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Ibram X. Kendi Wins National Book Award for Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi Wins National Book Award for Stamped from the Beginning Book Spotlights
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi 0000000126860699 Ibram Xolani Kendi, an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida, is an award-winning author and former journalist. Kendi has receiv...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 9780316453691 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Rea...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi 9781568585987 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group See Newer Revised Version Some Americans cling...
Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain MULTIPLE Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain are renowned authors and historians, known for their influential works on race and American society. Kendi is a National...
Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi
Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi MULTIPLE Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi are influential authors, with Hurston known for her significant contributions to African-American liter...
Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning (Revised): The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi 9781645030393 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group The National Book Award-winning hist...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi 9781568584638 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group The National Book Award-winning history of how...
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Stamped from the Beginning [Graphic Edition]: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning [Graphic Edition]: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi 9781984859433 Nonfiction Ten Speed Graphic Penguin Random House National Bestseller • A striki...
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi MULTIPLE Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi are renowned authors, known for their insightful works on race, culture, and society. They use their writings to shed ligh...
Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone MULTIPLE Ibram X. Kendi is a renowned historian and scholar on racial discrimination, while Nic Stone is a best-selling author known for addressing contemporary racial is...
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 9780316167512 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The #1 New York Times bestseller! ...
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age Ibram X. Kendi 9780593978023 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning cha...
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone 9780593461600 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House he #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for y...
Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action
Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action Ibram X. Kendi 9780593233009 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Reflect on your understanding of race and discover ways to work to...
The Making of Butterflies
The Making of Butterflies Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063111585 Fiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins A First Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower, Zo...
The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism (Second 2024)
The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism (Second 2024) Ibram X. Kendi 9783031373930 Nonfiction Springer Springer Nature In his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provi...
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063098336 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins In the fi...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain 9780593134047 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House A chorus of extraordinary voices comes ...
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 ...
How to Raise an Antiracist
How to Raise an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 9780593242537 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist th...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi Excerpt PART I Cotton Mather CHAPTER 1 Human Hierarchy THEY WEATHERED BRUTAL WINTERS, suffered...
The (Young) Antiracist’s Workbook: Questions for Changemakers
The (Young) Antiracist’s Workbook: Questions for Changemakers Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone 9780593234853 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Kids 12 and up can discover ways to work toward a bet...
Goodnight Racism
Goodnight Racism Ibram X. Kendi 9780593110515 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House National Book Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist, Antiracist ...
Magnolia Flower
Magnolia Flower Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063098312 Fiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a...
Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse
Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove 9781942774099 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications “If there’s anything that has prev...
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.” Antira...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds 9780316453684 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book ...
Antiracist Baby
Antiracist Baby Ibram X. Kendi 9780593110416 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new...
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian 9781642592702 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Black Lives Matter at School is an essentia...
The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk”
The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” W.E.B. Du Bois 9780140189988 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House The landmark book about being Black i...
Robert Smalls: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 3
Robert Smalls: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 3 Joel Christian Gill 9781682750667 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press “Joel Christian Gill’s shows how ordinary people fight for ou...
How to be an Antiracist
How to be an Antiracist Tony Lindsay Book Review How to be an Antiracist is an instructional text written by historian, professor, and bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi. The teaching text begins by i...
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Michael G. Long and Yohuru Williams 9780374391744 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publi...
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa 9780593490617 Nonfiction Viking Penguin Random House “Since we know George Floyd’s dea...
The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice
The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice Ibram X. Kendi 9780593234846 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House
Chapter One
Chapter One Ibram X. Kendi Excerpt Chapter One Definitions Racist: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea. Antiracist: One who is...
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements Malcolm X 9780802160706 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. “Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never cha...
Just Pursuit
Just Pursuit Laura Coates 9781982173760 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastatin...
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers Rose Brock 9780593463956 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R....
The Black Agenda
The Black Agenda Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman 9781250276872 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers "The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
Joe Louis
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The Tortoise or the Hare
The Tortoise or the Hare Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983347 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Everyone knows that in the story of the Tortoise and the Hare the slow and st...
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Clint Smith 9780316492935 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group "We need this book." —Ibram X. Kendi, ...
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds 9780316167581 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group
Civil Rights Icon, John Lewis Wins National Book Award!
Civil Rights Icon, John Lewis Wins National Book Award! Book Spotlights
Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for, The Underground Railroa
Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for, The Underground Railroa Book Spotlights
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal Bettina L. Love 9781250280381 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers "I am an eighties baby who grew to hate s...
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Erika Lee 9781541672604 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading fo...
Punished for Dreaming (paperback): How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Punished for Dreaming (paperback): How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal Bettina L. Love 9781250383082 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Now a New York Times and a ...
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Ruby Hamad 9781948226745 Nonfiction Catapult Catapult Called "powerful and provocative by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York ...
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat 000000011051509X Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-born author, is renowned for her books like “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, an Oprah Book Club pick, and “The Farming of Bones”, an American Book...
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It Dorothy A. Brown 9780525577331 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House A groundbreaking e...
Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent
Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent Harriet A. Washington 9781734420722 Nonfiction Columbia Global Reports Columbia Global Reports “Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. Kend...
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards Troy Johnson Article November 11, 2015 Update: A complete list of National Book Award Honorees, of African descent, is now available. The mi...
Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon 0000000040185776 Kekla Magoon, an award-winning author of eight YA novels, including The Rock and the River and X: A Novel, also pens non-fiction on historical topics. She's won an NAACP...
How is African American Literature Really Doing?
How is African American Literature Really Doing? Troy Johnson Article For those in the business of Black books in America, this is a common question; “How is African American Literature Doing?” Some...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
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The Tiki Factor: 4 Key Principles to Turn Your Losses Into Wins
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Karen’s Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10)
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Duel
Duel Jessixa Bagley 9781534496552 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A rivalry between sisters culminates in a fencing duel in this funny and emotional debut graph...
Angela Flournoy
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Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate
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Nathan Harris
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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John Keene
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Karen Eubanks Jackson
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Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
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Dreamer: A Novel
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Shelby Steele
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Mercy (American Poets Continuum)
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Jesmyn Ward
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Donika Kelly
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African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home
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