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Taking the arrow out of the heart : poems
by Alice Walker
The award-winning author of ""The Color Purple"" returns with a collection of nearly 70 works of poetic free verse, presented in both English and Spanish, that focus on issues of love, hope and gratitude in our troubled times.
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Light for the world to see
by Kwame Alexander
Presents a collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America.
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Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well
by Maya Angelou
A collection of thirty-six poems offers an eloquent celebration of life, love, memory, and self-discovery and elegizes the African-American past, loneliness, losses, and destruction.
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I know why the caged bird sings
by Maya Angelou
The critically acclaimed author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
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Selected poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
A collection of the author's favorite poetry from published books, private publications, and unpublished manuscripts.
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The black unicorn : Poems
by Audre Lorde
Shares the poet's work as she writes about such disparate topics as motherhood, feminism, wildness, healing, and the Dahomeyan Amazons.
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A raisin in the sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
An African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions, in the award-winning 1959 play about an embattled Chicago family.
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The Black history book
by Nemata Amelia Blyden
Bringing together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture, this important and thought-provoking book offers a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples.
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Black futures
by Kimberly Drew
A curated collection of essays, photography, memes, recipes, poems and dialogues explores what it means to be Black and alive in today’s world from the perspectives of academics, activists and other prominent cultural and social-media influencers.
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Black Power 50
by Sylviane A. Diouf
A fully illustrated companion to a major exhibit at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents a sweeping 50th-anniversary retrospective of Black Power in America and around the world.
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.
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When they call you a terrorist : a story of Black Lives Matter and the power to change the world
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most powerful movements in the world. This is her story. Necessary and timely, 'When They Call You a Terrorist' reminds us that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love: that love is the push to search for justice for those victimized by the powerful. With journal entries, photos and notes that show the formation of an activist from a very young age, this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience seeks to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
by Trevor Noah
The comedian traces his coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
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