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Ride Or Die Chick
Ride Or Die Chick J.M. Benjamin 9780739494110 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance in life from the day he was born. Never ...
Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin 0000000401943238 Ruha Benjamin is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Ruha Benjamin is a renowned sociologist, professor, and author specializing in tec...
J.M. Benjamin
J.M. Benjamin NONE Allow me to introduce you to one of the hardest working hustlers in urban lit: J.M. Benjamin J.M. Benjamin is a successful, powerful and impacting ...
Sunny 101: The 10 Commandments of A Boss Chick
Sunny 101: The 10 Commandments of A Boss Chick Sunshine Smith-Williams 9780991104161 Fiction Voices International Publications Voices International Publications SUNNY 101: THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF A BOS...
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America
Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America Rich Benjamin 9781401322687 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich ...
Checkmate - the Baddest Chick
Checkmate - the Baddest Chick Nisa Santiago 9781934157510 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing The Baddest Chick Motto: Your time at the top is short-lived. Enjoy it while you can. Ko...
Ride Or Die Chick II
Ride Or Die Chick II J.M. Benjamin 9780979861413 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing After the dust settles, Teflon has some unfinished business to handle. But she’s not ri...
Ride Or Die Chick 3
Ride Or Die Chick 3 J.M. Benjamin 9780981775685 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Imagine being the product of one of the most notorious Bonnie & Clyde couples to ever terroriz...
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider MULTIPLE K'wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider are accomplished authors, each bringing unique s...
J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse
J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse MULTIPLE J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse are renowned authors, known for their compelling narratives. Their unique perspectives and engaging storytelling have establishe...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown MULTIPLE Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown are notable authors with extensive experience in the literature field. Their works primarily focus on soci...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. NONE Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an activist, author, and journalist, currently the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Previously, he s...
Two Masks One Heart
Two Masks One Heart Jacob Spears and Trayvon D. Jackson 9781943686506 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Local gangster Benjamin Clark has all of Georgia on ’lockdown.’ The drug kingpin sit...
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay Shanna Greene Benjamin 9781469662534 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006)...
Benjamin Brawley
Benjamin Brawley 000000010856022X Benjamin G. Brawley was a prominent author and educator, born in 1882. He earned degrees from Morehouse College, University of Chicago, and Harvard. Brawley taught E...
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin 9780691222882 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision ...
Benjamin Quarles
Benjamin Quarles 0000000121004017 Benjamin A. Quarles (1904-1996) was a renowned historian and prolific writer, known for his extensive research on black soldiers and abolitionists in the American Re...
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Ruha Benjamin 9780804782968 Nonfiction Stanford University Press Stanford University Press Stem cell research has sparked controversy and ...
Orchester Benjamin
Orchester Benjamin NONE Orchester Benjamin, a former street player, became a writer and historian of the “Game” at 73. He balances family life, promoting his books, supporting urban literature, and w...
Shanna Greene Benjamin
Shanna Greene Benjamin NONE Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar focusing on Black women's literature and intellectual history. She's published in various reviews and also works as a co...
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense Aya de León 9781496728593 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Praise for A Spy in the Struggle The author of the four Justice Hustl...
Thug Passion 3
Thug Passion 3 Mz. Lady P 9781502991447 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Real niggas don’t die. They go to Miami and get richer. That’s exactly what the infamous Ka’Jaire "Thug"Kenneth has...
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story Sharon Langley 9781419736858 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams The true story of how a ride on a carousel made a powerful Civil Rights statement...
I Am Benjamin Franklin
I Am Benjamin Franklin Brad Meltzer 9780525555919 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House The 21st book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Benja...
Side Chick Nation
Side Chick Nation Aya de León 9781496715791 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Winner of the Internation Latino Book Award A Justice Hustlers Novel She’s beautiful, unpredictable—and on the r...
Outlaw Chick
Outlaw Chick Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692472828 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Who wants that perfect love story anyway…..Despite growing up in the ghetto, the beautiful Shontay ...
Project Chick Ii: What’s Done In The Dark
Project Chick Ii: What’s Done In The Dark Nikki Turner 9781250001436 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tressa always thought that the best moment in her life was the day she gave bi...
In My Hood Part 2
In My Hood Part 2 Endy 9781934157589 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing The dust has settled from havoc that took place In My Hood. No one thought there’d be anyone left standing, bu...
To Funk and Die in L.A.
To Funk and Die in L.A. Nelson George 9781617755859 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books An A.D. Hunter Mystery "Ex-bodyguard D Hunter travels from Brooklyn to Los Angeles to investigate the circumsta...
Down In The Dirty
Down In The Dirty J.M. Benjamin 9780970819161 Fiction Flowers in Bloom Publishing Flowers in Bloom Publishing Childhood friends, Keisha, Desiree, Tasha and Pam quickly learn how to use their beauty an...
