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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination Herb Boyd 9780062346629 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “As a native Detroiter, I’m proud of the education I received at home, at the public sch...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Herb Boyd 9780743293082 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). ...
Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It Herb Boyd 9780385492799 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House Autobiography of a People is an insig...
Elombe Brath Selected Writings and Essays
Elombe Brath Selected Writings and Essays Herb Boyd 9780692052075 Nonfiction The Elombe Brath Foundation The Elombe Brath Foundation
The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964
The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964 Herb Boyd 9780883783511 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Read Press Release from Third World Press Announcing Landmark Publication of This Book The h...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
African History For Beginners
African History For Beginners Herb Boyd 9781934389188 Nonfiction For Beginners For Beginners African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory ...
Martin Luther King Jr.: Biography Collection
Martin Luther King Jr.: Biography Collection Herb Boyd 9781424005468 Nonfiction Cengage Learning Cengage Learning, Inc. This latest addition to The Heinle Reading Library teaches students the life s...
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America) Herb Boyd 9781596792586 Nonfiction ABDO Publishing Company ABDO Publishing Company
The Harlem Reader
The Harlem Reader Herb Boyd 9781400046812 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House There is no neighborhood in America as famous, infamous, and inspiring as Harlem. From its humble beginnings ...
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs 9781450810302 Fiction West Side Publishing West Side Publishing Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today explores the story of the Afri...
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen 9780345383174 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION…The powerful ...
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not? Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd 9780883784099 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Black Panther earns three Oscars. Since its inception Marvel Studios’ Bla...
Harlem Street Portraits
Harlem Street Portraits Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen 9780764344879 Fiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the hu...
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd 9781569768198 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press No modern tragedy has had a greate...
Watergate’s Forgotten Hero
Watergate’s Forgotten Hero Adam Henig 9781476684802 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland “Absorbing…compelling biography.”—Herb Boyd, author of Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Nearly eve...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing Fred Beauford 21551758v1 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2010 “The Wo...
Black and White Airmen: Their True History
Black and White Airmen: Their True History John Fleischman 9780618562978 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn’t.Jo...
Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey
Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey Adam Henig 9781500751494 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC ‘Few Americans are aware that Alex Haley has two books among the most popular in Americ...
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford 9780883782965 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Representing conversations from the Eighth National...
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 ...
Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Every Day
Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Every Day Maitefa Angaza 9781496722201 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. FROM PREPARATION TO CELEBRATION, MAKE YOUR KWANZAA A FAMILY TRADITION!Traditionally, Kwanz...
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America Haki Madhubuti and Lasana D. Kazembe 9780883783726 Nonfiction Third World Press Third...
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad Yusef A. Salaam 9781499047127 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions African Studies/Theatre/Religion/History Break-ins, vandalism, hostility between two of Elijah Muhammad’s ...
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC Karen Chilton 9780472034475 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press "“Karen C...
Politics and Poetics: The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper
Politics and Poetics: The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814353080 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figur...
Mystery, Malevolence & Murder
Mystery, Malevolence & Murder David T. Boyd 9780595387953 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions From the creator of Falling Down, mystery writer David T. Boyd returns with his latest work, Mystery, Malev...
Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911
Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911 Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814324899 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Frances E. W. ...
Beautifully Organized Estate Planner: The Ultimate Estate Planning Organizer for End of Life
Beautifully Organized Estate Planner: The Ultimate Estate Planning Organizer for End of Life Nikki Boyd 9781963183344 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random House The ultimate estate and funeral pl...
Bree Boyd Is a Legend
Bree Boyd Is a Legend Leah Johnson 9781368090100 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide From award-winning YA author Leah Johnson comes the sequel to her stunning middle grade debut, Elli...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd 9781476773155 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-win...
Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home
Beautifully Organized: A Guide to Function and Style in Your Home Nikki Boyd 9781944515683 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random House Create an organized, beautiful, and welcoming home with profe...
Death Dance of a Butterfly
Death Dance of a Butterfly Melba Joyce Boyd 9780615312903 Poetry Past Tents Press Past Tents Press Poetry. African American Studies. Melba Joyce Boyd’s latest poetry offering is an insightful examinat...
Shuri: Black Panther Novel (Marvel), Volume 1
Shuri: Black Panther Novel (Marvel), Volume 1 Nic Stone 9781338585476 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series...
The Weight
The Weight Jeff Boyd 9781668007266 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon...
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic Valerie Boyd 9781940596471 Nonfiction Lookout Books Lookout Books An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, with con...
