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Series: Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century Hardcover Dhanveer Singh Brar 9781912685790 $39.95 MUSIC Apr 27, 2021

How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban—ecologies that can never simply be reduced to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black electronic dance music as the cutting-edge aesthetic project of the diaspora, which due to the music’s class character makes it possible to reorgan... + Read More
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Series: Dear Black Girl Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power Paperback Tamara Winfrey Harris 9781523092291 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 09, 2021

“Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women’s voices…is a must-read, not only for Black girls, but for everyone who cares about Black girls, and for Black women whose inner-Black girl could use some healing.” - Tarana Burke, Founder of the ’Me Too’ Movement“Dear Dope Black Girl, You don’t know me, but I know you. I know you because I am you! We are magic, light, and stars in the universe.” So begins a... + Read More
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Series: Grieving While Black An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow Paperback Breeshia Wade 9781623175511 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

An exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver.Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what’s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear, what we love, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life, she conne... + Read More
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Series: Hood Feminism Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Paperback Mikki Kendall 9780525560562 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2021

A New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism“My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist (as I do) will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect.”—Elizabeth GilbertToday’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, acce... + Read More
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Series: Black Film British Cinema II Paperback Clive Nwonka 9781912685639 $40.00 PERFORMING ARTS Mar 02, 2021

The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period.Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice. This second iteration of Black Film British Cinema, marking over 30 years since the ground-breaking ICA Documents 7 publication in 1988, continues this investigation by offering a crucial contemporary consideration of the textual, institutional, cultural an... + Read More
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Series: The Black Church This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Hardcover Henry Louis Gates Jr. 9781984880338 $40.00 HISTORY Feb 16, 2021

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community’s abiding rock and its fortress.For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was his family and his community’s true center of gravity. Within those walls, voices were lifted up in song to call forth the best in each other, and to comfort each other when times were at their worst.... + Read More
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Series: It's Not All Downhill From Here A Novel Paperback Terry McMillan 9781984823755 $23.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life in this New York Times bestseller. “McMillan brings her signature wit and wisdom to It’s Not All Downhill From Here.”—O: The Oprah MagazineLoretha Curry’s life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband who’s still got moves that surprise. True, she’s carrying a fe... + Read More
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Series: Elegy for Mary Turner An Illustrated Account of a Lynching Paperback Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 9781788739047 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artworkIn 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 Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens bake... + Read More
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Series: Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Hardcover Ibram X. Kendi 9780593134047 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A “choral history” of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 90 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain.2019 marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first captive Africans in Virginia—and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and Keisha N. Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh an... + Read More
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Series: The Black Panther Party A Graphic Novel History Paperback David F. Walker 9781984857705 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 19, 2021

A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the impact and significance of the Panthers, from their social, educational, and healthcare programs that were designed to uplift the Black community to their battle against police brutality through citizen patrols and frequent cl... + Read More
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Series: Black Futures Hardcover Kimberly Drew 9780399181139 $54.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

An archive of collective memory and exuberant testimony.A luminous map to navigate an opaque and disorienting present. An infinite geography of possible futures.What does it mean to be black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful piec... + Read More
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Series: Africa State of Mind Contemporary Photography of a Continent Hardcover Ekow Eshun 9780500545164 $79.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

A vibrant photographic anthology that presents the work of a generation of image makers who are forging new visions of Africa.Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across the continent, exploring Africa as a psychological space as much as a geographical one. Both a summation of new photographic practice from the last decade and a compelling survey of the ways in which contemporary African photographers are engaging with ideas of “Africanness,” Africa State of Mind is a timely collection o... + Read More
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Series: We Cast a Shadow A Novel Paperback Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780525509073 $23.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A “razor-sharp debut from an urgent new voice of fiction,” (NPR) about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white.“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s Clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their noses narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it.In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, mo... + Read More
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Series: The Dark Star Trilogy Black Leopard, Red Wolf Paperback Marlon James 9780385690348 $24.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven KillingsIn the first novel in Marlon James’ Dark Star trilogy, African myth, fantasy and history come together in the story of a band of mercenaries hired to find a missing child.Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say. Engaged by a mysterious slave trader to track down a boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself par... + Read More
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Series: Brown Sugar Babe Hardcover Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781635921380 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Feb 04, 2020