Rich Benjamin
Rich Benjamin 0000000065214377 Rich Benjamin is a cultural anthropologist and the author of Searching for Whitopia. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and...
Imagination: A Manifesto
Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin 9781324020974 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? ...
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Randal Maurice Jelks 9780807835364 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In this first full-l...
From Incarceration 2 Incorporation
From Incarceration 2 Incorporation J.M. Benjamin and Randy Kearse 9780981775647 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing From Incarceration 2 Incorporation is about the powerful journ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Kam Williams the_cu20.jpg Film Review Brad Pitt Stars in Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic The Curious Ca...
Soft
Soft T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill 9781601624635 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling authors Ashley and JaQuavi...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Larry Dane Brimner 9781629795867 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner On May 4, 1961, a group of thi...
Girls That Never Die: Poems
Girls That Never Die: Poems Safia Elhillo 9780593229484 Poetry One World Penguin Random House National Bestseller — Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation ...
Together We Ride
Together We Ride Valerie Bolling 9781797212487 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Hair Love finds its match in this endearing narrative that paints a vivid picture of the beautiful bond between a...
Never Die Alone
Never Die Alone Troy Johnson never_19.jpg Film Review The following is not a review, but informational material for the movie NEVER DIE ALONE Order Movie-Original Pos...
Thug Passion
Thug Passion Mz. Lady P 9781500377700 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Tahari Monroe is in a loveless,sexless, and abusive relationship with her boyfriend Nico of four years. The love the...
Complete Poems
Complete Poems Claude McKay 9780252028823 Poetry University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred published here for the f...
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Kam Williams get_ri2.jpg Film Review 50 Cent Dies for Our Sins in Disappointing Screen Debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Rated R: for full frontal male nudity, topless fe...
Too Beautiful To Die
Too Beautiful To Die Thumper Book Review It had been a long while since I read a suspense/mystery novel’too long. I had a stroke of good fortune when the most recent mystery book I read was To...
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic Kevin M. Weeks Article The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic ’Never Say Die; Be Optimis...
Jayne Allen’s Inspiration for Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Jayne Allen’s Inspiration for Black Girls Must Die Exhausted Jayne Allen Article I knew that I wanted to write a story that gave authentic purpose to showcasing a Black female protagonist. I wanted...
Menace II Society
Menace II Society Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin 9780971702172 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Menace II Society is a gritty w...
Wild Ride (a Dyamonde Daniel Book, Book #6)
Wild Ride (a Dyamonde Daniel Book, Book #6) Nikki Grimes 9781478890737 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Readers are welcomed back to the world of Dyamonde Daniel in a big way with the sixth i...
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Benjamin Quarles 9781574782035 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press “No study of the Garrison school of reformers, Liberty party abolitionism, the technique of anti-sla...
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted Jayne Allen 9780063142992 Fiction Harper HarperCollins Read Jayne’s Inspiration for Black Girls Must Die Exhausted Black Girls Must Die Exhausted is the first of thre...
No Time to Die
No Time to Die Grace Edwards 9780385492478 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House The indomitable Harlem sleuth Mali Anderson is back, this time on a case that will become more personal than she ever ...
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin 9781509526406 Nonfiction Polity Press Polity Press Race After Technology is a brilliant, beautifully argued, engagingly wri...
Northbound: A Train Ride Out of Segregation
Northbound: A Train Ride Out of Segregation Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein 9780763696504 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites...
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History Rich Benjamin 9780593317396 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended...
Radiance Of Tomorrow
Radiance Of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah 9780374246020 Fiction Sarah Crichton Books Sarah Crichton Books A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way GoneWhen Ishmael Beah’s A Lo...
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois Stanley Crouch and Playtehll Benjamin 9780762413492 Nonfiction Running Press Hachette Book Group Sta...
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America
Benjamin Banneker: Genius of Early America Lillie Patterson 9780687029006 Nonfiction Abingdon Press Abingdon Press True, young Benjamin’s "eyes fairly danced with excitement," but it’s conta...
Nellie Y. McKay
Nellie Y. McKay 0000000081108566 Nellie Y. McKay, an influential figure in American literature, co-edited the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Her work highlighted the scholarly study...
Nikki Turner
Nikki Turner 0000000040675687 Nikki Turner, renowned as “The Queen of Hip Hop Fiction”, is an Essence best-selling author known for shedding light on the unseen side of street life. Balancing work an...
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon Touré 9781476705491 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Touré investigates o...
Selina Alko
Selina Alko NONE Selina Alko, a graduate from the School of Visual Arts, is a Brooklyn-based illustrator known for works like My Taxi Ride and My Subway Ride. She resides with her husband, Sean Quall...
Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko
Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko Derek Tyler Attico 9781803366258 Fiction Titan Books (UK) Titan Publishing Group The fascinating life of Starfleet’s celebrated captain, and Bajor’s Emissary of the Pro...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown 9781590795699 Nonfiction Select Books Select Books The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the...
