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• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  Here are 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Each Other's Harvest

  Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

  Baszile, Natalie

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  In this anthology, Baszile explores the legacy of 'Black and brown farmers' from Emancipation to today via essays, poems, photographs, and interviews.

• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey

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  A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country.

• Somebody's Daughter

  a Memoir

  Ford, Ashley C.

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  One of the prominent voices of her generation, the author presents this coming-of-age recollection of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and a traumatic event, revealing the threads between who you…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

  a Novel

  Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne

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  To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family’s past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The African Lookbook

  a Visual History of 100 Years of African Women

  McKinley, Catherine E.

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  A curator and writer, drawing on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos, presents this unprecedented visual history of African women across centuries.

• A Promised Land

  Obama, Barack

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  A deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.

• The Dead Are Arising

  the Life of Malcolm X

  Payne, Les

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  A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• South to America

  a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

  Perry, Imani

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  This is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people.

• Just as I Am

  Tyson, Cicely

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  Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. Here, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Panther Party

  Walker, David

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  Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harlem Shuffle

  Whitehead, Colson

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  A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist.