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Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress Alicia D. Williams 9780593123683 Nonfiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House Discover the inspiring story of Shirley Chis...
Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781534463523 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Three starred reviews! “History shines” (School...
Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm’s Fight for Change
Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm’s Fight for Change Tameka Fryer Brown 9781728420080 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Shirley Chisholm was a natural-born fighter. She didn’t like to be bossed and ...
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm Katheryn Russell-Brown 9781620143469 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisho...
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy Shirley Strawberry 9780345525505 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Listen up, ladies! Shirley Strawberry...
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million Tanya Smith 9780316569163 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group “What Does It Ta...
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers)
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers) Tanya Lee Stone 9780763651176 Nonfiction Candlewick Press C...
Who Was Shirley Chisholm?
Who Was Shirley Chisholm? Crystal Hubbard 9780593750261 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Read all about the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in this empowering addition to t...
Unbought and Unbossed
Unbought and Unbossed Shirley Chisholm 9780063160873 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Her motto and title of her autobiography—Unbossed and Unbought—illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and m...
Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Shirley Chisholm 9780980059021 Nonfiction Take Root Media Take Root Media Unbought and Unbossed is Shirley Chisholm’s account of her remarkable...
Casting the First Stone (Special Edition, 1st Curtis Black Novel)
Casting the First Stone (Special Edition, 1st Curtis Black Novel) Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781496716392 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kimberla Lawson Roby’s Thoughts on Concluding Her Revere...
The Watcher
The Watcher Nikki Grimes 9780802854452 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company A poetic story inspired by Psalm 121 Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. ...
I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From...My Hair!
I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From...My Hair! Tanya Wright 9781493582211 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Actress Tanya Wright (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, TRUE...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers Tanya Lee Stone 9780763665487 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press World War II is raging, a...
Casting the First Stone (Reverend Curtis Black #1)
Casting the First Stone (Reverend Curtis Black #1) Kimberla Lawson Roby 9780758201799 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kimberla Lawson Roby’s Thoughts on Concluding Her Reverend Curtis Black...
Tanya’s Reunion: Sequel to the Patchwork Quilt
Tanya’s Reunion: Sequel to the Patchwork Quilt Valerie Flournoy 9780803716056 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House When she and her grandmother go to help with preparations for a big family reunion...
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics Juanita Tolliver 9781538770221 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outs...
Fighting Shirley Chisholm
Fighting Shirley Chisholm James Haskins 9781944455309 Nonfiction LibraryPress@UF UF Press and George A. Smathers Libraries Shirley Chisholm’s dynamism, intellect, and devotion led her to become the fi...
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm J. P. Miller 9781731638038 Nonfiction Discovery Library Discovery Library LEADERS LIKE US: In this illustrated biography, elementary-aged readers will learn about the early life and ...
Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman Catherine Scheader 9780894902857 Nonfiction Enslow Publishing Enslow Publishing LLC A biography of, Shirley Chisholm the first black woman to run for presi...
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture Shirley Neal 9780063080836 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Cult...
The Good Fight
The Good Fight Shirley Chisholm 9780063160828 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President ...
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb Veronica Chambers 9780803730892 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Veronica Chambers is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults, including Mama’s...
The Hunt for the Magic Pearl
The Hunt for the Magic Pearl Shirley Perry-Church 9781480814813 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The Hunt for the Magic Pearl is the first in a series of planned books that will be filled wit...
The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear
The Courage To Hope: How I Stood Up To The Politics Of Fear Shirley Sherrod 9781451650945 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a med...
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois Gerald Horne 9780814736487 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twenti...
Trouble at the Hair Salon
Trouble at the Hair Salon Tanya Wright 9781464253119 Fiction Sourcebooks Young Readers Sourcebooks Hip, hip, hooray! It’s Fri-yay! With her parents out of town, Hairiette gets to spend the whole we...
Great Birthday Surprise!
Great Birthday Surprise! Tanya Wright 9781464243875 Fiction Sourcebooks Young Readers Sourcebooks Hip, hip, hooray! It’s Hairiette’s Birthday! With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked ...
Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories
Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories Tanya Batson-Savage 9789769543676 Fiction Blue Moon Publishing Blue Moon Publishing Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories is a collection of five folk tales for children. Th...
