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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe Stephon Alexander 9780465093571 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A spectacular musical and scientific journey f...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics Stephon Alexander 9781541699632 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying ap...
Ronald L. Mallett
Ronald L. Mallett 0000000053466980 Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, a notable physicist and one of the first African-American Ph.D. holders in theoretical physics, is known for his time travel theory. With deg...
Stephon Alexander
Stephon Alexander NONE Stephon Alexander, a physics professor at Brown University and 2020 president of the National Society of Black Physicists, specializes in string cosmology. He co-invented a mod...
Clifford V. Johnson
Clifford V. Johnson 0000000108556351 Clifford V. Johnson received the American Association of Physics Teachers 2018 Klopsteg Memorial Award for outstanding communication of the excitement of contempo...
Philosophy in the West Indian Novel
Philosophy in the West Indian Novel Earl McKenzie 9789766402150 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Earl McKenzie’s pioneering philosophical study of the...
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy George Yancy 9780739138823 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington Books The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophe...
Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy George G. M. James 9780865433625 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The book is an attempt to show that ...
Race, Philosophy, And Film (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Philosophy)
Race, Philosophy, And Film (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Philosophy) Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Dan Flory 9780415624459 Fiction Routledge Routledge This collection fills a gap in the current li...
The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy
The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy George Yancy 9780742513426 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philo...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America Cornel West 9781138147157 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge ’The sheer range of West’s interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America Cornel West 9780415964814 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge ’The sheer range of West’s interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally...
Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis 0000000110323039 Angela Davis is a renowned American political activist, scholar, and author. Notably active in the 1960s, she was a key figure in the Communist Party USA and the Civi...
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9780231185479 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press What does it mean t...
The Philosophy and Platform of the New Afrikan Independence Party: The Political Education and Community Organizing Series: Module #1: Booklet Edition
The Philosophy and Platform of the New Afrikan Independence Party: The Political Education and Community Organizing Series: Module #1: Booklet Edition Khalid Raheem 9781070795720 Nonfiction Independen...
African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude
African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Chike Jeffers 9781635423211 Nonfiction Other Press (NY) Other Press This critically acclaimed study ...
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Onaje X. O. Woodbine NONE Onaje X.O. Woodbine, Ph.D. holder from Boston University, is a philosophy and religious studies teacher at Phillips Academy. Author of 'Black Gods of the Asphalt', he is als...
Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy
Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780195160284 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here is a thorough, vividly written introd...
African Religions & Philosophy
African Religions & Philosophy John S. Mbiti 9780435895914 Nonfiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt African Religions and Philosophy is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief tha...
Race
Race Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of original essays investigates one of the least-explored topics in the philosophy of film and the philosophy of race: the nexus of our ideas ...
Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman 0000000108989755 Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum, is a renowned author of philosophical books translated into multiple languages. She also contributes to cultural and politi...
Beauty Bragg
Beauty Bragg 0000000125620829 Beauty Bragg is a Professor of African American Literature at Georgia College with a BA from USC and a MA and Ph.D from UT Austin. She authored a book exploring black wo...
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization Lewis R. Gordon 9780367632465 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge The eminent scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a probing meditation on freedom, justice, and decolonizatio...
Postcolonial Bergson
Postcolonial Bergson Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9780823285822 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ev...
The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America
The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America Mark Mathabane 9781510712614 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing A roadmap to healing America’s wo...
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy George Yancy 9781438447445 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press A groundbreaking cont...
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy Lewis R. Gordon 9780521675468 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first co...
Philosophy in Multiple Voices
Philosophy in Multiple Voices George Yancy 9780742549555 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and th...
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston Deborah G. Plant 9780252021831 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press In a ground-...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Chike Jeffers
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Chike Jeffers MULTIPLE Souleymane Bachir Diagne, a Philosophy professor at Columbia University, has contributed to African studies and written books like The Ink of the S...
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 ...
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for de-Colonization
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for de-Colonization Kwame Nkrumah 9780901787118 Nonfiction Panaf Books Panaf Books Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for de-colonisation Kwame Nkrumah Kwame ...
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: An Author You Should Know
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: An Author You Should Know Troy Johnson Article Dr. Welsing's book the The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors [1991, Third World Press] has been a best selling book on ...
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
Quantum Lyrics: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393333121 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Fearless hybridization…. Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and j...
Walter E. Massey
Walter E. Massey 0000000023739132 Walter E. Massey, born in 1938, is a gifted mathematician and physicist. He was the first African American physics professor at Brown University and served as the Ch...
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Maggie Aderin-Pocock 0000000453783176 Dame Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, PhD, is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you “don’t need a ...
Chris Abani
Chris Abani 0000000083877772 Chris Abani, born in Nigeria in 1966, is a renowned author and educator who faced imprisonment for his literary work. After escaping to the US, he published eight books o...
