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Lift every voice Let us lift our voices as we also lift our spirits with joy, tears and memories from our ancestors.
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia HyltonTracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums.
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What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee WilliamsRecalling his remarkable life of nearly eight decades, the film legend who has starred in 40 movies, seven Broadway plays and has made more than 40 TV shows and movies combined shows how he, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, became a true pop culture icon.
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Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words by Viola Ford FletcherViola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with poignant clarity - from the terror of her childhood as a seven-year-old fleeing the burning streets of Greenwood to her current role as a 109-year-old family matriarch seeking justice for the affected families.
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Hello Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny & Day Jobs by Dulce SloanThe up-and-coming comedy star and Daily Show correspondent reflects on her life in a collection of wildly entertaining and culturally resonant essays that chronicle her journey from an Atlanta childhood to standup comedy and acting.
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Dear Black Girls: How to be True to You by A'ja WilsonThe Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP explores what it means to be a Black woman in America today and how she overcame the feeling of being swept under the rug while growing up.
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Silent Judgement by Zaire CrownOrdered to protect TV news personality Amelia Chess, an unapologetic Black conservative who has been receiving death threats, Silence starts to see what lies beneath her villainous persona, but when the threats turn real, he is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy where he must fight his personal demons to survive.
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A Love Song for Ricki Wildeby Tia WilliamsLeaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop as the Harlem Renaissance swirls around her, in the new novel from the author of Seven Days in June.
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One Blood by Denene MillnerDiscovering she's adopted and about to become a mother herself, Rae knows there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers, in a novel spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women's equality in the early 2000s.
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The First Ladies by Marie BenedictInitially drawn together because of their shared belief in women's rights and the power of education, civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt fight together for justice and equality, holding each other's hands through tragedy and triumph.
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