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Shrine of the Black Madonna (Detroit)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Detroit) Detroit MI As of September 2021, the Bookstore is temporarily closed, but will reopen.
The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance and Nourisher of Souls
The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance and Nourisher of Souls Christena Cleveland 9798318601866 Nonfiction Hay House Penguin Random House The Black Madonna is an uncommon, dark-skinned version of the V...
Albert B. Cleage, Jr.
Albert B. Cleage, Jr. MULTIPLE Albert B. Cleage Jr., also known as Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman, was a Black nationalist Christian minister, author, and political organizer. He founded the Shrine of the Bl...
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta) Atlanta GA The Shrine Cultural Center & Bookstore is a separate component of the church located next door to our sanctuary building. The Shrine of the Black Madon...
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America Aaron Robertson 9780374604981 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers One of Literary Hub’s most anticipat...
How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass
How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass Aaron Foley 9781948742313 Nonfiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing In one of Curbed: Detroit’s Top 11 Books about Detroit, Aaron Foley, editor of The D...
Incidents At The Shrine
Incidents At The Shrine Ben Okri 9780099983002 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Fam...
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Tony Lindsay Book Review An effective novelist can change reality with their fiction. Many writers see and experience things that are unjust, and they react. They writ...
The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel
The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Zakes Mda 9780312423827 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers "A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice…[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us throu...
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook Aaron Foley 9780998904139 Nonfiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing Part of Belt’s Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook is an explorati...
Aaron Foley
Aaron Foley NONE Aaron Foley is a seasoned journalist and author with a passion for amplifying Black voices in media. Currently serving as senior digital editor for PBS NewsHour, he is also the found...
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination Herb Boyd 9780062346629 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “As a native Detroiter, I’m proud of the education I received at home, at the public sch...
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies Kam Williams Book Review “In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a best-selling author with an...
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback) Alice Randall 9780062970862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz,...
New World of Words: Black Writers and poets spin tales of imagination and reality from Detroit to the world
New World of Words: Black Writers and poets spin tales of imagination and reality from Detroit to the world Renee Prewitt Killingsworth Article Originally featured in Detroit’s Cityview News...
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846973666 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 1 in The Soul TrilogyDetroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twe...
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814329733 Poetry Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Do poets’ surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Aban...
The Edge of Yesterday
The Edge of Yesterday Rita Woods 9781250805645 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-w...
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City Felicia B. George 9780814350775 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Winner: A...
Jess Marie
Jess Marie NONE Jessica Marie Smith, known as Poet Jess Marie, is an inspirational writer from Detroit, MI, best known for her book “Anthology for Hope in the Hood.” A graduate of Michigan State Univ...
The Largest Black-Owned Bookstore Chain in the Country
The Largest Black-Owned Bookstore Chain in the Country Book Spotlights Naillah Nelson, the National Director of the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore. Describes the bookstore st...
Velma Maia Thomas
Velma Maia Thomas NONE Velma Maia Thomas is an award-winning author known for her nonfiction books on African American history. She is also the creator of the Black Holocaust Exhibit. With degrees fr...
Detroit
Detroit Kam Williams ../reviews/images/detroit.jpg Film Review Claustrophobic Docudrama Revisits ’67 Riots through the Prism of Infamous Interrogation at Algiers Hotel Very Good (★ύ...
Natives Of Detroit: Short Stories
Natives Of Detroit: Short Stories G. Louis Jackson 9781475042023 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC When you are far away from home—but live in southeastern Michigan, the population bedro...
Detroit Book City
Detroit Book City Lathrup Village MI Detroit Book City is a small independent brick-n-mortar bookstore. We sell new & used books including local Detroit and Afrocentric interests.Detroit Book City is ...
Greg Mathis
Greg Mathis 0000000034573270 Judge Mathis is a public servant and advocate for equal justice. His career began in college leading campaigns, later joining Detroit City councilman Clyde Cleveland's st...
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden 9781617755750 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise Song for the Butterflies addresses “Trokosi,” the practice of sending girls to shrines as s...
Jabari Osaze, Author, Historian, and Lecturer
Jabari Osaze, Author, Historian, and Lecturer MULTIPLE Jabari Osaze is an expert in Ancient African history, with over 25 years of focus on Ancient Kemetic spirituality. He conducts annual study tour...
Jabari Osaze
Jabari Osaze NONE Jabari Osaze, an expert in Ancient African history and spirituality, particularly Ancient Egypt, has led study tours to Egypt since 2002 and monthly tours to renowned museums. He se...
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel Blair Underwood and Joe McClean 9780063316782 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Harlem Shuffle meets The Godfather in this fierce and dazzling crime family saga ...
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers Bridgett M. Davis 9780316558730 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group "This outstanding book is a tribut...
Lives Laid Away (An August Snow Novel)
Lives Laid Away (An August Snow Novel) Stephen Mack Jones 9781616959593 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown...
The Colored Car
The Colored Car Jean Alicia Elster 9780814336069 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who’s Jim Hines?...
Marvin V. Arnett
Marvin V. Arnett NONE Marvin V. Arnett, a retired Federal Manager from Detroit, had a successful career receiving numerous awards for job performances and cost-cutting suggestions. She served as Nati...
Tommie Thomas
Tommie Thomas NONE Tommie Lee Thomas, a determined individual of Cherokee Indian and African descent, overcame poverty and adversity to become a retired employee of Ford Motor Company, the City of De...
Rochelle Riley
Rochelle Riley NONE Rochelle Riley, Director of Arts and Culture for Detroit, is a celebrated author, essayist, and advocate for children and education. Known for her award-winning work at the Detroi...
Rashad Phillips
Rashad Phillips NONE Rashad Phillips is an American former professional basketball player and author. Born on May 5, 1978, in Detroit, Michigan, he played as a 5-foot 9-inch guard. Phillips had a not...
Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis NONE Bridgett M. Davis is a Detroit-born author, professor, and filmmaker. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University, she now teaches English at Baruch College. Her film...
Once Upon A Time In Black America-Part I-RAW
Once Upon A Time In Black America-Part I-RAW Tommie Thomas 9781986184977 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The first part of the series will shatter your perception of youth and the wonders...
Kweku Abimbola
Kweku Abimbola NONE Kweku Abimbola, a poet of West African descent, is known for his acclaimed poetry collection “Saltwater Demands a Psalm.” His work explores themes like colonization and climate ch...
God’s Will and Other Lies: Stories
God’s Will and Other Lies: Stories Camille-Yvette Welsch Book Review “[T]here was so much hurt and pain and fear and sorrow … that I needed more than one kind of song to sing,” says...
Black Food
Black Food Robert Fleming Book Review Black food, aka Soul food, is celebrated all over the world for its delicious ingredients, tangy flavors, homegrown recipes, and traditional richness. This book,...
2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf
2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf 2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf The Detroit Writer?s Guild in partnership with the University of Detroit Mercy proudly announce the 2002 Midwest Poets & Wr...
Boys Come First
Boys Come First Aaron Foley 9781953368256 Fiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows...
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits Tiya Miles 9781620972311 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Finalist for the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book PrizeNo...
Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt
Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt Marvin V. Arnett 9780803210646 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quil...
Renee Prewitt Killingsworth
Renee Prewitt Killingsworth NONE Renee Prewitt Killingsworth, a Chicago native with over 15 years in public relations, began her career as a radio talk show host. She's active in southeast Michigan c...
John Conyers Jr.
John Conyers Jr. 0000000025669916 John Conyers Jr. was a long-serving Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan, representing Detroit and its surrounding areas from 1965 t...
Desiree Cooper
Desiree Cooper NONE Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, ex-attorney, Pulitzer-nominated journalist, and Detroit activist. She has contributed fiction and poetry to numerous publications an...
A Fist for Joe Louis and Me
A Fist for Joe Louis and Me Trinka Hakes Noble 9781534110168 Fiction Sleeping Bear Press Sleeping Bear Press 2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Gordy and his family live in Detr...
Screams Across Time
Screams Across Time Tommie Thomas 9781986049382 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Fog enshrouds the road leading to a rural country Church encased in flames for a bomb has reduced it to rub...
