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Doug and Jackie Christie
Doug and Jackie Christie MULTIPLE Doug & Jackie Christie are both natives of Seattle, WA. Jackie, a former model turned fashion designer, owns her own clothing boutique and label. Doug, a former NBA ...
These Bodies
These Bodies Morgan Christie 9781948800365 Fiction Tolsun Books Tolsun Publishing Fiction. Short Stories. African & African American Studies. These Bodies, a collection of eleven stories by Morgan Chr...
R. Gregory Christie
R. Gregory Christie 000000011492849X R. Gregory Christie is a seasoned commercial artist with over 20 years of experience. He's illustrated 50+ children's books, designed album covers and worked with...
The United States V. Jackie Robinson
The United States V. Jackie Robinson Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen 9780062287847 Nonfiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins A moving and inspiring nonfiction picture book about Jackie Robinson’ss cou...
No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball!
No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball! Doug and Jackie Christie 9780979482700 Nonfiction Infinite Love Publishing Infinite Love Publishing Doug Christie is a world-class profession...
Jackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist
Jackie Ormes Draws the Future: The Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist Liz Montague 9780593426548 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A stirring picture-book biography about Jac...
42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero Doreen Rappaport 9780763676247 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press An eye-opening look at the life and legacy of Jackie ...
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship Tania Grossinger 9781620876831 Fiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Thirteen-year-old Tania Grossinger lives in the famous Grossinger hotel in New York’s...
Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie Jessixa Bagley 9781534496583 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A middle schooler’s plan to fit in with her new friends by writing herself a fake love ...
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes Traci N. Todd 9781338305906 Nonfiction Orchard Books Orchard Books An evocative picture book biography about the prolific life of Jackie Ormes, ...
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Jackie Sibblies Drury NONE Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright, known for plays including 'We Are Proud to Present...' and 'Really'. Her work has been showcased by prominent institut...
I Am Jackie Robinson
I Am Jackie Robinson Kam Williams Book Review An AALBC.com Bestselling Book May/June 2015 Book Reviewed by Kam Williams “Jackie Robinson learned to be brave when he was very young. He gre...
Luv-Pons: A Fun Variety Love & Romance Guide For Couples
Luv-Pons: A Fun Variety Love & Romance Guide For Couples Doug and Jackie Christie 9780979482793 Nonfiction Infinite Love Publishing Infinite Love Publishing You’ve seen Doug and Jackie Christie on The...
Jackie Jones
Jackie Jones NONE Dr. Jackie Jones Dr. Jackie Jones, also known by her pseudonym Harriet Berrien is an African American writer inspired by Black history. She was born on July 30, 1951, in Augusta, Ge...
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been Jackie Hill Perry 9781462751228 Nonfiction B&H Publishing Group LifeWay Christian Resources This is the testimony of author, tea...
Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson: A True Story about Jackie Robinson
Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson: A True Story about Jackie Robinson Sharon Robinson 9780545052511 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball ...
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America Sharon Robinson 9780439425926 Nonfiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. School Library JournalSTARRED (March 1, 2004; 0-439-42592-1) Gr 4-7 -In ca...
The Billion Dollar BET
The Billion Dollar BET Rondall Brasher Book Review Brett Pulley goes all in with The Million Dollar BET, Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television. He has woven a tale of...
Runaway Soul
Runaway Soul Tiffani Quarles-Sanders 9780986331961 Fiction Hollow Bridge Publishing Hollow Bridge Publishing Jackie Macon has built a successful career for herself, first as a special-needs teacher, t...
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett 9780060555979 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins The Autobiography of a Boy of Summer Who Became a Man for ...
Sharon Robinson
Sharon Robinson 0000000084195482 Sharon Robinson, Jackie Robinson's daughter and acclaimed author, is known for her fiction and nonfiction works, many of which honor her father's legacy, including re...