Butterfly Rising
Butterfly Rising Tanya Wright 9781453650363 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Lilah Belle has always been a trifle odd to folks in her tiny town of Lucasville; a "singer who didn’t sing no ...
Every Woman Needs A Wife
Every Woman Needs A Wife Naleighna Kai 9781593090609 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bursting with originality and controversy, author Naleighna Kai has created a provocative, and at time...
The Family Business 7: New Orleans
The Family Business 7: New Orleans Carl Weber and C. N. Phillips 9781645565611 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Keep up with the Duncan family down South as we travel to New Orleans in ...
A Cloud of Women: The Powerful Connection Between Black Women and Women of the Bible
A Cloud of Women: The Powerful Connection Between Black Women and Women of the Bible Georgia A. Hill and Diane Proctor Reeder 9781640702578 Nonfiction Our Daily Bread Publishing Our Daily Bread Publis...
Las Madres
Las Madres Esmeralda Santiago 9780307962614 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race...
From Beauty to Business: The Guaranteed Strategy to Building, Running, and Growing a Successful Beauty Business
From Beauty to Business: The Guaranteed Strategy to Building, Running, and Growing a Successful Beauty Business Kiyah Wright and Shirley Neal 9781637740910 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books You...
Playing the Cards You’re Dealt
Playing the Cards You’re Dealt Varian Johnson 9781338348538 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author...
Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Al Sharpton 9781335966629 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press A rousing call to action for today’s turbulent political moment, drawing...
A Black Woman Did That
A Black Woman Did That Malaika Adero 9781941367513 Nonfiction Downtown Bookworks Downtown Bookworks Download: A Black Woman Did That: A Playlist and Reader’s Guide A Black Woman Did That! spotlight...
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel Bernardine Evaristo 9780802156983 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood … An...
At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White
At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White April Ryan 9781442265639 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April...
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford 9781849352079 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought ...
The Courage To Hope
The Courage To Hope Shirley Sherrod 9781451651010 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sherrod was a lifelong activist who served as Georgia’s first black director of rural development. In th...
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780547906041 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus ...
Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series)
Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series) Shirley A. James Hanshaw 9781604734218 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Yu...
Passing into Light
Passing into Light Sharon Ewell Foster 9781590520666 Fiction Multnomah Penguin Random House The characters that readers loved in Riding Through Shadows are at it again! Mother and Ma Dear, Tony Taylor...
Story of Phyllis Wheatley: The Poetess of the American Revolution
Story of Phyllis Wheatley: The Poetess of the American Revolution Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671297626 Nonfiction Pocket Books Pocket Books
Du Bois: Pictoral Biography
Du Bois: Pictoral Biography Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780874850765 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa
Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671327163 Nonfiction Julian Messner Julian Messner A biography of the African nationalist who led Tanganyika to independence, united tha...
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Son of the Nile
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Son of the Nile Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780893880484 Nonfiction Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation
His Day is Marching on: Memoirs of W. E. B. Du Bois
His Day is Marching on: Memoirs of W. E. B. Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780893881566 Nonfiction Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation
Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World,
Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World, Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671324643 Nonfiction Julian Messner Julian Messner
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671325626 Nonfiction Julian Messner Julian Messner
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation adrienne maree brown 9781849354189 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as i...
Camp Not Allowed
Camp Not Allowed K J Williams 9780998930282 Fiction Doodle and Peck Publishing Doodle and Peck Publishing Bored with their usual summer games, Kat and Tanya want to play with the neighborhood boys. Th...
Tabona
Tabona LaJuana A. Beadles 9781540832337 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Savannah, Georgia is known for many things from great food, history and hospitality but rarely is Savannah known fo...
Nicki Minaj: The Woman Who Stole The World
Nicki Minaj: The Woman Who Stole The World Lynette Holloway 9781937269302 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group With never before seen photos and interviews that bring you deep into the he...
Up Pops the Devil
Up Pops the Devil Angela Benson 9780061468506 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Two hard years in prison have changed Wilford ""Preacher"" Winters for the better. He did his time, now ...
The Night Before Thirty: A Novel (Strivers Row)
The Night Before Thirty: A Novel (Strivers Row) Tajuana “TJ” Butler 9781400060207 Fiction Villard Villard New, from the number one bestselling author of Hand-me-down Heartache and Sorority Sisters, a ...
