyler Merritt is a multi-talented actor, musician, comedian, and activist known for The Tyler Merritt Project. With a career spanning 20 years, he has worked in TV shows like ABC's...
Marisa Renee Lee
Marisa Renee Lee NONE Marisa Renee Lee is a rabble-rouser of social healing: a former appointee in the Obama White House; managing director of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance; co-founder of the di...
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir
Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir Walela Nehanda 9780593529492 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House
Regina Tisdale
Regina Tisdale NONE Regina Tisdale is the widow of Wayman Tisdale, a renowned basketball player and jazz musician from Oklahoma, who tragically passed away from cancer at age 44 in 2009. Regina Tisda...
What We Lose: A Novel
What We Lose: A Novel Zinzi Clemmons 9780735221710 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree“The debut novel of the year.” —Vogue“A richly volatile study ...
A Past That Breathes
A Past That Breathes Noel A. Obiora 9781644281703 Fiction Rare Bird Books Rare Bird Books In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There wer...
Last Call for a Deadly Diva
Last Call for a Deadly Diva Flo Anthony 9781954161665 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Five years ago Valerie Rollins became a widow after her husband, electronics and ra...
Everybody’s Got Something
Everybody’s Got Something Robin Roberts and Veronica Chambers 9781455578450 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group "Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you li...
Auntie Nappy: Lessons From The Beautiful Life Patterns Made by Nefeterius Akeli McPherson
Auntie Nappy: Lessons From The Beautiful Life Patterns Made by Nefeterius Akeli McPherson Tamara Nicole Pizzoli 9780996001649 Fiction The English Schoolhouse The English Schoolhouse Nefeterius Akeli M...
Floyd’s Flowers
Floyd’s Flowers Silas Xavier Floyd 9781528587563 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from Floyd’s Flowers, or Duty and Beauty for Colored Children: Being One Hundred Short Stories; Gleaned...
Unsung Heroes
Unsung Heroes Elizabeth Ross Haynes Excerpt In casting about for stories to read to a little friend, one day I drew from the Library "My Life and Times" by Frederick Douglass. I knew that t...
The Negro in Our History
The Negro in Our History Carter G. Woodson 9780266906544 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Negro in Our History In this condensed form certain situations and questions could ...
Africa and the Discovery of America, Vol. 3
Africa and the Discovery of America, Vol. 3 Leo Wiener 9780265208175 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from Africa and the Discovery of America, Vol. 3No archaeologist, no historian, ...
Trail of Echoes
Trail of Echoes Rachel Howzell Hall 9780765381170 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Trail of Echoes: the latest Elouise Norton mystery novel from critically acclaimed writer Rachel Howzell Hall. On a...
Renegades: Born in the USA
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama 9780593236314 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House New York Times bestseller • Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversa...
21 Nights
21 Nights Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas 9781416554448 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. 21 Nights—a first book by Prince and celebrated photographer Randee St. Nicholas is a...
The Price of Inheritance
The Price of Inheritance Karin Tanabe 9781476758602 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this enthralling new novel from the author of The List (a “smartly paced and dishy debut,”...
Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience
Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience Janie Hendrix and John McDermott 9780743297691 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated ExperienceThe electric, bodacious, ext...
Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics
Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics Ken Quattro 9781684055869 Nonfiction Yoe Books Yoe Books Hear the riveting stories of Black artists who drew, mostly covertly behind the scenes...
Character Building
Character Building Booker T. Washington 9781331520993 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskeg...
The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light and Darkness, or the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abadon
The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light and Darkness, or the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abadon Lorenzo Thomas 9780259493624 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Rise and Progr...
The Hunted
The Hunted Matt De La Peña 9780385741231 Fiction Ember Ember Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña’s The Hunted, the sequel to The Living, is a high-energy, action-packed survival story.“De...
The Living
The Living Matt De La Peña 9780385741217 Fiction Ember Ember Newbery Award-winning author Matt de la Peña’s The Living is "a rare thing: a plot-driven YA with characters worthy of a John Green novel.”...
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (Harlem Moon Classics)
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (Harlem Moon Classics) Paul Laurence Dunbar 9780767919814 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House A historic collection of perceptive tales from a l...
Joaquim Paulo
Joaquim Paulo 0000000083970053 Joaquim Paulo, a Portuguese consultant for major record labels and radio station director, is a passionate vinyl collector with over 25,000 LPs. He travels globally to ...
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words Smiley Books 9781401924058 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” — W. E. B. Du ...
Damn Rare: Memoirs of an African-American Bibliophile
Damn Rare: Memoirs of an African-American Bibliophile Charles L. Blockson 9781892697004 Nonfiction Quantum Leap Productions Quantum Leap Productions The subtitle of the The Memoirs of an African-Ameri...