Beautifully Organized at Work: Bring Order and Joy to Your Work Life So You Can Stay Calm, Relieve Stress, and Get More Done Each Day
Beautifully Organized at Work: Bring Order and Joy to Your Work Life So You Can Stay Calm, Relieve Stress, and Get More Done Each Day Nikki Boyd 9781950968251 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random...
Beautifully Organized Home Planner: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Organizing Your Home Life
Beautifully Organized Home Planner: The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Organizing Your Home Life Nikki Boyd 9781944515980 Nonfiction Paige Tate & Co Penguin Random House Are you struggling to juggle t...
Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall
Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814334454 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Dudley Randall was one of the foremos...
Garvey, Garveyism, and the Antinomies of Black Redemption
Garvey, Garveyism, and the Antinomies of Black Redemption C. Boyd James 9781592216550 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press In this copiously researched book, C. Boyd Ja...
Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press Melba Joyce Boyd 9780231130264 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press And as I groped in darkness and felt the...
The Province of Literary Cats
The Province of Literary Cats Melba Joyce Boyd 9780962247491 Poetry Past Tents Press Past Tents Press Poetry. African American Studies. "Melba Joyce Boyd has drunk deep of the Waters of Remembrance. T...
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814329733 Poetry Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Do poets’ surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Aban...
Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons Nancy Boyd-Franklin and A. J. Franklin 9780525944966 Nonfiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Two noted psychologists, who are parents them...
We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel Herb Frazier, Bernard Edward Powers Jr., and Marjory Wentworth 9781400355426 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing We Are...
The Road from Money A Journey to Find Why? Part 1 (1925 - 1937)
The Road from Money A Journey to Find Why? Part 1 (1925 - 1937) Sylvester Boyd Jr. 9781649612571 Fiction Author Reputation Press Author Reputation Press Purchase an autographed copy directly from th...
The Road from Money The Journey Continues Part 2 (1937 - 1955)
The Road from Money The Journey Continues Part 2 (1937 - 1955) Sylvester Boyd Jr. 9781649612595 Fiction Author Reputation Press Author Reputation Press Purchase an autographed copy directly from the p...
The Road from Money The Journey Continues Part 3 (1956 - 1968)
The Road from Money The Journey Continues Part 3 (1956 - 1968) Sylvester Boyd Jr. 9781649611703 Fiction Author Reputation Press Author Reputation Press Purchase an autographed copy directly from the p...
Monetary Policy, Central Banking and Economic Performance in the Caribbean
Monetary Policy, Central Banking and Economic Performance in the Caribbean Derick Boyd and Ron Smith 9789766402525 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press &n...
Falling Down
Falling Down David T. Boyd 9780595339082 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Janet Wilson is a married attorney living in Erie, Pennsylvania, who’s been having recurring nightmares about a man dressed ...
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Valerie Boyd 9780743253291 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A woman of enormous talent, remarkable drive, and rare intellectu...
Can I Get a Witness?
Can I Get a Witness? Julia A. Boyd 9780525944461 Nonfiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House A psychotherapist and the author of the best-seller, In the Company of My Sisters, presents the first pres...
In the Company of My Sisters
In the Company of My Sisters Julia A. Boyd 9780452272460 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House "This is the first self-help book by a psychotherapist to examine the realities of black women’s lives an...
Embracing the Fire: Sisters Talk About Sex and Relationships
Embracing the Fire: Sisters Talk About Sex and Relationships Julia A. Boyd 9780525939597 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Examines the sex lives of African American women in their own word...
A Different Beat
A Different Beat Candy Dawson Boyd 9780140365825 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Jessie soon discovers the difficulties of studying acting at Oakland Performing Arts Middle School, as she co...
Circle of Gold
Circle of Gold Candy Dawson Boyd 9780590432665 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. After the death of Mattie’s father, her mother seems to take out her frustrations on Mattie. But Mattie dev...
Daddy, Daddy, Be There
Daddy, Daddy, Be There Candy Dawson Boyd 9780399227455 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House In a collection of poetry celebrating fatherhood, children offer a heartwarming, poignant appeal to t...
Girlfriend to Girlfriend: Everyday Wisdom and Affirmations from the Sister Circle
Girlfriend to Girlfriend: Everyday Wisdom and Affirmations from the Sister Circle Julia A. Boyd 9780525939580 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House In an elegant gift-book, the circle of Africa...
Fall Secrets
Fall Secrets Candy Dawson Boyd 9780140365832 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House The first volume of a new series follows the adventures of four girls at their first year at a performing arts ju...
