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Rachel Laryea

Black Capitalists

Examines "how Black visionaries--from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond--are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone"--Provided by publisher.

Nicole D Yadon

The Politics of Skin Tone

"A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African…

Kay Norton

Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music

Sallie Martin combined fame as a performer with a far-sighted business acumen that brought Black gospel music to a national audience and laid the foundation for the industry that followed. Kay Norton's bi…

John Harris

Tomlin

In 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Replacing Hall of Famer Bill Cowher---and two years removed from the team's Super Bowl XL victory---…

Larry Tye

The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

David Greenberg

John Lewis

New York Times Book ReviewTop 100 Books of 2024Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congres…

Felicia Leatherwood, Corynne L Corbett

Root Therapy

Embrace and learn to love your natural hair with this eye-opening guide from "hair whisperer" to the stars, Felicia Leatherwood.As a child there was nothing Felicia Leatherwood wanted more than …

Lerone Martin

Young King

From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at th…

Asale Angel-Ajani

Fugitive Archives

Asale Angel-Ajani's incisive, lyrical exploration of her family's history radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging.Angel-Ajani and her twin, the only Black children in a work…

Colin Kaepernick

The Perilous Fight

The defining and uncompromising memoir from Super Bowl quarterback and renowned Civil Right activist, Colin Kaepernick.On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, but th…

Abby Phillip

A Dream Deferred

From CNN's Abby Phillip comes a fresh, nuanced portrait of legendary civil rights activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson."A joyful, rich, must-read biography of a politician whose flaws and gifts were in const…

Robin Givhan

Make It Ours

"An illuminating . . . biography and cultural history" (The New York Times) of Virgil Abloh's iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry, which embodied a groundbreaking transformation of th…

Lee Hawkins

I Am Nobody's Slave

"Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This work is vitally important and essential to understa…

April Ryan

Notes on a Blacklash

The veteran White House correspondent follows up Black Women Will Save the World with a gripping, soul-baring, and deeply personal examination of online misogynoir---specific and relentless online bullyin…

Judith Giesberg

Last Seen

"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital…

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

Brian Rashad Fuller

Being Black in America's Schools

For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation of s…

Ijeoma Uchegbu

Chain Reaction

By one of the world's leading chemists, an entertaining and revealing tour of the chemical bonds that shape our everyday lives and provide the infrastructure for our chaotic world.We all have a relationsh…

J Vanessa Lyon

Blackness Thirteen Ways

The art historian, poet, and novelist close-reads images, moving and still, canonical and lesser known, that have shaped her evolving identity as an American "Mulatta" lesbian born at the end of…