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Just as I am : a memoir
by Cicely Tyson
The Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life. 150,000 first printing.
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This is the fire : what I say to my friends about racism
by Don Lemon
"The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them"
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A promised land
by Barack Obama
A deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
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Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"
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The Marathon don't stop : the life and times of Nipsey Hussle
by Rob Kenner
The founding editor of Vibe presents an in-depth portrait of the hip-hop mogul, artist and activist to share insights into his motivational lyrics, visionary business savvy and tragic murder in a neighborhood he was trying to rebuild. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance
by Mia Bay
"What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobilityhas been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"
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My time will come : a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption
by Ian Manuel
"The wrenching, and inspiring, story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of America's greatest contemporary legal activist, Bryan Stevenson. Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing) cars with his friends. At age thirteen he shot a white woman in the jaw during a botched mugging. For that crime, and because of his earlier record as a juvenile delinquent, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole--essentially a death sentence. Forgotten by society, tortured by prison guards, held in solitary confinement for eighteen years, he was nonetheless able to accomplish a near-miraculous release from the unimaginable hell of the U.S. correctional system. Unable to afford legal help, through his own determination and strategic thinking, some serendipity, and the all-important help of complete strangers, including Bryan Stevenson and, perhaps most extraordinarily, the woman he shot, he was able eventually to gain his freedom. Full of unexpected twists and turns, the narrative is at times harrowing, disturbing, and painful, but, ultimately it is astoundingly evocative of the power of human will"
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The other Madisons : the lost history of a president's Black family
by Bettye Kearse
A Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and descendant of an enslaved cook describes the rich oral traditions that documented her shared ancestry with President James Madison and the human realities of rape and incest throughout the slave era. 30,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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My vanishing country : a memoir
by Bakari Sellers
The CNN analyst and record-setting South Carolina State Representative chronicles the past, present and likely future of the American South, discussing his father’s civil rights heroism and the ignored harsh realities of the black working class. 75,000 first printing.
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