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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Javaka Steptoe 9780316213882 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A visually stunning picture book biograp...
Javaka Steptoe Reads from Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat 9783775725934 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first African-American a...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have Jean-Michel Basquiat 9783775741842 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag Language in the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, from graffiti to word as motifIn t...
Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat MULTIPLE Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat ar...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Kam Williams images/4-JMB.jpg Film Review Bio-Pic Recounts Brash Artist’s Meteoric Rise and Untimely Demise Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Chil...
Rudy Chiappini and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Rudy Chiappini and Jean-Michel Basquiat MULTIPLE Rudy Chiappini and Jean-Michel Basquiat are renowned figures in the art world. Chiappini is an esteemed curator, while Basquiat was a groundbreaking...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time Dieter Buchhart, Franklin Sirmans, Olivier Berggruen, Glenn Obrien, and Christian Campbell 9783791354576 Nonfiction Prestel Publishing Penguin Random House A thema...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Rudy Chiappini and Jean-Michel Basquiat 9788876242649 Nonfiction Skira Rizzoli Controversial cult artist, enfant terrible of the art world, friend of Haring and Warhol, and both...
Basquiat-isms
Basquiat-isms Jean-Michel Basquiat 9780691192833 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Mich...
Javaka Steptoe
Javaka Steptoe 0000000031897560 Javaka Steptoe, son of award-winning author/illustrator John Steptoe, is a renowned illustrator. Known for using everyday objects and mixed media to create vibrant and...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood Ben Okri 9783775753319 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first book on Basquiat’s ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials. ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat 0000000121272943 “Believe it or not, I can actually draw.” Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was a prominent artist known for his unique, vibrant style that helped shap...
John Steptoe
John Steptoe 0000000083178664 John Lewis Steptoe (1950-1989) was a renowned children's book author and illustrator from Brooklyn, NY. Known for his rich illustrations depicting the African American e...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v3 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 20...
The Notebooks
The Notebooks Jean-Michel Basquiat 9780691167893 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of ...
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Maya Angelou 9781419727481 Nonfiction Stewart, Tabori & Chang Rizzoli International Publications Maya Angelou’s unforgettable poem is matched with the daring art of Jean-Miche...
To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
To Repel Ghosts: The Remix Kevin Young 9780375710230 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures...
The Jones Family Express
The Jones Family Express Javaka Steptoe 9781584302629 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Steven adores listening to stories about his Aunt Carolyn’s travels but has always been too young to go on...
Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer 0000000120198120 Jean Toomer (1894-1967), born as Nathan Pinchback Toomer, was a leading African American poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism. Born to wealthy parent...
Michel Marriott
Michel Marriott NONE Michel Marriott was a renowned journalist for over 20 years with The New York Times and other publications. He was also a celebrated memoir workshop instructor at Baruch College,...
Moonwalking
Moonwalking Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann 9780374314378 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this...
The Slave Who Loved Caviar
The Slave Who Loved Caviar Ishmael Reed 9781648230165 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught rel...
Kevin Young
Kevin Young 0000000109530225 Kevin Young, born in 1970, is a renowned poet and teacher influenced by Hughes, Berryman, Dickinson, and Basquiat. A Harvard graduate, Young authored multiple poetry book...
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale John Steptoe 9780140559460 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House This is the tale of Mufaro’s two daughters, two beautiful girls who react in differe...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America
Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America Karine Jean-Pierre 9781335014887 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press “Karine Jean-Pierre illuminates her pat...
My Soul To Take: A Novel
My Soul To Take: A Novel Tananarive Due 9781439176146 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Essence bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due delivers a heart-stopping new n...
Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema
Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Just-Wright.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessmen...
Do You Know What I’ll Do?
Do You Know What I’ll Do? Charlotte Zolotow 9780060278793 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins In this celebration of a sister’s special love for her brother, a little girl imagines all the ways she wi...
Jean Alicia Elster
Jean Alicia Elster NONE Jean Alicia Elster, a 2017 Kresge Artist Fellow and former attorney, is an acclaimed author of children's novels. Her book, The Colored Car, was a 2014 Michigan Notable Book a...
The Artist
The Artist Kam Williams theartist_movieposter.jpg Film Review Fading Star Falls for Emerging Ingenue in B&W Homage to Silent Era The Artist Rated PG-13 for a crude gesture and a disturb...
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Toni Morrison Lecture Series "Create dangerously...
Daddy is a Monster … Sometimes
Daddy is a Monster … Sometimes John Steptoe 9780397317622 Fiction J. B. Lippincott HarperCollins Bweela and Javaka relate the incidents that make Daddy a monster in their eyes.
Getting Up and Getting On
Getting Up and Getting On Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Time Can Help Heal Wounds Second time novelist MBridges is back with another Betty Jean title; Getting Up and Getting On. Th...
Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936 (Revised)
Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936 (Revised) Nellie Y. McKay 9780807841716 Poetry University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Jean Toomer’s...
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa Michael D. Harris 9780295979335 Nonfiction Oakland Museum of California Oakland Museum of California "Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exc...
Radiant
Radiant Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780593855782 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A historical middle-grade novel in verse from multiple Coretta Scott King winner Vaunda Micheau...
Morris Jean Publishing
Morris Jean Publishing Morris Jean Publishing Morris Jean Publishing, LLC
Morris Jean Publishing
Morris Jean Publishing Morris Jean Publishing, LLC Morris Jean Publishing
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines Karine Jean-Pierre 9781538777084 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group A groundbreaking, revelatory assessment of America’s...
Kathleen Eagle, Sandra Kitt, and Ruth Jean Dale
Kathleen Eagle, Sandra Kitt, and Ruth Jean Dale MULTIPLE Kathleen Eagle, Sandra Kitt, and Ruth Jean Dale are prominent authors known for their significant contributions to the literary world. They ha...
Doris Jean Austin
Doris Jean Austin 0000000084312407 Doris Jean Austin (1949-1994) was an accomplished journalist from Mobile, Alabama, known for her contributions to Essence magazine and her novel, “After the Garden”...
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Jean-Philippe Marcoux 0000000108385791 Jean-Philippe Marcoux is a Professor of American Literature at Laval University, specializing in African American literature, postmodernist fiction, poetry, and...
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels MULTIPLE Jean Marie Wiesen, is a noted investigative author and mystery crime writer. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman.
Jean Besson
Jean Besson 0000000108983118 Jean Beason is a renowned researcher and author specializing in cultural history, kinship, gender, and ethnicity among other areas. She published a book on creolization a...
Jean “Binta” Breeze
Jean “Binta” Breeze 0000000025335932 Jean “Binta” Breeze (1956–2021) was a renowned Jamaican poet who published eight books and performed globally. She first gained recognition in 1985 at the Inter...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle MULTIPLE Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, is renowned for his ...
Patrick Saint-Jean
Patrick Saint-Jean NONE Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ, is a Haiti-born psychoanalyst and Ignatian spirituality practitioner based in the US. He serves as a regent at Creighton University, teaching psycholog...
King Me
King Me Roger Reeves 9781556594489 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press On the Best Poetry Books of the Year” list from Library Journal A sophisticated and breathtaking writer, Reeves take...
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell Karen Walrond 9781506487632 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? What if t...
Three Days As The Crow Flies: A Novel
Three Days As The Crow Flies: A Novel Danny Simmons 9780743466417 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Back in the day, sex, drugs, and Run-DMC ruled. New York City during the 1980s ...
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 Kevin Young 9780385351508 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordina...
Ghosts of Saint-Michel
Ghosts of Saint-Michel Jake Lamar 9780312289256 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Marva Dobbs has a life most people would envy. An American who has lived in Paris for most of her adult life, she ...
The Matrix Cultural Revolution: How Deep Does the Rabbit Hole Go?
The Matrix Cultural Revolution: How Deep Does the Rabbit Hole Go? Michel Marriott 9781560255741 Nonfiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press The Matrix, a cyberpunk thriller about computer h...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture Fab 5 Freddy 9780593834909 Nonfiction Viking Penguin Random House Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more “Everybody’s F...
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America Greg Tate 9780374394608 Nonfiction AUWA Books Macmillan Publishers A reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a ...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan Darryl Pinckney 9781250893550 Nonfiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his...
Harlem at Four
Harlem at Four Michael Datcher 9780593429334 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A stunning picture book comprised of two incredible stories— the first part of the book chronicles the adv...
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture Robert G. O’Meally 9780231189194 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Ralph Elli...
Broke Baroque
Broke Baroque Tony Medina 9780988476356 Fiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina. With razor sharp scatological whimsy,...
The Black Interior: Essays
The Black Interior: Essays Elizabeth Alexander 9781555973933 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press With a poet’s precision and an intellectually adventurous spirit, Elizabeth Alexander explores a w...
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and...
I Am Billie Jean King
I Am Billie Jean King Brad Meltzer 9780735228740 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Billie Jean King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Read about this amazing woman athlete in...
A Pocketful of Poems
A Pocketful of Poems Nikki Grimes 9781328497963 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Tiana has a pocketful of words: green words like spring, night words like moon, and words ...
Jerome Lagarrigue
Jerome Lagarrigue 0000000403502938 Jerome Lagarrigue, a Paris-raised artist, moved to the US in 1992 and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. He has won prestigious awards including the Core...