Chevrolet Saturdays
Chevrolet Saturdays Candy Dawson Boyd 9780027117653 Fiction Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Just when he feels comfortable with Mr. Johnson as his new stepfather, ten-yea...
Forever Friends
Forever Friends Candy Dawson Boyd 9780844665719 Fiction Peter Smith Pub Peter Smith Pub Inc A twelve-year-old black girl’s preparations for the prestigious King Academy’s entrance exam are disrupted...
The Inventory of Black Roses
The Inventory of Black Roses Melba Joyce Boyd 9780962247415 Poetry Past Tents Press Past Tents Press poetry, former coeditor of Broadside Press
Charlie Pippin
Charlie Pippin Candy Dawson Boyd 9780027263503 Fiction Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Spunky eleven-year-old Charlie hopes to understand her rigid father by finding out ...
Breadsticks & Blessing Places
Breadsticks & Blessing Places Candy Dawson Boyd 9780027092905 Fiction Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. A twelve-year-old black girl’s preparations for the prestigious King...
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...
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes Ramon Hervey II 9780063048034 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II ...
The Vanished (Shuri: Black Panther Novel #2), Volume 2
The Vanished (Shuri: Black Panther Novel #2), Volume 2 Nic Stone 9781338587180 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Shuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Panther), sets out to save...
Vegetable Kingdom
Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry 9780399581045 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • “Phenomenal … transforms the kitchen into a site for creating global culinary en...
The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook: 150 Healthy, Delicious Recipes for Diabetics and Those Who Dine with Them
The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook: 150 Healthy, Delicious Recipes for Diabetics and Those Who Dine with Them Angela S. Medearis 9781449402396 Nonfiction Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Pub...
Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays
Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays Eric V. Copage 9780060833244 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holid...
Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson 9780446674331 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The in...
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life Robin D. G. Kelley 9781250803078 Nonfiction Metropolitan Books Metropolitan Books A sweeping history of the African American struggle agai...
Black Hamptons 2: Gentrification
Black Hamptons 2: Gentrification Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt 9781645567165 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Things are heating up in the Black Hamptons, an affluent vacation community of Af...
#Sayhername: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
#Sayhername: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence Kimberlé Crenshaw 9781642594942 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Since the movement’s founding in 2014, #SayHerName ha...
Full Figured 16
Full Figured 16 La Jill Hunt and Kamaryn Hunt 9781645561279 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance La Jill Hunt teams up with her daughter Kamaryn for two stories about beloved characters, Sonya ...
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira 9780989960939 Nonfiction MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press Something happened and motivated these quiet activists to make an impac...
Our Stories, Our Voices: Black Men Speak Their Truth
Our Stories, Our Voices: Black Men Speak Their Truth Toni Coleman Brown and Julia D. Shaw 9781732840546 Nonfiction Collaborative Experience Collaborative Experience People often say that black men do ...
Welcome to Lagos: A Novel
Welcome to Lagos: A Novel Chibundu Onuzo 9781936787807 Fiction Catapult Catapult A provocative portrait of a rapidly-changing Nigeria by a “tremendous” young novelist who is “energizing the form.” (Wi...
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, And Selective Amnesia
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, And Selective Amnesia Monica Anderson 9780978637835 Nonfiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books Success Is a Side Effect is a powerful, practical guide to a...
Tara’s Perfect Life: The Lip Gloss Chronociles Vol. 5
Tara’s Perfect Life: The Lip Gloss Chronociles Vol. 5 Shelia M. Goss 9781601623980 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Bestselling author Sheila Goss returns with her popular Lip Gloss Chr...
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays Miriam Decosta-Willis 9781580730440 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays b...
Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography
Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston 9780062004833 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “Warm, witty, imaginative… . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerDust Tra...
A Deal with Death
A Deal with Death Endy 9781934157121 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Nina Boyd is the mother of two teenage boys and a functioning drug addict. Her two sons, Malik and Marquis, unde...
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Zora Neale Hurston 9780060854089 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “Warm, witty, imaginative… . This is a rich and winning book.”The New YorkerDust Trac...
The Black Librarian in America Revisited
The Black Librarian in America Revisited E.J. Josey 9780810828308 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield This sequel to The Black Librarian in America (Scarecrow, 1970) contains an array of c...
Hipology: Horizons in Poetry
Hipology: Horizons in Poetry Ron Alle and Stella Crews 9780940713079 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Includes the following Poems: "Doors Of Perception" by Allen Adkins "No. 125: ...