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Series: This Promise of Change One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Paperback Jo Ann Allen Boyce 9781547604487 $17.50 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 10 - 12 Aug 19, 2025

Recipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book HonorWinner of the 2019Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for NonfictionA NYPL Top Ten of 2019AKirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearIn 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one ano... + Read More
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Series: Three-Fifths a Man A Graphic History of the African American Experience Paperback Sid Jacobson 9780809093694 $22.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 31, 2024

The essential, vividly illustrated graphic novel primer on African American history, from the Middle Passage to Black Lives MatterIn Three-Fifths a Man, the award-winning and bestselling team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón highlights the key events in African American history, taking us from the sixteenth-century Atlantic slave trade to the election of Barack Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement. Through richly drawn four-color illustrations and concise, accessible chapters, Jacobson and Colón convey a history of hardship and hope—a painf... + Read More
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Series: Three-Fifths a Man A Graphic History of the African American Experience Hardcover Sid Jacobson 9780809093687 $45.50 HISTORY Dec 31, 2024

InThree-Fifths a Man, the award-winning and bestselling team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie ColÃ³n highlights the key events in African American history, taking us from the sixteenth-century Atlantic slave trade to the election of Barack Obama and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Through richly drawn four-color illustrations and concise, accessible chapters, Jacobson and ColÃ³n convey a history of hardship and hope--a painful and necessary process, full of victories and setbacks, from theAmistad mutiny and the Three-Fifths Compromise toBrown v. Board... + Read More
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Series: Legacy of Orisha Children of Blood and Bone Paperback Tomi Adeyemi 9781250294623 $19.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Interest age, years from 14 - 18 Jan 01, 2023

InstantNew York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018NPR's Book Concierge 2018 Great Reads ListBuzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Top 25 Best Young Adults Books of 20182018KirkusPrize FinalistYALSA William C. Morris YA Debut Award FinalistPaste Magazine’s 30 Best YA Novels of 2018Newsweek’s 61 Best Books from 2018Boston Globe’s Best Children's Books of 2018Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2018School Library JournalBest Books of 2018With five starred reviews, To... + Read More
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Series: Performing Female Blackness Paperback Naila Keleta-Mae 9781771124805 $24.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 18, 2022

Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how Canada shapes these performances. Naila Keleta-Mae proposes that performance is part of the ontology of female blackness in the public and private spaces that constitute everyday life because people who are female and Black are constantly expected to perform fantasies—be ... + Read More
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Series: Civil Disobedience Entrepreneurial Lessons from an Extraordinary Life Hardcover Karen Civil 9781633539365 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 11, 2022

The miraculous journey of a boss lady: Karen Civil's rags to riches story is a powerfully inspirational one. In the beginning, Civil was a young black female entrepreneur with a dream; read about her entrepreneurial journey as she overcame adversity and achieved success in digital marketing: a field dominated by white men. An entrepreneur book for black women: From a working class first generation immigrant to a star in marketing working with celebrity clients like the Backstreet Boys and Lil' Wayne, Civil's journey is bound to inspire any you... + Read More
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Series: Black AF History The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Hardcover Michael Harriot 9780358439165 $40.00 HISTORY Aug 01, 2022

From beloved columnist Michael Harriot comes a comprehensive and bitingly hilarious appraisal of American history, in which the dominant narrative is directly confronted and corrected to showcase the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written with the perspective of white men at the forefront. It could even be said that the historical devaluation and elimination of the experiences of Bla... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On The Black British Power Movement Hardcover Chanté Joseph 9781913090654 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 28, 2022

When the Windrush generation arrived in Britain, the concept of 'Black Britishness' or 'Black British Culture' did not yet exist. Fast forward to the present day, where a distinct and influential Black British identity exists. This concise and informative book explores the crucial topics within Black British History and culture such as community activism, protests, Notting Hill Carnival, Black British Panthers, Women of the movement, Mangrove Nine and the Black British arts. Celebrating and chronicling the fusion of social, political and artist... + Read More
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Series: Black Powerful Black Voices on Origin and Selfhood Hardcover Natasha Marin 9781952119255 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 26, 2022

Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows-up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply-rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than two dozen Black voices. What does it sound like when you claim yourself? When do you feel most at home in yourself? What is your relationship to Africa, real or imagined? Black Powerful examines Black Americans' relationship with Africa and intersperses their reflections with Continental Africans' thoughts on Black Folx raised elsewhere in a monumental chorus o... + Read More
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Series: Life Writing Dead Woman Pickney A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica 2nd edition Paperback Yvonne Shorter Brown 9781771125475 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2022

Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The au... + Read More
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Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture Black Women Directors Paperback Christina N. Baker 9781978813335 $21.95 PERFORMING ARTS Interest age, years from 16 - 99 Mar 18, 2022