August Snow (An August Snow Novel)
August Snow (An August Snow Novel) Stephen Mack Jones 9781616957186 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Winner of the Hammett PrizeFrom the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit’s bankrupt factory distr...
Citycide: A Danny Cavanaugh Mystery
Citycide: A Danny Cavanaugh Mystery Gary Hardwick 9780972480468 Nonfiction HardBooks Publishing HardBooks Publishing A woman is murdered and the only witness to the crime is missing. Danny Cavanaugh, ...
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...
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir) E. J. Olsen 9781933354392 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of tho...
Overturned
Overturned Michael Lee 9780976683018 Fiction Michael C. Lee Michael C. Lee Overturned is the sequel to Michael C. Lee’s debut novel, Chandler Park Drive. Readers are re-acquainted to fictional charac...
Memories of Yesterday
Memories of Yesterday Cheryl Robinson 9780972086707 Fiction Sterling Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Porter Washington is a handsome Detroit Firefighter trying to live on twenty-seven thousand doll...
Stephen Mack Jones
Stephen Mack Jones 000000050165955X Stephen Mack Jones is an acclaimed poet, playwright, and recipient of the Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship. After years in advertising, Jones now resides...
Lee E. Meadows
Lee E. Meadows NONE Lee E. Meadows, a native Detroiter and Michigan State University graduate, is a multi-faceted professional with experience in academia, corporate training, and media. He has held ...
Michael Lee
Michael Lee NONE Michael C. Lee, a retired Detroit Police Department Inspector, has a 20-year service history with notable roles in Gang Enforcement and Carjacking Task Force. He has a background in ...
Sylvia Hubbard
Sylvia Hubbard NONE Sylvia Hubbard, a Detroit native and single mother, is a prolific romance author with over 40 books to her name. She founded the Motown Writers Network and co-created The Essence ...
Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall 0000000114554651 Dudley Randall (1914-2000), a prominent Detroit poet and publisher, began his career at 13 with his first publication. He founded Broadside Press in 1965, promoting Af...
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...
Tommye Blount
Tommye Blount 0000000497978952 Tommye Blount is a Cave Canem alumnus and acclaimed author of 'What Are We Not For' and 'Fantasia for the Man in Blue', which was recognized by the National Book Awards...
John Conyers III
John Conyers III NONE John Conyers III, as the son of former Congressman John Conyers, Jr., and former City Council President Monica Conyers, John brings a unique perspective to community service and...
Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love
Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love Edwina Louise Dorch 9781663234056 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions This fast-paced contemporary, novel, set in Los Angeles, can be read on a b...
Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints Alice Randall 9780062968623 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and...
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit, 1960-1995 Julius E. Thompson 9780786422647 Fiction McFarland McFarland In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a...
Osun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity
Osun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity Diedre Badejo 9780865433557 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press What does our sophisticated, technical...
DuEwa M. Frazier
DuEwa M. Frazier NONE DuEwa Frazier is an accomplished writer, educator, and poet, renowned for her literary contributions and educational initiatives. Born in Brooklyn and raised in St. Louis, she f...
Marc W. Polite
Marc W. Polite NONE Marc W. Polite, an award-winning writer from NYC, founded the blog, Polite On Society, and was recognized for “Best Blog Commentary” in 2014. His political commentaries have been ...
The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World
The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World Armond White 9780879515867 Nonfiction The Overlook Press The Overlook Press Dust jacket notes: "This provocative first collection of essay...
Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture Michael Eric Dyson 9780195115697 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press A former welfare father from the ghetto of Det...
My Name is Butterfly
My Name is Butterfly Bernice L. McFadden X007SGEM3A Fiction Naki Publishing Naki Publishing Republished, under a new title (Praise Song for the Butterflies) from Akashic Books The #12 Bestselling ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Queen Afua
Queen Afua 0000000513485286 Queen Afua is a renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and spiritual healer, specializing in women's health. She is a Khamitic priestess, yoga teacher, and founder of ...