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals
Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals Doug Melville 9781668005132 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Th...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised)
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780807846032 Nonfiction Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Pre...
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded
Negro in the Making of America: Third Edition Revised, Updated, and Expanded Benjamin Quarles 9780684818887 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The bestselling, definitive study of African Am...
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Dear Benjamin Banneker Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780152004170 Nonfiction Gulliver Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, ...
Lincoln and the Negro
Lincoln and the Negro Benjamin Quarles 9780306804472 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group First published in 1962, Lincoln and the Negro was the first book to examine in detail how Lincoln fac...
Black Abolitionists (Revised)
Black Abolitionists (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780306804250 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery moveme...
The Negro in the Civil War
The Negro in the Civil War Benjamin Quarles 9780306803505 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group "The Civil War was a revolution in many ways," writes Benjamin Quarles in this renowned...
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin MULTIPLE
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill MULTIPLE
A Project Chick
A Project Chick Nikki Turner 9781601626004 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Tressa is a fly girl accustomed to the lavish lifestyle that Lucky, her possessive, deranged baby daddy, has ...
I Don’t Want to Die Poor
I Don’t Want to Die Poor Michael Arceneaux 9781982129309 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called "a piece of ...
Die Free - A Heroic Family Tale
Die Free - A Heroic Family Tale Cheryl Wills 9781935098409 Fiction Bascom Hill Publishing Group Bascom Hill Publishing Group A TV journalist finds the most powerful story in her own family heritage ...
Those Who Ride the Night Winds
Those Who Ride the Night Winds Nikki Giovanni 9780688026530 Poetry William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Nikki Giovanni, long known as “the Princess of Black Poetry,” dedicates Those Who Ride the Nig...
Debra Phillips
Debra Phillips 0000000080337535 Debra Yvette Phillips is a diverse writer, creating works in categories like romance, mainstream, and chick-lit. She also writes under the pseudonym D.Y. Phillips, spe...
No More Tears In The End
No More Tears In The End Roy Glenn 9781601621627 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Following the death of Freeze, Mike Black and Bobby Ray are back in control of their organization, and ...
Ride Or Die
Ride Or Die Solomon Jones 9780312339890 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Seventeen-year-old Keisha is the beautiful, sheltered daughter of an activist pastor with a checkered past. Handsome, amb...
Get Honest or Die Lying (paperback): Why Small Talk Sucks
Get Honest or Die Lying (paperback): Why Small Talk Sucks Charlamagne Tha God 9781982173807 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Charlamagne Tha God, host of the m...
Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks
Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks Charlamagne Tha God 9781982173791 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Charlamagne Tha God, host of the morning radio...
Anne Spencer: "Ah, how poets sing and die!"
Anne Spencer: "Ah, how poets sing and die!" Anne Spencer 9781890306373 Poetry Salmon Salmon The title “Ah, how poets sing and die!” is likely a poetic reference to the work of Anne Spencer, a signific...
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams 9781560250623 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Though it would be hard to imagine an Americ...
To Live & Die in Amerikkka
To Live & Die in Amerikkka Kam Williams images/to_live_and_die_in_amerikkka.jpg Film Review Shocking Documentary Bemoans Skyrocketing Homicide Rate in Baton Rouge To Live & Die in Ame...
Heaven & Earth
Heaven & Earth J.M. Benjamin 9780981775654 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing The Columbians had Pablo Escobar… The Cubans had Scarface…The Italians had John Gotti…And the Broth...
Moth to a Flame: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Moth to a Flame: Tenth Anniversary Edition Ashley Antoinette 9781645560555 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left stand...
Moth to a Flame
Moth to a Flame Ashley Antoinette 9781601624796 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of cha...
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series)
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series) Amy Nathan 9781589880719 Nonfiction Paul Dry Books Paul Dry Books "A snapshot of the civil-r...
Saving Our Daughters: From A Man’s Point Of View Vol. 2
Saving Our Daughters: From A Man’s Point Of View Vol. 2 Curtis Benjamin 9780615292649 Nonfiction ICTBS Publishing ICTBS Publishing To Whom It May Concern: Saving Our Daughters Volume 2 is back and ha...
Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery
Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery Grace Edwards 9780385492485 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Harlem’s supersleuth Mali Anderson is back on the case in the fourth installment of Grace Edwards’...
Patricia Schultz
Patricia Schultz 000000010997263X Patricia Schultz, a seasoned travel journalist and author of #1 NYT bestsellers, '1,000 Places to See Before You Die' & its US/Canada edition. She's contributed to l...
Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!
Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun! Valerie Bolling 9781419756290 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams A joyful, rhyming picture book that is an ode to community and outdoor play Pedal, pump....
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound Andrea Davis Pinkney 9781596439733 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers From award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney comes the story ...
The King Must Die
The King Must Die Kemi Ashing-Giwa 9781668061015 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the USA Today bestselling author of The Splinter in the Sky comes a pulse-pounding science fiction adven...