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Ap... + Read More
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Series: Bird Brother A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife Hardcover Rodney Stotts 9781642831740 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 03, 2022

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In Bird Brother, Rodney shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartmen... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On Afrobeats Hardcover Christian Adofo 9781913090517 $20.95 MUSIC Jan 07, 2022

Afrobeats is a fast growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent. A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats, the first book of its kind chronicles the social and cultural development of the music genre. Tracing its rich history from the African continent all the way to the musical centre of the Western world. This exciting new book takes a unique look at the music of the African diaspora and their children, delving into how Afrobeats and its sub-genres have provided new articulations of Bl... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On Plantain Hardcover Rui Da Silva 9781913090531 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 07, 2022

Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, Plantain holds profound value within the cultures and communities it is part of. A Quick Ting On: Plantain is a cultural insight into the versatile fruit. Through exploring the sentimental meaning plantain has within Black households and cultures alike, this book reveals how food within the Black community is an intimate marker of identity and culture. This concise and insightful book traces the international history of Plantain as well as delving into the contemporary issues ... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On The Black Girl Afro Hardcover Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy 9781913090593 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 07, 2022

Black Women's hair is a topic that has been at the centre of contemporary conversation for some time. This informative book explores the rich cultural history of Black Women's Afros weaving in anecdotal tales from Black women along the way. Exploring the ways in which Black women's natural hair is often politicised and judged. A Quick Ting On: The Black Girl Afro chronicles the ways in which the styling of Black Women's hair has influenced popular culture and how Black Women's hair intersects with Black expression. Complete with intimate inte... + Read More
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Series: A Quick Ting On Theatre Sh*t Reimagining Black British Theatre Hardcover Tobi Kyeremateng 9781913090579 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 07, 2022

Storytelling and performance have been at the centre of Black traditions for as long as Black existence. From griots and underground raves, to protests and defiant speeches, Black performance translates across time, space and memory. In the UK, a growing genre of contemporary Black British theatre takes shape as a powerful hub of imagination and creativity, which inspires Tobi Kyeremateng to ask: What is theatre in the context of Black expression? Combining elements of history, personal anecdotes and interviews, alongside layers of poetry and p... + Read More
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Series: I Am Because We Are An African Mother’s Fight for the Soul of a Nation Paperback Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr 9781487009632 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 04, 2022

In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria. Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A woman in a man’s world, she was elected and became a cabinet minister, but she had to deal with political manoeuvrings, death threats, and an assassination a... + Read More
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Series: Afro-Atlantic Histories Hardcover Adriano Pedrosa 9781636810027 $83.00 ART Dec 07, 2021

A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuriesAfro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories—their experiences, creations, worshipin... + Read More
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Series: Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style Hardcover Jason Jules 9781909526822 $64.95 DESIGN Dec 07, 2021

How Black culture reinvented and subverted the Ivy LookFrom the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period in American history when Black men across the country adopted the clothing of a privileged elite and made it their own. It shows how a generation of men took the classic Ivy Look and made it cool, edgy and unpredictable in ways that continue to influence today's modern menswear.Here you will see some famous, infamous and not so famous figur... + Read More
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Series: Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga Paperback Gail Parker 9781787757530 $37.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Nov 18, 2021

Building on the foundations of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma by Gail Parker, this workbook offers a range of self-care practices that strengthen the psychological immune system, increase resilience, and support post-traumatic growth. Ethnic and race-based traumatic stress is a worldwide phenomenon. Regardless of race and ethnicity we are all impacted by its damaging effects, from those who are wounded to those who do the wounding. We are witnessing health care disparities based on race and ethnicity that are causi... + Read More
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Series: Unsettling the Great White North Black Canadian History Paperback Michele A. Johnson 9781487529178 $34.95 HISTORY Nov 15, 2021

Unsettling the Great White North offers a chronological, regional, and thematic compilation of some of the latest and best scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history.Many Canadians tend to imagine themselves as part of the "Great White North," typified by images of snow and wilderness, tropes which reinforce ideologies based on Canadian innocence, "freedom," and a nation founded on British and French European-ness. The presence of enslaved, freed, and migratory persons of African descent in Canada has always presented a potential source... + Read More
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Series: To Address You as My Friend African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln Hardcover Jonathan W. White 9781469665078 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 26, 2021

Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their letters express the dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both recently enslaved and free people in the throes of dramatic change. For many, writing Lincoln was ... + Read More
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Series: Laurier Poetry DisPlace The Poetry of Nduka Otiono Paperback Nduka Otiono 9781771125383 $19.99 POETRY Oct 19, 2021

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics. The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley’s introduction contextualizes Otiono’s work w... + Read More