Finding La Negrita
Finding La Negrita Natasha Gordon-Chipembere 9781938841897 Fiction Jaded Ibis Press Jaded Ibis Press Finding La Negrita is a captivating retelling of the Black Madonna narrative, a story deeply intert...
The Truth about the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, Vol. X No. 1
The Truth about the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, Vol. X No. 1 Michael Datcher 9781945171819 Nonfiction Loyola Marymount University & the Department of English Loyola Marymount U...
Christena Cleveland
Christena Cleveland NONE Christena Cleveland Ph.D., a social psychologist, public theologian, and activist, is the founder of the Center for Justice + Renewal. A former Duke University professor, she...
I See Color
I See Color Valerie Bolling and Kailei Pew 9780063234260 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins For fans of The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison, I See Color is a pi...
The Villain’s Dance
The Villain’s Dance Fiston Mwanza Mujila 9781646051274 Fiction Deep Vellum Publishing Deep Vellum Publishing Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain’s Dance shows Fiston M...
The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir
The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir Timbaland and Veronica Chambers 9780061936968 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy B...
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...
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) (Volume 83)
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) (Volume 83) bell hooks 9780415389587 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary...
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 ...
The Stork Market
The Stork Market Kam Williams Book Review ’Adoption pits woman against woman, rich against poor, making it painfully difficult to look at and admit. Adoption is racist and classist and of...
Djimon Hounsou - The "Never Back Down" Interview
Djimon Hounsou - The "Never Back Down" Interview Kam Williams Interview Djimon Announces Plans to Pop the Question Born in Cotonou, Benin on April 24, 1964, Djimon Gaston Hounsou emigrat...
Hoyt Fuller
Hoyt Fuller NONE Hoyt W. Fuller was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement as an editor, educator, critic, and author. He founded the OBAC writers' collective, edited the influential Negro Digest/Bl...
Clarence Lusane
Clarence Lusane 0000000109374330 Dr. Clarence Lusane, a respected scholar and activist, specializes in human rights, global race relations, U.S. politics, and international relations. Born in Detroit...
The World According to Fannie Davis
The World According to Fannie Davis Tony Lindsay Book Review The World According to Fannie Davis is the story of a Black woman who became a numbers’ banker, which was a miraculous accomplishmen...
The Center of the Movement: Collecting Hip Hop Memorabilia
The Center of the Movement: Collecting Hip Hop Memorabilia Khalid el-Hakim 9781517563141 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Authored by Khalid el-Hakim and Dr. Derrick Jenkins, The Cente...
Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press Melba Joyce Boyd 9780231130264 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press And as I groped in darkness and felt the...
Color Of Justice: A Novel Of Suspense
Color Of Justice: A Novel Of Suspense Gary Hardwick 9780688165147 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Acclaimed author, screenwriter, and filmmaker Gary Hardwick has been called "the Elmore Leonard o...
Kai Harris
Kai Harris NONE Kai Harris is a Detroit-born writer and educator based in the Bay Area. She uses her talent in realistic fiction to uplift the Black community. In addition to being an author, she is ...
Tyehimba Jess
Tyehimba Jess 0000000044353175 Congrats to Tyehimba Jess: Winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Tyehimba Jess, a Detroit native, is an award-winning poet and professor. His first book, Leadbelly, won ...
Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts
Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. 9798989142309 Nonfiction Letterform Archive Books Letterform Archive Books Two sets of 20 unique let...
Dark Secret
Dark Secret Elizabeth Atkins 9781945875069 Nonfiction Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Two Sisters Writing and Publishing RACE, SEX & SECRETSSPARK DEADLY DRAMATwo beautiful sisters spark a scandal o...
Grind City: A Danny Cavanaugh Mystery (Danny Cavanaugh Mysteries) (Volume 4)
Grind City: A Danny Cavanaugh Mystery (Danny Cavanaugh Mysteries) (Volume 4) Gary Hardwick 9780985475949 Fiction HardBooks Publishing HardBooks Publishing A black woman is stopped by police and taken ...
Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt
Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt Walter Benefield Book Review Marvin Sprague says that her mother’s favorite quilts to make were what she called ’Crazy Quilts.’ She defines these qui...