Children of God Storybook Bible
Children of God Storybook Bible Desmond Tutu 9780310719120 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Creating the first truly global Bible for children of all nationalities, Desmond Tutu...
The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming Jean-Martin Fortier 9780865717657 Nonfiction New Society Publishers New Society Publishers Grow better not bigger...
Third World Girl: Selected Poems (With Live Readings DVD)
Third World Girl: Selected Poems (With Live Readings DVD) Jean “Binta” Breeze 9781852249106 Poetry Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books Jean “Binta” Breeze was a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller who...
The True History of Paradise: A Novel
The True History of Paradise: A Novel Margaret Cezair-Thompson 9780812979831 Fiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jama...
Tangerine (Shades Of Style, Book 3)
Tangerine (Shades Of Style, Book 3) Marilynn Griffith 9780800730420 Fiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Fans of Pink and Jade will eat up Tangerine, the third book in the cutting-...
Jean Marie Wiesen
Jean Marie Wiesen NONE Jean Marie Wiesen, a noted investigative author and mystery crime writer, is author of Case of the Missing Look Alikes and Case of the Mouse Trap Legend. She attended Art Cent...
Karine Jean-Pierre
Karine Jean-Pierre 0000000500800507 Karine Jean-Pierre is the former White House Press Secretary and Senior Advisor to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Born in Martinique and raised in New York by Hait...
The Heart of the Artist
The Heart of the Artist Rory Noland 9780310224716 Fiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Over 100,000 sold •Great for individuals and teams •Includes provocative discussion q...
A Pocketful of Poems
A Pocketful of Poems Nikki Grimes 9780395938683 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Tiana has a pocketful of words: green words like spring, night words like moon, and words with wings, like angel....
In Praise Of Our Fathers And Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury By Outstanding Authors And Artists
In Praise Of Our Fathers And Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury By Outstanding Authors And Artists Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780940975590 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. For...
Cane
Cane Jean Toomer Excerpt Introduction to Cane As it appeared in the Perennial Classic edition copyright 1969 by Arna Bontemps LOOKING back on the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s,...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Baby Says
Baby Says John Steptoe 9780062847539 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins Baby wants what babies always want: to get big brother’s (or sister’s) attention! "The author-artist depicts the tender, carin...
The Skull Cage Key: A Novel
The Skull Cage Key: A Novel Michel Marriott 9781932841305 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Chinese New Year, 2042. Armstrong, an upwardly mobile Harlem resident, is out celebrating with his ...
The Story of Jumping Mouse
The Story of Jumping Mouse John Steptoe 9780688087401 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins "You will reach the far-off land if you keep hope alive within you." The words of Magic Frog give courage to t...
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 9781639368136 Nonfiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Boo...
Shane W. Evans
Shane W. Evans 0000000038504360 Shane Evans is a renowned illustrator, artist and designer whose work has been recognized by The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and The Orbis Pictus Award. His illustrat...
Going Down South: A Novel
Going Down South: A Novel Bonnie J. Glover 9780345480910 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House From the author of The Middle Sister comes a heartwarming tale of second chances and the unpa...
Who’s Jim Hines?
Who’s Jim Hines? Jean Alicia Elster 9780814334027 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-ye...
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre MULTIPLE Claudia Aguirre is a GLAAD & Eisner nominated writer and artist, and co-founder of Boudika Comics. Natacha Bustos is a Spanish comic artist k...
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...
The Mad Sister
The Mad Sister Carol Denise Mitchell 9781462675630 Fiction America Star Books America Star Books Mercy Jean Diamond was the fat, un-liked daughter of a good doctor and deranged mother who hated her. A...
Ruthless Pamela Jean
Ruthless Pamela Jean Carol Denise Mitchell 9798668234479 Fiction Carol Denise Mitchell Carol Denise Mitchell Young, Pamela Jean had been abused her whole life, because of her strong negro features and...
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Imani Perry 9780807064498 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet...
Phetote Mshairi
Phetote Mshairi NONE Phetote Mshairi is a multi-talented artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He's a poet, author, entrepreneur, performing artist, mentor, and more. With a B.B.A. in Business Management, Msh...
A Boss Lady’s Heart
A Boss Lady’s Heart Michel’le Moore 9781511504409 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Novea Harris better known as Blade Is a Jamaican native who has inherited her father Janjak’s empire afte...
Shadra Strickland
Shadra Strickland NONE Shadra Strickland, an award-winning illustrator and teacher, studied at Syracuse University and the School of Visual Arts. She won the Ezra Jack Keats and Coretta Scott King/Jo...
Julia D. Shaw
Julia D. Shaw NONE Julia D. Shaw is a seasoned marketing expert with over 20 years experience in PR, events, and business development. As a PR consultant for The Network for Women in Business and fou...