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Freedom Riders (American Experience)
Freedom Riders (American Experience) Kam Williams images/Sprite%20117.jpg Film Review American Experience: Freedom Riders Click to buy via Amazon.com Number of discs: 1 Rated: NR (...
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Alice Dunbar-Nelson 0000000081179540 Check out Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was an acclaimed American journalist, political act...
Alternate Sources
Alternate Sources Lamar Brantley 9798994134108 Fiction Ramal Cire Creative Ramal Cire Creative Charlie Thomas, a lover of jazz and jazz musicians, and nicknamed “Ms. Black Corporate America” by her be...
Stanley G. Robertson
Stanley G. Robertson NONE Stanley G. Robertson is a professor of business and law at DeVry University in Chicago. He is the host and producer of the television show titled, The Ink Spot, on CA...
Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson 0000000038009108 Kadir Nelson is a renowned American artist and illustrator with a Bachelor's degree from Pratt Institute. Known for his work with major clients like Sports Illustrated, ...
Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy, and Stanley Bennett Clay
Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy, and Stanley Bennett Clay MULTIPLE Stanley Bennett Clay, Terrance Dean, and James Earl Hardy are prolific authors known for their significant contributions to literatu...
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson 0000000081267022 Marilyn Nelson, former Poet Laureate of Connecticut, is a three-time National Book Award Finalist, Annisfield-Wolf Award winner, and author of acclaimed titles like 'T...
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch Stanley Crouch 9781324090908 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020,...
Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Stanley Lane-Poole 9781549802409 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, is an iconic ...
Stanley Lane-Poole
Stanley Lane-Poole 0000000123213357 Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931) was a London-born scholar who worked at the British Museum, researched Egyptian archaeology in Egypt, and later served as a Professo...
Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch 000000011474616X Stanley Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was born in Los Angeles. He was an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelis...
Stanley Gazemba
Stanley Gazemba 0000000045040728 Stanley Gazemba, born 1974 in Kenya, is a renowned author of three novels and eight children's books, with his work recognized by the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for fiction....
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Carole Boston Weatherford 9780063205291 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From the 2025 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner, New York Ti...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Larry Dane Brimner 9781629795867 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner On May 4, 1961, a group of thi...
Nelson Beats The Odds
Nelson Beats The Odds Ronnie Sidney, II 9780996532426 Fiction Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words Nelson used to think school was all about playing around...
Lori Nelson Lee
Lori Nelson Lee NONE Lori Nelson Lee, author of children's books like 'Hillary’s Big Business Adventure' and 'Danica Dramatica - Queen Me', introduces entrepreneurship to young readers. Her works are...
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker Stanley Crouch 9780062005595 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first instal...
How Stanley Got His Back in Groove
How Stanley Got His Back in Groove James Earl Hardy B0093LWVYK Fiction I A J Books I A J Books What happens when Stanley Brewster, a 40-year-old "born-again" virgin, runs into Robert "B...
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz Stanley Crouch 9780465015122 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Stanley Crouch-MacArthur Genius” Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, ...
Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives
Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives Stanley Crouch 9780375701689 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically conten...
Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas MULTIPLE Prince Rogers Nelson, known as Prince, was an iconic musician celebrated globally. Randee St. Nicholas is an acclaimed photographer and director,...
The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run
The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run Zuksiwa Wanner 9781782693079 Nonfiction Pushkin Children’s Books Pushkin Press The story of Nelson Mandela’s early years on the run from the apartheid au...
All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson
All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781528717908 Poetry Ragged Hand Ragged Hand Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American journalist, political activis...
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 0000000084378609 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an award-winning children's author and librarian. She penned “Bad News for Outlaws,” which won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award, and...
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green 9781501382307 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing “A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.” - Boo...
The Darkest Hearts
The Darkest Hearts Nelson George 9781617758096 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "We’re big fans of music mysteries here at CrimeReads, so I’m psyched for the new Nelson George…A complex mystery tha...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Kadir Nelson 9780061730795 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, written an...
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela Kadir Nelson 9780061783746 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins One day when Nelson Mandela was nine years old, his father died and he was sent from his village to a school fa...
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama Sophia Nelson 9781935618942 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books Stereotypes aren’t funny when they...
Let’s Get It On: A Novel
Let’s Get It On: A Novel Jill Nelson 9780060763305 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “Sister Jill isn’t just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She’s our commander-in-chief and follo...
The Honeymoon Is Over
The Honeymoon Is Over Keith Lee Johnson 9781601620170 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black Girl Lost II, Keith Lee ...
Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island
Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island Jill Nelson 9780385505666 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In this elegant book of photographs, personal narrative, memories,...
Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman Jill Nelson 9780140277241 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The face of journalism was forever changed after Jill Nelson came along...
Nelson George
Nelson George 0000000115805862 Nelson George, born in 1957, is a renowned columnist, critic, journalist, filmmaker, and author of 21 books, including bestseller 'The Michael Jackson Story'. A pioneer...
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove MULTIPLE Prominent authors Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, ...
Adiba Nelson
Adiba Nelson NONE Adiba Nelson is a Black author and speaker who advocates for inclusion. Known for her 2013 children's book, Meet ClaraBelle Blue, which represents her special needs Afro-Latinx daug...
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela 9780316548182 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of o...
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell 9780767924900 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Ran...
Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice
Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice James Haskins 9780940975941 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. "The Freedom Rides were a brief moment in the civil rights movement, but they captured the atte...
Prince Rogers Nelson
Prince Rogers Nelson 0000000120964892 Prince Rogers Nelson, known as Prince, was an influential American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. Famous for his eclectic work, flamboyant ...
Steve Parke
Steve Parke 0000000121259052 Prince’s Former Art Director Steve Parke is an award-winning illustrator, designer, and photographer. He worked for Prince for 13 years as his in-house art director...
Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa
Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa Nelson Mandela 9781934941782 Nonfiction Red and Black Publishers Red and Black Publishers For 30 years, the Afric...
Juneteenth Rodeo
Juneteenth Rodeo Sarah Bird 9781477329542 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now a...
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026 Marilyn Nelson 9780807187265 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a...
Nelson Publishing, LLC
Nelson Publishing, LLC Nelson Publishing, LLC Nelson Publishing, LLC
Nelson Publishing, LLC
Nelson Publishing, LLC Nelson Publishing, LLC Nelson Publishing, LLC
Lubaya’s Quiet Roar
Lubaya’s Quiet Roar Marilyn Nelson 9780525555551 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House In this stirring picture book about social justice activism and the power of introverts, a quiet girl’s artwork...
Let ’er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion
Let ’er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9781512498080 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Nelson plaits her narrative with Western lingo and homesp...
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela 9781631491177 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company "Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified … ...
Seduced
Seduced Nelson George 9780345412669 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel … It’s the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man ...
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9780195052503 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press "Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s journalism—especially her column for The ...
Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales
Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales MULTIPLE Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales are renowned authors known for their insightful contributions in the field of literature. Havelock Nelson and ...
Jill Nelson
Jill Nelson 0000000066956364 Jill Nelson, a seasoned journalist from Harlem, is a graduate of the City College of New York and the Columbia School of Journalism. Her work has graced various publicati...
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela 0000000121447715 Nelson Mandela, born July 18, 1918, was South Africa's first black President from 1994-1999, and ANC party President from 1991-1997. After 27 years in prison, he was r...
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson 0000000505162647 A 2021 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer based in London. Known for his n...
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit Stanley Gazemba 9780998642307 Fiction The Mantle The Mantle Desperate to make ends meet, Ombima commits a “harmless” crime. When he tries to conceal his misdeed, the simple farm labore...
Callused Hands
Callused Hands Stanley Gazemba 9781926906324 Fiction Nsemia Inc. Publishers Nsemia Inc. Publishers Kenyan coffee is renowned all over the world for its distinctive quality and hence reputation. It gr...
The Artificial White Man: Essays On Authenticity
The Artificial White Man: Essays On Authenticity Stanley Crouch 9780465015160 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial W...
The Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves
The Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves Rupert Roopnaraine 9781900715867 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In this critical investigation of one of the Caribbean’s most distinguish...
Don’t The Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel In Blues And Swing
Don’t The Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel In Blues And Swing Stanley Crouch 9780375724473 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Stanley Crouch’s gloriously bold first novel provides an intimate and epic po...
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois
Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folk: Thoughts On The Groundbreaking Classic Work Of W.e.b. Dubois Stanley Crouch and Playtehll Benjamin 9780762413492 Nonfiction Running Press Hachette Book Group Sta...
One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris
One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris Stanley Crouch 9780810932722 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent bl...
The All-American Skin Game, Or Decoy Of Race: The Long And The Short Of It, 1990-1994
The All-American Skin Game, Or Decoy Of Race: The Long And The Short Of It, 1990-1994 Stanley Crouch 9780679776604 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House In this brilliantly acerbic collection of ess...