The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures Of An Urban Astrophysicist
The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures Of An Urban Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781591021889 Nonfiction Prometheus Books Prometheus Books This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s life...
Experiments in Ethics (Flexner Lectures)
Experiments in Ethics (Flexner Lectures) Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780674026094 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press In the past few decades, scientists of human nature—including ...
In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780195068511 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Africa’s intellectuals have long been engaged in...
Leadership: Philosophy Ethics & Practice
Leadership: Philosophy Ethics & Practice Agyei Tyehimba 9798411782141 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Effective leadership is a formidable weapon and shield for subjugated p...
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience Chris Young 9780316565288 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, senten...
Tanzania: A Journey Within (2014) - Film Review
Tanzania: A Journey Within (2014) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Tanzania: A Journey Within In Theaters: Apr 25, 2014 Limited Unrated Running time: 103 minutes Distributor: Heretic F...
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism Cornel West 9780299119607 Nonfiction University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cor...
Afropessimism
Afropessimism Frank B. Wilderson III 9781631496141 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political univer...
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy Fred Lee Hord 9781625341761 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press First published in 1995, I Am Because We...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America Cornel West 9780415904865 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In this powerful collection by one of today’s leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Fai...
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans: Or, Africa for the Africans
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans: Or, Africa for the Africans Marcus Mosiah Garvey 9780912469249 Nonfiction The Majority Press Black Classic Press A Collectors...
Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Tony Martin 9780912469195 Nonfiction The Majority Press Black Classic Press In September 1937, three years before his ...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne 0000000121380637 Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a philosophy professor and Director of African Studies at Columbia University. His notable works include 'The Ink of the Scholars...
Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge
Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge George Yancy 9781438440026 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Reflections by le...
In These Houses
In These Houses Brenda Marie Osbey 9780819521460 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press There is more to the poems than the title reveals; the first poem is actually called “In The...
Going Postal
Going Postal Kam Williams Book Review "Rage as we know it today did not exist when Ronald Reagan took power in 1981. The word stress had a far less lethal meaning then. The vise hadn’t ye...
The Power of Awareness
The Power of Awareness Neville Goddard 9780399162664 Nonfiction TarcherPerigee Penguin Random House A beautiful edition of one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and intriguing works on how to u...
Vincent Comes Home
Vincent Comes Home Jessixa Bagley 9781626727809 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers Jessixa Bagley, author and illustrator of Laundry Day, Before I Leave, and Boats For Papa (winner of th...
The Multicultural Math Classroom: Bringing in the World
The Multicultural Math Classroom: Bringing in the World Claudia Zaslavsky 9780435083731 Nonfiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt All over the world, in all eras of history, people have developed...
The Power of Blogs Part 4
The Power of Blogs Part 4 Troy Johnson Article Well it has been three weeks since the last post to my Blog. Hey it has been a busy three weeks with Christmas, New Years and everything else that goes ...
Greenland (paperback)
Greenland (paperback) David Santos Donaldson 9780063159563 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing a...
Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Essex Hemphill 9780811232340 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor,...
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation Lynn Nottage 9781559362795 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “Lynn Nottage’s work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities...
Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America
Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America Larry Elder 9780312320171 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America s...
Then She Said It
Then She Said It Osonye Tess Onwueme 9780962886423 Fiction African Heritage Press African Heritage Press The play is set in the metaphoric state of Hungaria. Nagging questions and concerns fuel the st...
Wildavsky Forum Series
Wildavsky Forum Series William Julius Wilson 9780520222267 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press In a work that will significantly influence the political discussion...
R.L. Byrd
R.L. Byrd NONE R.L. Byrd, born in Brunswick, Georgia, was raised by his grandparents and developed an “old soul” from their stories, shaping his writing style. Pursuing interests in Architecture and ...
The Collection Plate: Poems
The Collection Plate: Poems Kendra Allen 9780063048478 Poetry Ecco Press HarperCollins A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the ...
Renaissance Men: Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity
Renaissance Men: Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity Harriet A. Washington 9780316583602 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winni...
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs 9780374178710 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals...
Robyn C. Spencer
Robyn C. Spencer 0000000117365645 Robyn C. Spencer is a historian and Associate Professor at Lehman College, CUNY. She specializes in post-WWII social protest, urban and working-class radicalism, and...
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage Lee Bennett Hopkins 9781620143117 Poetry Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From the joyous to the poignant, poems by award-winning, diverse poets are paired wi...
MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction
MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction Chad Harbach 9780865478138 Nonfiction n+1 n+1 Writers write―but what do they do for money?In a widely read essay entitled "MFA vs NYC," bestselling nov...
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Tcg Edition)
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Tcg Edition) Lynn Nottage 9781559364423 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group "Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic, a...
Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement
Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement Yohuru Williams 9780415826143 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge The African American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century is one of the most important ...