Jackie Chanel
Jackie Chanel NONE Jackie Chanel, a contemporary romance author, began her writing career in high school. She wrote her first novel in Youngstown, Ohio. Now residing in Atlanta, her characters reflec...
Ed Gordon
Ed Gordon 0000000045843168 Ed Gordon is an esteemed journalist with a career spanning various TV networks like BET, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS. Known for hosting shows like Conversation with Ed Gordon, BET ...
The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television
The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television Brett Pulley 9780471423638 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Praise for The Billion Dollar BET "In a gripping narrat...
Conversation with the Mann
Conversation with the Mann Thumper Book Review Not since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has a first person narrative novel struck me with such a poignant sense of completeness and satisfaction a...
Proud To Be A Colored Girl
Proud To Be A Colored Girl Doug and Jackie Christie 9780979482762 Fiction Infinite Love Publishing Infinite Love Publishing The age-old stereotyping of African American women has gone on practically u...
Woman: A Practical Guide To Loving The Skin You’re In
Woman: A Practical Guide To Loving The Skin You’re In Doug and Jackie Christie 9780979482748 Nonfiction Infinite Love Publishing Infinite Love Publishing Women wear many hats living in these high-tech...
I Am Jackie Robinson
I Am Jackie Robinson Brad Meltzer 9780803740860 Nonfiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspir...
Degrees Of Deception
Degrees Of Deception Kimberly Thacker Webb 9781491715000 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Jackie Jones is a wealthy but naive college student from Texas who knows there are two things her mother exp...
Jackie Robinson: American Hero
Jackie Robinson: American Hero Sharon Robinson 9780545540063 Nonfiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, is the author of several wor...
Jackie Ormes
Jackie Ormes 0000000055572904 Jackie Ormes, the first nationally syndicated African-American woman cartoonist, revolutionized the portrayal of black characters in the 1930s-50s. Her four comic strips...
Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie Hill Perry 0000000500194914 Jackie Hill Perry, born June 21, 1989, is a St. Louis-based writer, poet, and artist. Recognized by the Washington Times, The 700 Club, and other publications, she ...
when they come
when they come Morgan Christie 9781838251611 Poetry Black Sunflowers Poetry Press Black Sunflowers Poetry Press “and what if colonization could be a satirical sci-fi epic” —some imagined ghost “...
The Travelers
The Travelers Regina Porter 9780525576204 Fiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Named one of the best books of the year by Esquire - Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut...
Kim Coles
Kim Coles 0000000031521651 Kim Coles, best known for her role as “Synclaire” in FOX's 'Living Single', has starred in many TV programs including 'Frasier', 'Six Feet Under', and 'In Living Color'. Sh...
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BET's Hot Ghetto Mess or Stop supporting the negative literature
BET's Hot Ghetto Mess or Stop supporting the negative literature Troy Johnson Article A prominent individual in Black publishing recently suggested that “I choose a side”. Basically I need to stop su...
Bob Johnson: The “Urban Movie Channel” Interview
Bob Johnson: The “Urban Movie Channel” Interview Kam Williams Interview Robert L. “Bob” Johnson is the Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies, an innovative business network tha...
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America Howard Bryant 9780063308169 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “I loved this book…. I looked forward to reading Howard ...
Three Bullet Opera
Three Bullet Opera Gary Phillips 9798896920830 Fiction Writ Large Press Writ Large Press Former Army investigator and ex–Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputy Jackie Alvarez is drawn into a dangerous new case ...
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter Michael G. Long and Yohuru Williams 9780374389956 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers...
Jupiter Storm
Jupiter Storm Marti Dumas 9781943169320 Fiction Yes, Mam Creations Plum Street Press A curious chrysalis changes Jackie’s life forever.Ten-year-old Jackie excels at being in charge. Her skills keep ev...