Fetish
Fetish Victor Headley 9781874509202 Fiction Xpress Publishing Xpress Publishing A tense psychological thriller that explores the relationship between Jamie, a home boy from New York, and Tanya, a sass...
The People’s House: The Power and Presence of African Americans in the White House
The People’s House: The Power and Presence of African Americans in the White House Michelle D. Commander and Kathleen M. Kendrick 9780143139072 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House A new a...
Let It Shine!: A Celebration of You
Let It Shine!: A Celebration of You Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593805756 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Box: Henry Brown Mails H...
Psychopomp & Circumstance
Psychopomp & Circumstance Eden Royce 9781250330963 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award finalist author Eden Royce pens a Southern Gothic historical fantasy story of...
The AI Incident
The AI Incident J.E. Thomas 9781646145089 Fiction Levine Querido Levine Querido The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado’s unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school. Malcolm Montgo...
Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus
Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus Molefi Kete Asante 9781942774464 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Visibly Invisible: The Black ...
Blk Mkt Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories
Blk Mkt Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart 9780762484034 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group This one-of-a-kind treas...
This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood Catherine Joy White 9780593475164 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Winner of the 2025 Zora Award for Nonfiction “Beautifu...
Sydney’s Big Speech
Sydney’s Big Speech Malcolm Newsome 9780063141414 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A perfect picture book about perseverance, overcoming challenges, and working hard to achieve your goals! Sydne...
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith 9781978838994 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black ...
Acknowledging Radical Histories
Acknowledging Radical Histories Gerald Horne 9780717809424 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler ...
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom Victor Lavalle 9781250817556 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers The Ballad of Black Tom—the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley J...
The Women Could Fly
The Women Could Fly Megan Giddings 9780063116993 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acc...
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 2: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 2: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2 Gabrielle David 9781940939995 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Trailblazers by Gabrielle David is...
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780367482190 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969...
Queens of the Resistance Maxine Waters
Queens of the Resistance Maxine Waters Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman 9780593189870 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the ...
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The Confessions of Frannie Langton Sara Collins 9780062851895 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “This book was an interesting read. It has it all – romance, mystery, slavery, experimentation, feminism, and...
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories Alexia Arthurs 9781524799205 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House “In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once: some...
Changeling
Changeling Victor Lavalle 9780812985870 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “Mesmerizing … a dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness.” — Marlon James...
A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country
A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country Jabari Asim 9780316436427 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Jabari As...
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Vashti Harrison 9780316475112 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This beautifully illustrated book introduces reader of al...
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift Carol Mackey 9781478917526 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Photography by B. Jeffrey Grant-Clark This full-color p...
Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present
Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present Gil Robertson 9781933491219 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The highly anticipated fourth installment of the Book of Black Heroes ...
When the Sun Goes Down
When the Sun Goes Down Gwynne Forster 9780758247001 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “When the sun goes down on my life, you’ll all come apart like ripped balloons.”When stingy self-made mil...
Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide Joy-Ann Reid 9780062305268 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Barack Obama’s speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the ...
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact On Modern-Day Brooklyn
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact On Modern-Day Brooklyn Wayne Dawkins 9781617032585 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi In 1966, a year after the Voting Right...
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter Pearl Cleage 9781451664690 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage ...
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Diane D. Turner 9780883782262 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in stan...
Great Speeches by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions)
Great Speeches by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions) James Daley 9780486461410 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications From civil rights to the right to vote, women have spoken up and spo...
I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft
I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft LaShonda Katrice Barnett 9781568583310 Nonfiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press Barnett, a professor of African studies at Sarah Law...
Great Speeches By African Americans: Frederick Douglass
Great Speeches By African Americans: Frederick Douglass James Daley 9780486447612 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centurie...
Let The Lion Eat Straw
Let The Lion Eat Straw Ellease Southerland 9780060724214 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Hailed upon publication by writers and critics alike, including Shirley Hazzard and Charles Johnson, Let the Lion...
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780152010058 Nonfiction Gulliver Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked...
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Beverly Guy-Sheftall 9781565842564 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press The first major anthology to trace the development, from the ...
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times John Henrik Clarke 9780865432017 Nonfiction Africa Research and Publications Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The full impact of Malcolm X, his personality and h...