Overview :"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."--The At... Read More
Overview :A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience--told through a cast of characters whose lives illumi... Read More
Overview :In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistanc... Read More
Overview :Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved pe... Read More
Overview :A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X "The radical King was a democratic socialist who si... Read More
Overview :"By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black h... Read More
Overview :African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the h... Read More
Overview :A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginn... Read More
Overview :The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise--a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black histo... Read More
Overview :A "tour de force" (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americ... Read More
Overview :The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent ... Read More
Overview :A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the cit... Read More
Overview :The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans ins... Read More
Overview :This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the... Read More
Overview :The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom... Read More
Overview :* Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post No... Read More
Overview :The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with a CD of Malcolm X delivering two of them. Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure f... Read More