Immortal 4: Collision Of Worlds (Volume 4)
Immortal 4: Collision Of Worlds (Volume 4) Valjeanne Jeffers 9781475112993 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Now including the stunning foreword by Charles Saunders, "Sister Moon Rising,...
Liberating Teaching and Learning: Turn it Upside Down and Watch African Americans (All Learners) Soar!
Liberating Teaching and Learning: Turn it Upside Down and Watch African Americans (All Learners) Soar! Bettye Chitman Haysbert 9781733494311 Nonfiction Learning to Read Our Way Learning to Read Our W...
Kevin McGruder
Kevin McGruder 0000000071766805 Kevin McGruder is an Assistant Professor of History at Antioch College with interests in African American institutions, urban history, and gay and lesbian history. He ...
Kingsley H. Smith
Kingsley H. Smith NONE Kingsley H. Smith is a seasoned radio broadcaster with experience in top US markets like NYC, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. An accomplished program director and announcer, ...
Ronald Kuykendall
Ronald Kuykendall NONE Ronald Kuykendall, a magna cum laude graduate in political science from Southern University, is a teacher at Greenville Technical College, South Carolina. He shifted from his i...
Derrick Ferguson
Derrick Ferguson NONE "Derrick Ferguson, a Brooklyn native, is an author and podcast co-host with a love for classic pulps, comic books, and pop culture. Married for over 30 years, he enjoys explorin...
Corinda Pitts Marsh
Corinda Pitts Marsh NONE Corinda Pitts Marsh, a Florida State University graduate, is a writer and professor specializing in rural Southern heritage and social justice themes. She is passionate about...
The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense
The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense Maya Contreras 9780063487239 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An incisive investigation into how language ha...
President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy
President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy Manu Herbstein 9789988233075 Fiction Manu Herbstein Manu Herbstein President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the W...
Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait
Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait Molefi Kete Asante 9780745648286 Nonfiction Polity Press Polity Press In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theor...
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time Series)
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time Series) Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780393061550 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A moral manifesto that for...
Rooted in the Chants of Slaves, Blacks in the Humanities, 1985-1997: A Selected Annotated Bibliography
Rooted in the Chants of Slaves, Blacks in the Humanities, 1985-1997: A Selected Annotated Bibliography Donald Franklin Joyce 9780313304774 Nonfiction Greenwood Press Greenwood Publishing Group Blacks ...
Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book One
Shadow Speaker: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book One Nnedi Okorafor 9780756418762 Fiction Daw Books Astra Publishing House Amazon Editor’s Pick, Best SFF September 2023 - The Strand, Science Fictio...
Be Epic
Be Epic Hisani P. Dubose 9781075902512 Nonfiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Being happy does not mean that everything goes your way and you never have problems. Nor does it...
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe Clifford V. Johnson 9780262536080 Fiction MIT Press The MIT Press A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects tha...
Rashida Aisha Ali
Rashida Aisha Ali NONE Rashida Aisha Ali, an author, artist, and educator, specializes in female-centric topics including health, wellness, and spirituality. With degrees in Divinity and Metaphysics,...
Michael Gurian
Michael Gurian 0000000084041467 Michael Gurian, a social philosopher, family therapist, and bestselling author, has pioneered efforts in neurobiology and brain research. He has worked as a consultant...
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9781952485930 Nonfiction Redhawk Publications Redhawk Publications Last of the Lions is two histories wov...
John S. Mbiti
John S. Mbiti 0000000110268607 “The Father of Contemporary African Theology... Canon John Samuel Mbiti, a Kenyan-born Anglican priest, is a renowned theologian, educator, and author. Formerly a...
As If: Idealization and Ideals
As If: Idealization and Ideals Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780674975002 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplifi...
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom Rubin Carter and Ken Klonsky 9781569765685 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Fr...
Steven Todd Fisher
Steven Todd Fisher NONE Ayna Rayne is an award-nominated, genre-defying author who captivates readers with her experimental storytelling. She blends elements of romance, drama, mystery, philosophy, a...
Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit
Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit Queen Afua Excerpt CHAPTER 1 KHAMITIC NUBIAN PHILOSOPHY THEY SAY OUR WAY IS DEAD. THEY SAY OUR WAY IS NO MORE. THAT THE NI...
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics Thomas Sowell 9780688029630 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Sowell leads the listener through the Marxian scheme of ideas, shattering some existing interpreta...
Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil’s Excellent Bromance
Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil’s Excellent Bromance Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Shatner B0G7L5C6FR Nonfiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing Experience an unscripted conversation be...
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith 9780393866889 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Our true origins are not only ...
Blind Light
Blind Light Carol Taylor Book Review In 2001, visionary social justice advocate, Glenda R. Taylor was struck with a potentially devastating illness that took most of her sight. Instead of retreating ...