The Educational and Industrial Emancipation of the Negro
The Educational and Industrial Emancipation of the Negro Booker T. Washington 9781332871407 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Educational and Industrial Emancipation of the N...
The History of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the History of the Likeness of Christ Which the Jews of Tiberias Made to Mock At
The History of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the History of the Likeness of Christ Which the Jews of Tiberias Made to Mock At E. A. Wallace Budge 9781334237812 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Book...
Women’s Fiction and Diversity
Women’s Fiction and Diversity Renee Swindle Article Renee SwindleI’ve been reading what the publishing industry has dubbed “women’s fiction” since books by autho...
Education of the Negro
Education of the Negro Booker T. Washington 9781334694769 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from Education of the NegroThe eye over it and the motto allude to the many signal interpos...
American Crisis Biographies: Frederick Douglass
American Crisis Biographies: Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington 9781331494270 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from American Crisis Biographies: Frederick DouglassIn the succeed...
Batouala
Batouala René Maran 9781334226984 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from BatoualaYou know how earnestly I wish for the success of this novel. To be sure, it is merely a series of etching...
The Deserted Daughter: A Comedy
The Deserted Daughter: A Comedy Georgia Douglas Johnson 9780332120348 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Deserted Daughter: A ComedyDon. Ye wad nae acknowledge her; wad nae fee h...
Working With the Hands
Working With the Hands Booker T. Washington 9780260061263 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from Working With the Hands: Being a Sequel to "Up From Slavery," Covering the Author’s Exp...
The Crisis, Vol. 20: October, 1920
The Crisis, Vol. 20: October, 1920 Jessie Redmon Fauset 9780259383956 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Crisis, Vol. 20: October, 1920The November crisis will celebrate our T...
When Malindy Sings (Classic Reprint)
When Malindy Sings (Classic Reprint) Paul Laurence Dunbar 9781333495572 Poetry Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from When Malindy Sings You ain’t got de nachel o’gans Fu’ to make de soun’ come ...
Delayed But Not Denied 3: Real People Sharing Stories About Healing And Growth
Delayed But Not Denied 3: Real People Sharing Stories About Healing And Growth Toni Coleman Brown and Julia D. Shaw 9781732840522 Nonfiction Collaborative Experience Collaborative Experience The one c...
The Great Divide Between Blacks & Whites
The Great Divide Between Blacks & Whites Jeanette Davis 9781439218259 Fiction BookSurge Publishing On-Demand Publishing LLC "If Blacks and Whites truly become serious about solving the race problem in...
I Am Charlie Wilson
I Am Charlie Wilson Charlie Wilson 9781476790077 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. The long-awaited memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk ...
Like the First Time
Like the First Time Francis Ray 9780312324292 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers THE GOOD SISTER. Claire Bennet has lost her job for the second time in as many years due to downsizing. ...
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780374603274 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A bold, innovative biography that offers a new under...
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected Cynt Marshall 9780593359419 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A relentlessly optimistic memoir by one of the most influential Black b...
Natives Of Detroit: Short Stories
Natives Of Detroit: Short Stories G. Louis Jackson 9781475042023 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC When you are far away from home—but live in southeastern Michigan, the population bedro...
The Green Funeral: Honoring the Environment While Beautifying Funeral Practices
The Green Funeral: Honoring the Environment While Beautifying Funeral Practices Sequola Dawson 9798889834977 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media The care of creation is the responsibility of all Chr...
Love Is an Inside Job: Getting Vulnerable with God
Love Is an Inside Job: Getting Vulnerable with God Romal J. Tune 9781478992608 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Faith in God plus therapy are the combination that leads to wholeness. Tune’s s...
From Behind The Curtain
From Behind The Curtain Sierra Kay 9780984847761 Fiction The Vega Group The Vega Group Dee dropped out of high school the moment her mother’s battle with cancer took a downward spiral. She became the ...
This Leaves Me Okay
This Leaves Me Okay Ahmad Wright Book Review It is not every day that your grandmother writes you a letter. Even rarer for a grandmother with an eighth-grade education to write periodically in her ow...
The End of Race Politics
The End of Race Politics Coleman Hughes Excerpt Chapter 1Race, Anti-racism, and Neoracism For most of my life, I saw my mother as neither black nor white. Her Puerto Rican father was darker-skinned ...
The Long Road Back: Dealing With The Death Of A Spouse
The Long Road Back: Dealing With The Death Of A Spouse J.J. Phillips 9781091315938 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published This book deals with what the surviving spouse will likely...
You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through A Brother’s Eyes
You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through A Brother’s Eyes Jermaine Jackson 9781451651560 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jermaine Jackson—older than Michael by four years—offers a keenly obser...
Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African-American Identity
Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African-American Identity Kam Williams Book Review "In this book, I will not detail every pathological condition that ever existed in African-American...