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Parable of the Sower

Book one of the Earthseed series. When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California...

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The 1619 Project: A New O...

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July...

$25.00

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All about Love: New Visions

The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what...

$16.99

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How to Go Mad without Los...

How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly. So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation...

$29.95

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Parable of the Talents

Book two of the Earthseed series. This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in...

$19.99

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Homemade Love [Board Book]

Her Mama calls her Girlpie-a sweet treat, homemade with love. And when Girlpie makes a mistake, the love of her mother and...

$7.99

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Thick: And Other Essays

This “transgressive, provocative, and brilliant” (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom’s position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on...

$16.99

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Your Name Is a Song

Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants...

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Jayden's Impossible Garden

Nine-year-old Jayden loves the outdoors, but his mother is nervous about him playing in their neighborhood. With the help of his neighbor...

$18.99

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of...

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My Sister, the Serial Killer

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic....

$14.95

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Imagination: A Manifesto ...

Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of...

$22.00

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Saturday

Today would be special. Today would be splendid. It was Saturday! But sometimes, the best plans don't work out exactly the way...

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Chicken in the Kitchen

What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door?...

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We Do This 'Til We Free Us

A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba. “Organizing is both...

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Dawn

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the...

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Xenogenesis

Lilith’s Brood

Zami: A New Spelling of M...

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography

Lorde, best known for her [poetry] and essays, leaves us with this ... autobiography of her early years as a writer, and...

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Change Sings: A Children'...

Change Sings: A Children's Anthem

"I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don't fear change coming, And so I sing along." In this...

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Left of Karl Marx: The Po...

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical...

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Adulthood Rites

Book two of the Xenogenesis trilogy. After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether...

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Xenogenesis

Lilith’s Brood

If I Can Cook/You Know Go...

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes ( Celebr...

A delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. This...

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Black Marxism, Revised an...

Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Revi...

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through...

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African Tales: A Barefoot...

African Tales: A Barefoot Collection

This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales...

$16.99

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Ten Black Dots

What can you do with ten black dots? One dot can make a sun, two dots can make the eyes of a...

$8.99

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Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

Little Man, Little Man: A...

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for...

$22.95

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The Cooking Gene

In this illuminating memoir, a renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both...

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The Source of Self-Regard...

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These...

$16.95

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My Mommy Medicine

My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from...

$17.99

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Everybody in the Red Bric...

Everybody in the Red Brick Building

Everybody in the red brick building was asleep. Until . . . WaaaAAH! Rraak! Wake up! Pitter patter STOMP! Pssheew! A chain...

$17.99

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Jump at the Sun: The True...

Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted...

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Pleasure Activism: The Po...

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible...

$20.00

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Black Feminism Reimagined...

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of...

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The Sun Is So Quiet

The quiet and noisy, wintery and sometimes sunny poems in "The Sun is So Quiet" will always make you smile. Nikki Giovanni...

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Heavy: An American Memoir

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies,...

$16.00

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America, Goddam: Violence...

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the...

$24.95

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Binti

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University,...

$9.99

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Among Flowers: A Walk in ...

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular Himalayan land, where she and...

$17.00

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Zora and Me: The Cursed G...

Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve...

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A Death in Harlem

In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance....

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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about...

$14.00

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Whose Toes Are Those?

Who do you suppose has such fine toes? So brown and sweet. Who could have such darling feet? Snuggle with a child...

$7.99

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Tar Baby

Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect...

$15.00

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Ghost Boys

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who...

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High on the Hog: A Culina...

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High...

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Thank You, Omu!

Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses toward the scrumptious...

$18.99

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The Future of Black: Afro...

The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry

This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, A. Van Jordan, Glenis...

$20.95

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