April R. Silver
April R. Silver NONE April R. Silver is a renowned marketing strategist, cultural curator, and social justice activist. As the founder of AKILA WORKSONGS, she's known for creating influential social ...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir Robert Fleming Book Review Blessed with a candor, boldness, and business savvy rarely seen in books of this type, former CEO of Black Entertainment Television network Debra L...
Michael Gordon Bennett
Michael Gordon Bennett NONE Author, actor, and entrepreneur Michael Gordon Bennett, born in 1958, is known for his book “7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid.” He's also the CEO of B...
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll Tonya Bolden 9780062994387 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “A profile as bold and vivac...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy Tony Medina 9780998799940 Fiction Penny Candy Books Penny Candy Books Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina offers a fresh perspective of young...
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781619635548 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A 2017 New York Public Library Best Kids Book of the Year ...
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration Of Rosa, Barack, And The Pioneers Of Change
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration Of Rosa, Barack, And The Pioneers Of Change Michelle Cook 9781599907833 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing This unique picture book i...
Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today
Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today Eboni K. Williams 9780306828645 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Essence Magazine 2023 Must Read Journalist, attorney, and st...
SECRETS World Premieres, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. on BET
SECRETS World Premieres, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. on BET Troy Johnson Article One Man’s Lustful Affair, A Brother's Jealousy and A Wife’s Suspicions Collide and Unravel a Once Perfect Home in Debu...
The Book Of Negroes: A Novel (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Movie Tie-In Editions)
The Book Of Negroes: A Novel (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Movie Tie-In Editions) Lawrence Hill 9780393351392 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel...
Paul Porter
Paul Porter 0000000032557824 Paul Porter is a seasoned radio, music, and television professional with four decades of experience. Known for his deep voice and expertise, Porter has spent 10 years at ...
Bob Johnson - The Who’s Your Caddy Interview
Bob Johnson - The Who’s Your Caddy Interview Kam Williams Interview First Black Billionaire Gives His Two Cents on Everything from Making Movies to Making Money Robert L. Johnson was b...
Ed Gordon - The Daddy's Promise Interview
Ed Gordon - The Daddy's Promise Interview Kam Williams Interview Ed with Daughter Taylor Edward Lansing Gordon, III was born in Detroit in 1960. Both his parents, Ed and Jimmie, we...
Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television
Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television Donald Bogle 9780374237202 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of Afr...
Camp Twisted Pine
Camp Twisted Pine Ciera Burch 9781665930574 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Whispering Pines meets Small Spaces in this spooky “part campfire tale, part eco-fable, all charm...
Who Was Jackie Robinson?: A Who Was? Board Book
Who Was Jackie Robinson?: A Who Was? Board Book Lisbeth Kaiser 9780593223437 Nonfiction Rise X Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House The latest addition to the Who HQ program: board book biographies o...
Saving Her Shadow
Saving Her Shadow Lutishia Lovely 9781496724434 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Lutishia Lovely is back and it’s a matter of life and death in this witty, wise new novel where family, fanat...
The Dragon Keep
The Dragon Keep Marti Dumas 9781943169368 Fiction Yes, Mam Creations Plum Street Press Keeping a dragon can be dangerous, especially if you must keep it a secret.The seeds of magic spread when ten-ye...
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro Jackie Kay 9781786829740 Fiction Oberon Books Bloomsbury Publishing I want to find it all now know our names know the others in history so many women have been lost at sea so many stori...
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Yea
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Yea Jackie Sibblies Drury 9781472585097 Fiction Bloom...
A Hustler’s Promise
A Hustler’s Promise Jackie Chanel 9781468081961 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC From the Kindle Bestselling author of Change of Heart…"Fans of Winter Santiaga are going to love Jaicyn Jon...
Darling: New & Selected Poems
Darling: New & Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775 Poetry Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these thing...
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training Chris Lamb 9780803229563 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press In the spring of 1946, following the...
Southland
Southland Nina Revoyr 9781888451412 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "[A]n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr’s novel is honest in detailing southern California’s brut...