Brown is beautiful. Brown is powerful! “This is the book I want to give to my future daughter.” —Black Nerd ProblemsPerfect for fans of Hair Love and Antiracist Baby, this lyrically written, stunningly illustrated picture book is a love letter to the beauty of brown skin and a message of love, acceptance, and pride for all brown sugar babes. A classic in the making!When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! “Brown is precious. Brown is feet marching for human... + Read More
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Series: The Skin We're In A Year of Black Resistance and Power Hardcover Desmond Cole 9780385686341 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 28, 2020

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a bracing, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada’s most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We’re In will spark a national conversation, influence policy and inspire activists.In May 2015, the cover story of Toronto Life magazine shook Canada’s largest city to its core. Desmond Cole’s “The Skin I’m In” exposed the racist practices of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times Cole had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Paperback Toni Morrison 9780525562795 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 14, 2020

The most celebrated and revered writer of our time gives us a new nonfiction collection: a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on race, society, justice, culture, and art, spanning four decades.The Source of Self-Regard brims with the elegance, literary prowess, and moral gravitas that are Toni Morrison’s inimitable hallmarks. Its forty-four essays (all previously published) are divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11, the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther K... + Read More
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Series: What We All Long For / Love Enough Two Toronto Novels Combined volume Paperback Dionne Brand 9780735279872 $22.95 FICTION Jan 07, 2020

Together in a single volume, two beloved novels by one of our most celebrated and important writers.Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who’ve never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family’s hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends-each of whom is grappling with their own familial complexities and heartache.By turns thrilling and heartbreaking, Tuyen’s lost brother—who has since become a criminal i... + Read More
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Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy Finding Langston Paperback Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823445820 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jan 07, 2020

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionWhen eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything--Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved.In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn... + Read More
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Series: Such a Fun Age Hardcover Kiley Reid 9780525541905 $35.00 FICTION Dec 31, 2019

A Best Book of the Year:The Washington Post | NPR | Chicago Tribune | Slate | Parade | Elle | Real Simple | InStyle | Good Housekeeping | Vox | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | BookPageLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA REESE’S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK“The most provocative page-turner of the year.” —Entertainment Weekly “I urge you to read Such a Fun Age.”—NPRA striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race... + Read More
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Series: Dispatch Poems Paperback Cameron Awkward-Rich 9780892555031 $21.95 POETRY Dec 10, 2019

Winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, Cameron Awkward-Rich’s intimate second book of poems attempts to reckon with and withstand American violence.Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present day. These poems ask: What kind of revisions will make this a world/a story that is concerned with my people’s flourishing? How ought I pay attention, how to re... + Read More
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Series: The Measure of Our Lives A Gathering of Wisdom Hardcover Toni Morrison 9780735280236 $25.00 SELF-HELP Dec 03, 2019

At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith.Through bricolage—a construction or creation from a diverse range of available things—this brief book aims to limn the totality of Toni Morrison’s literary vision and achievement. It dramatizes the life of her powerful mind by juxtaposing quotations, one to a page, drawn from her entire body of work, both fiction and non-fiction—from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child,... + Read More
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Series: White Negroes When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation Hardcover Lauren Michele Jackson 9780807011805 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 12, 2019

Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality.American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit.Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson ... + Read More
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Series: I Look Up To...Oprah Winfrey Board book Anna Membrino 9781984852120 $10.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 0 - 3 Nov 05, 2019

If you can see it, you can be it! Introduce your child to powerful feminist role models with this series of inspirational board books.It’s never too early to introduce your child to the people you admire! This board book distills powerhouse guru Oprah Winfrey’s excellent qualities into an eminently shareable read-aloud text with graphic, eye-catching illustrations.Each spread highlights an important trait, and is enhanced by a quote from Oprah herself. Kids will grow up hearing the words of this powerful, determined woman and will learn what YO... + Read More
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Series: Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved Undefined Toni Morrison 9780593082164 $60.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2019