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’I
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’I Fay Stanley 9780027867855 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. The moving story of a young woman who sh...
Notes Of A Hanging Judge: Essays And Reviews, 1979-1989
Notes Of A Hanging Judge: Essays And Reviews, 1979-1989 Stanley Crouch 9780195069983 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Stanley Crouch identifies the civil rights movement of t...
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 Stanley Crouch 9780195055917 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Stanley Crouch, the rarely acknowledged but epic nature ...
Jupiter Hammon and Stanley Austin Ransom
Jupiter Hammon and Stanley Austin Ransom MULTIPLE Sure, I'd be happy to help. Could you please provide me with the author's bio that you would like summarized?
Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon
Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon MULTIPLE "Explore the works of authors Randy Ross, Wanda Coleman, Stanley Crouch, Gary Phillips, Octavia Butl...
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Chris van Wyk 9781596435667 Nonfiction Flash Point Flash Point Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, offers a glimpse into the mind of a great lead...
Sandra L. Richards
Sandra L. Richards 0000000084226541 Sandra L. Richards, an American-born daughter of Jamaican immigrants and author of the debut children's book “Rice & Rocks”, aims to educate about cultural diversi...
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation Lindsey McDivitt 9780802855022 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Kirkus Starred Review: "Beauti...
Baby Bear Board Book
Baby Bear Board Book Kadir Nelson 9780062931573 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins The acclaimed tale of a lost little bear searching for home from Caldecott Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winner...
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela Jennifer Crwys-Williams 9780802779304 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I ha...
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems Marilyn Nelson 9780807121757 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the s...
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela Robert Fleming Book Review One of the greatest assignments of my career as a newspaper reporter was covering South African leader, Nelson Mandela, who had just been r...
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs 9781450810302 Fiction West Side Publishing West Side Publishing Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today explores the story of the Afri...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Kam Williams mandela-2013-alternate-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom In Theaters: Nov 29, 2013 Limited PG-13 for sexuality, intense violence...
A Carnival Jangle
A Carnival Jangle Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781037403415 Fiction Macmillan Collector’s Library Macmillan Publishers From the landmark writer and activist of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar Nelson, A C...
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game Kadir Nelson 9780316209403 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Kadir Nelson, award-winning creator, delivers the perfec...
Open Water
Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 9780802157942 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso...
Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President
Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President Suzy Capozzi 9780553513431 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This Step 4 leveled reader about Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Pr...
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute Maya Angelou 9780812997019 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around th...
Meet ClaraBelle Blue
Meet ClaraBelle Blue Adiba Nelson 9780989191906 Fiction RocketChair Productions RocketChair Productions 2016 ROYAL DRAGONFLY WINNER - HONORABLE MENTION: CHILDREN’S BOOK/SPECIAL NEEDS Meet ClaraBell...
Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom Nelson Mandela 9781451675399 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the heart and soul of visionary Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, a collecti...
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011 Marilyn Nelson 9780807147344 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries...
Hillary’s Big Business Adventure (The Adventures Of Hillary)
Hillary’s Big Business Adventure (The Adventures Of Hillary) Lori Nelson Lee 9780979417108 Nonfiction Nelson Publishing, LLC Nelson Publishing, LLC Hillary is a 5th-grader from Baltimore, Maryland who...
Police Brutality: An Anthology
Police Brutality: An Anthology Jill Nelson 9780393321630 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A landmark work by twelve leading critics and community leaders―essential readin...
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience Jill Nelson 9780140237160 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington Post’...
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2 Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9780195052510 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical sho...
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3 Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9780195052527 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical sho...
People of Color in Louisiana
People of Color in Louisiana Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781979797627 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Alice Dunbar Nelson was a social activist and reformer, journalist and poet. She was one ...
Alexis Nikole Nelson
Alexis Nikole Nelson NONE Alexis Nikole Nelson is a Wild Food Maker at BlackForager
Anthony Mackie - The "Crossover and Half Nelson" Interview (2006)
Anthony Mackie - The "Crossover and Half Nelson" Interview (2006) Kam Williams Interview at the 2008 Tribeca All Access awards A graduate of Juilliard, classically-trained Anthony Mackie is...
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America Eugene Robinson 9781982176716 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene...
7 Conversations to Freedom!: a manifesto
7 Conversations to Freedom!: a manifesto Walt Goodridge 9781481236461 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This book is part of The Integrated Life™ series. THE CONCEPT: "In the pursuit of ...
Freedom Train
Freedom Train Evelyn Coleman 9781442436527 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boy’s struggle to help freedom triumph over fe...