Trumpet
Trumpet Jackie Kay 9780375704635 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House "Supremely humane…. Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love." —The New York Times Book...
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Jackie Robinson: A Biography Arnold Rampersad 9780345426550 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale...
The Adoption Papers
The Adoption Papers Jackie Kay 9781852241568 Poetry Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl’s adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the...
Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay 0000000108753136 Jacqueline Margaret Kay is a celebrated author and former National Poet of Scotland known for her memoir Red Dust Road and various acclaimed poetry collections. Her first ...
Michael G. Long
Michael G. Long NONE Michael G. Long is a distinguished author and editor specializing in civil rights and gender issues. Known for his in-depth works on key American historical figures like Jackie R...
Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love Kam Williams brotherly-love.jpg Film Review Brotherly Love In Theaters: Apr 24, 2015 Limited Rated: R for violence, profanity and ethnic slurs Genre: Drama Written & Directed By...
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been Amanda Robinson Book Review In the midst of arguably a time of the greatest push for the advocacy of LGBT acceptance, Jackie Hi...
Barbershops, Bibles, And Bet: Everyday Talk And Black Political Thought
Barbershops, Bibles, And Bet: Everyday Talk And Black Political Thought Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell 9780691114057 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press What is the best...
Brenda Jackson
Brenda Jackson 0000000117535931 Jackson is New York Times bestselling with of 150 romance novels. Brenda Jackson, a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, has written over 150 novels and nov...
Keith Boykin
Keith Boykin 0000000034973717 Keith Boykin is a multi-talented author, political science professor at Columbia University, CNN commentator, and actor with a history of LGBT advocacy. A Harvard and Da...
Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill 0000000055257314 In November 2017 Marc Opened a boostore in Philadelphia Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is a renowned intellectual voice, anthropologist of e...
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige 000000006310393X Mary J. Blige, born in 1971, is a globally recognized singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. She has won nine Grammy Awards, an Emmy, and multiple honors, inclu...
N’Tyse
N’Tyse NONE N'Tyse, a wife, mother, and Dallas native, is a multitalented novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. With a background in banking and a degree from Arizona State University, she is ce...
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song Tara T. Green 9780814254714 Fiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press In Reimagining ...
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing Christine List 9780883783351 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Christine Houston wrote Two Twenty Seven, a p...
Colored Television
Colored Television Danzy Senna 9780593544372 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial c...
Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963)
Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963) Sharon Robinson 9781338282801 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the c...
Go And Tell Pharaoh
Go And Tell Pharaoh Al Sharpton 9780385475839 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The personal memoirs of controversial figure Reverend Al Sharpton follow the tragedy that tore his family apart, hi...
Holly
Holly Albert French 9780670857463 Fiction Viking Press Penguin Random House A poor, white girl in 1944 North Carolina finds her lonely life transformed by a handsome, educated black soldier, but th...
Liberty and Sexuality, the Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
Liberty and Sexuality, the Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade David J. Garrow 9780025427556 Nonfiction Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Employs material taken from hundreds of interviews and...
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition Lerone Bennett 9780140178227 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Traces black history from its origins in western Afri...
Alex Haley’s Queen: The Story Of An American Family
Alex Haley’s Queen: The Story Of An American Family Alex Haley and David Stevens 9780688063313 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Tracing his family history on his father’s side, the author of Ro...
Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters
Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters Mary Helen Washington 9780060975036 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Maya Angelou provides the foreword for this collection of po...
Waiting To Exhale
Waiting To Exhale Terry McMillan 9780670839803 Fiction Viking Press Penguin Random House Waiting to Exhale is on President Obama’s Bookshelf Four African-American women console and support o...
Troy Pappy Johnson
Troy Pappy Johnson NONE Troy “Pappy” Johnson, a Brooklyn native, is a Howard University graduate and US Army veteran. He has had a successful career in Theatrical/Film Production in NYC, working with...