A box set of Toni Morrison’s principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner).Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free.In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays... + Read More
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Series: Dragons in a Bag The Dragon Thief Hardcover Zetta Elliott 9781524770495 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 22, 2019

Stealing a baby dragon was easy! Hiding it is a little more complicated, in this sequel to reviewer favorite Dragons in a Bag.Jaxon had just one job—to return three baby dragons to the realm of magic. But when he got there, only two dragons were left in the bag. His best friend’s sister, Kavita, is a dragon thief!Kavita only wanted what was best for the baby dragon. But now every time she feeds it, the dragon grows and grows! How can she possibly keep it secret? Even worse, stealing it has upset the balance between the worlds. The gates to the ... + Read More
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Series: War Girls Hardcover Tochi Onyebuchi 9780451481672 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 15, 2019

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky.In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect them from the harsh, radiation-heavy climate. Across the nation, as the years-long civil war wages on, survival bec... + Read More
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Series: Happy Hair Happy Hair Hardcover Mechal Renee Roe 9781984895547 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 15, 2019

Mechal Renee Roe, illustrator of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s Super Heroes Are Everywhere, creates a joyful, positive, read-together book celebrating girls with natural black hair that will have kids everywhere chanting: “I love being me!”Full ’fro, cute bow! I love being me! Smart girl, cool curls! I love being me! Girls will love seeing strong, happy reflections of themselves in this vibrant, rhythmic book full of beautiful Black hairstyles. From a cute crop to pom-pom puffs, adorable illustrations of girls with gorgeous braids, blowo... + Read More
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Series: Jackpot Hardcover Nic Stone 9781984829627 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Oct 15, 2019

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin—which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of The Hate U Give, called “a must read”—comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life.Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas ’n’ Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she—wi... + Read More
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Series: Who Put This Song On? Hardcover Morgan Parker 9780525707516 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 24, 2019

“Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and The Poet X, comes poet Morgan Parker’s pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored.Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she’s... + Read More
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Series: A Fortune for Your Disaster Paperback Hanif Abdurraqib 9781947793439 $21.95 POETRY Sep 24, 2019

“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” —Booklist, Starred ReviewIn his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It’s a book about a mo... + Read More
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Series: The Water Dancer A Novel Hardcover Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780399590597 $37.00 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK A boldly imagined work of magic and adventure from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me.Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage—and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child—but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn’t understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram’s private reb... + Read More
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Series: The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Hardcover Junauda Petrus 9780525555483 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 17, 2019

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she’s going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor’s daughter. Audre’s grandmother Queenie (a former dancer who drives a white convertible Cadillac and who h... + Read More
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Series: Red at the Bone A Novel Hardcover Jacqueline Woodson 9780525535270 $35.00 FICTION Sep 17, 2019

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the em... + Read More
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Series: Ordinary People Change the World I am Brave A Little Book about Martin Luther King, Jr. Board book Brad Meltzer 9781984814241 $10.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Sep 10, 2019

The littlest readers can learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great—the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. In this new board book format, the very youngest readers can learn about one of America’s icons in the series’s signature lively, conversational way. The short text focuses on drawing inspiration from these iconic heroes, an... + Read More
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Series: My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich Hardcover Ibi Zoboi 9780399187353 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 27, 2019

National Book Award-finalist Ibi Zoboi makes her middle-grade debut with an unforgettable character: Ebony-Grace Norfleet, the sci-fi-obsessed granddaughter of one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA. Set in Harlem in the early days of hip-hop, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich is a moving and hilarious story of girl finding a place and a voice in a world that’s changing at warp speed.In the summer of 1984, 12-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet makes the trip from Huntsville, Alabama, to Harlem, where she’ll spend a few weeks with her fath... + Read More
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Series: Tight Paperback Torrey Maldonado 9781524740573 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 27, 2019

* “Maldonado excels at depicting realistic and authentic interactions between middle school boys.”—School Library Journal (starred review)A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018!Tight: Lately Bryan’s been feeling it in all kinds of ways. He knows what’s tight for him in a good way—reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama’s hard to escape where he’s from, and that gets him wound up tight.And now Bryan’s new friend Mike is challenging him to have fun in ways that are crazy risky. At first, it’s a rush f... + Read More
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Series: How to Be an Antiracist Hardcover Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288 $36.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 13, 2019

