African-American Autobiography – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 10

Kay Norton

Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music

"Sallie Martin combined fame as a performer with a far-sighted business acumen that brought Black gospel music to a national audience and laid the foundation for the industry that followed. Kay Norto…

Grace Elizabeth Hale

In the Pines

Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of…

Nicole D Yadon

The Politics of Skin Tone

"A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African…

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 1 tells the…

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 2 discusses…

Patrick Howell

Getting Deals Done

Getting Deals Done is a new-millennium memoir written with universal and urgent applications, focused at the intersection of Race on the generation X axis, Capitalism on the generation Y axis and the New …

Larry Tye

The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

Rachel Laryea

Black Capitalists

Examines "how Black visionaries--from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond--are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone"--Provided by publisher.

David Greenberg

John Lewis

New York Times Book ReviewTop 100 Books of 2024Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congres…

Timothy B Tyson, Mary D Williams

Mahalia Jackson, Moving on Up a Little Higher

If Americans remember Mahalia Jackson at all, they know her as the greatest gospel singer to ever live. New York Times best-selling author Timothy B. Tyson and acclaimed gospel singer Mary D. Williams, ho…

David Ritz

Respect

This "comprehensive and illuminating" biography of the Queen of Soul (USA Today) was hailed by Rolling Stone as "a remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life."  Areth…

John Conyers III

My Father's House

In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as…

Robin Givhan

Make It Ours

"An illuminating . . . biography and cultural history" (The New York Times) of Virgil Abloh's iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry, which embodied a groundbreaking transformation of th…

Charlamagne Tha God

Get Honest or Die Lying

From multi-hyphenate mogul and host of The Breakfast Club and Comedy Central's *Tha God's Honest Truth,*Charlamagne Tha God, real talk on the many ways in which we've screwed up our world, and what we nee…

Abby Phillip

A Dream Deferred

From CNN's Abby Phillip, a triumphant new look at Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns of the 1980s and how they changed Black political power"A joyful, rich, must-read biography of a politician wh…

Gayle F Wald

This Is Rhythm

"99-year-old Ella Jenkins was a pioneer in American children's music and an early practitioner of what became known as multiculturalism. Here Gayle Wald, with unparalleled access to Jenkins's papers,…

Beronda L Montgomery

When Trees Testify

This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees.The histories of trees …

Brian Rashad Fuller

Being Black in America's Schools

For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation of s…

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History