African American & Black

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116805Author Victor H GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman and person of color-a work of immense historical importance that both captures and transcends its times, newly...

Sarah and Angelina Grimke-the Grimke sisters-are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most...

In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt, shares his experiences as a Black man in America with truth, humour, and poignancy.Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the...

This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. Equiano's greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The...

Microsoft's associate general counsel shares this story that is "as nuanced as it is hopeful" (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology...

*Well-Read Black Girl - Book Club Pick*As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and...

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association-the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position-comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and most...

Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478333Author Therese Taylor-StinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959030126Author Athena DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684117277Author Ph D Arthur Talmage AbernethyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982173760Author Laura CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm...

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary...

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's...

Genocide-the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.TIME's 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019Book Riot's 50 of the Best Books to Read This FallAs seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541773929Author Jared A BrockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm *...

The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a "diary of an isolated soul" (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O...

Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an...

Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593496268Author R. Eric ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176563Author Lewis-GiggettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best...

In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250274199Author Charles PersonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination "A masterful biography. . . . Ward's struggles to find freedom, equality, peace, and belonging are still shared by...

Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in...

Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable. Born in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062987662Author Kenya HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define "home" and "belonging" - from her birth in Yaounde, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt's white French husband, to experiencing...

An honest and courageous examination of what it means to navigate the in-between Cole has heard it all before-token, bougie, oreo, Blackish-the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356754577Author K BayzFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint WritatPublisher WritatWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739004408Author Sheila WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Yorkland PublishingPublisher Yorkland PublishingWeight(grams) 581g