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America—but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active r... + Read More
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Series: Dragons in a Bag Dragons in a Bag Paperback Zetta Elliott 9781524770488 $9.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Aug 13, 2019

The dragon’s out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author—with two starred reviews!When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she’s not his grandmother—but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they’ll be safe. There are two rules when it comes to the dragons: don’t let them out of the bag and don’t feed them anything sweet. Before he knows it, Jax and his friends Vikram and Kavita have broken both rules! Will Jax ge... + Read More
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Series: Theory Paperback Dionne Brand 9780735274259 $17.00 FICTION Aug 06, 2019

A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. This compact tour de force affirms Dionne Brand’s place as one of Canada’s most dazzling and influential artists. By effortlessly telling this short, intense tale in the voice of an unnamed, ungendered (and brilliantly unreliable) narrator, Dionne Brand makes a bold statement not only about love and personhood, but about race and gender—and what can and cannot be articulated in prose when the forces that inhabit the space between words ar... + Read More
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Series: Sing a Song How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations Hardcover Kelly Starling Lyons 9780525516095 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Aug 06, 2019

“Lyons delivers the history of a song that has inspired generations of African-Americans to persist and resist in the face of racism and systemic oppression…. A heartfelt history of a historic anthem.”—Publishers WeeklySing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us.Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham Lincoln’... + Read More
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Series: The Nickel Boys Hardcover Colson Whitehead 9780385693967 $29.95 FICTION Jul 16, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Florida, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: he is “as good as anyone.” Abandoned by his parents, b... + Read More
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Series: Rocket Says... Rocket Says Look Up! Hardcover Nathan Bryon 9781984894427 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Jun 25, 2019

Meet Rocket--a plucky aspiring astronaut intent on getting her community to LOOK UP! from what they're doing and reach for the stars in this auspicious debut picture book. Honored as a Chicago Public Library 2019 Best of the Best Book!A comet will be visible tonight, and Rocket wants everyone to see it with her--even her big brother, Jamal, whose attention is usually trained on his phone or video games. Rocket's enthusiasm brings neighbors and family together to witness a once-in-a-lifetime sighting. Perfect for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and... + Read More
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Series: I Look Up To... Serena Williams Board book Anna Membrino 9780525644422 $10.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 0 - 3 Jun 11, 2019

If you can see it, you can be it! Introduce your child to powerful feminist role models with this series of inspirational board books.It's never too early to introduce your child to the people you admire! This board book distills tennis superstar Serena Williams's excellent qualities into an eminently shareable read-aloud text with graphic, eye-catching illustrations.Each spread highlights an important trait, and is enhanced by a quote from Serena herself. Kids will grow up hearing the words of this powerful, determined woman and will learn wha... + Read More
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Series: The Blue Clerk Ars Poetica in 59 Versos Paperback Dionne Brand 9780771001543 $21.00 POETRY Jun 11, 2019

Griffin Poetry Prize winner Dionne Brand's startlingly original work about the act of writing itself.On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages--the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained. In The Blue Clerk, award-winning poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages. In their dialogues--which take shape as a series of haunting prose poems--the p... + Read More
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Series: More Than Enough Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) Hardcover Elaine Welteroth 9780525561583 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 11, 2019

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK — BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHYNOW OPTIONED FOR DEVELOPMENT AS A TV SERIES BY PARAMOUNT TELEVISION STUDIOS AND ANONYMOUS CONTENT“The millennial Becoming . . . Inspiring and empowering.” —Entertainment Weekly “An essential read for women in the workplace today.” —Refinery29Part-manifesto, part-memoir, from the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue, an exploration of what it means to come into your own—on your... + Read More
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Series: Hair Love Hardcover Matthew A. Cherry 9780525553366 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 May 14, 2019

"I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this." - Jordan Peele, Actor & FilmmakerIt's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from Academy-Award winning director and former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. Cherry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Va... + Read More
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Series: It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) Hardcover Trevor Noah 9780525582168 $23.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 Apr 09, 2019

The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir. “A piercing reminder that every mad life--even yours--could end up a masterpiece." --JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling author We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them as people. Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on... + Read More
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Series: Between the Lines Paperback Nikki Grimes 9780525515159 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Mar 19, 2019

This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes’ Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the New York Times. To hone his skills and learn more about the power of words, he enrolls in Mr. Ward’s class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important to say, and in sharing their poetry, they learn that they all face challenges and have a s... + Read More
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Series: Negrophobia An Urban Parable Paperback Darius James 9781681373294 $19.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author.Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blo... + Read More
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Series: A More Beautiful and Terrible History The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History Paperback Jeanne Theoharis 9780807063484 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 12, 2019

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. And it i... + Read More
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Series: Magical Negro Paperback Morgan Parker 9781947793187 $21.95 POETRY Feb 05, 2019

Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collec... + Read More
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Series: Who Was? Who Is Michael Jordan? Paperback Kirsten Anderson 9780451532459 $7.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Feb 05, 2019

Grab your Js and hit the court with this Who Was? biography about NBA superstar Michael Jordan.Meet the man who changed the game forever. Michael Jordan has always been competitive--even as a young boy, he fought for attention. His need to be the best made him a star player on his college basketball team and helped him become an NBA legend, both for his skills and his endorsements. His Nike contract for Air Jordan basketball shoes set an unmatched precedent for professional athletes. Author Kirsten Anderson takes readers through each exciting m... + Read More
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Series: Reclaiming Our Space How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets Paperback Feminista Jones 9780807055373 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 29, 2019

A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagementIn Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. As Jones reveals, some of the best-loved devices of our shared social media language are a result of Black women’s innovatio... + Read More
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Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers Corregidora Paperback Gayl Jones 9780807061091 $22.00 FICTION Jan 29, 2019

The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery. Selected and first edited by Toni Morrison, it is “the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women,” (James Baldwin) and “a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and as murky as the Florida swamps.” (Maya Angelou). A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past,... + Read More
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Series: Redemption Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours Paperback Joseph Rosenbloom 9780807040652 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 15, 2019

An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in Memphis six days earlier to support striking garbage workers had turned into a riot, and King was returning to prove that he could lead a violence-free protest.King’s reputation as a credible, non-violent... + Read More
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Series: What Is Given from the Heart Hardcover Patricia C. McKissack 9780375836152 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Jan 08, 2019

CORETTA SCOTT KING – JOHN STEPTOE ILLUSTRATOR AWARD FOR NEW TALENT WINNERThis final, magnificent picture book from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack is a poignant and uplifting celebration of the joy of giving. "Misery loves company," Mama says to James Otis. It's been a rough couple of months for them, but Mama says as long as they have their health and strength, they're blessed. One Sunday before Valentine's Day, Reverend Dennis makes an announcement during the service-- the Temples have lo... + Read More
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Series: The Stars Beneath Our Feet Paperback David Barclay Moore 9781524701277 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Jan 08, 2019

"The right story at the right time. . . . It’s not just a narrative; it’s an experience. It’s the novel we’ve been waiting for." —The New York Times A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother’s death in this outstanding debut novel that celebrates community and creativity. ** WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING–JOHN STEPTOE AWARD FOR NEW TALENT! **MICHAEL B. JORDAN TO DIRECT MOVIE ADAPTATION!SIX STARRED REVIEWS! It’s Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren’t cel... + Read More
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Series: Little Golden Book My Little Golden Book About Martin Luther King Jr. Hardcover Bonnie Bader 9780525578703 $5.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Dec 24, 2018

Learn all about Martin Luther King Jr. Day with this Little Golden Book biography all about the civil rights leader! The perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers. This Little Golden Book captures the essence of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the littlest readers. They’ll learn how his childhood in segregated Atlanta—and in his father’s church—shaped the future civil rights leader. And they’ll gain a clear understanding of the way he became an eloquent, powerful voice for African Americans. Read all the Little Golden Book bio... + Read More
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Series: Becoming Hardcover Michelle Obama 9781524763138 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 13, 2018

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families p... + Read More