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

John Harris

Tomlin

In 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Replacing Hall of Famer Bill Cowher---and two years removed from the team's Super Bowl XL victory---…

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…

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…

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

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…

Grace Elizabeth Hale

In the Pines

In this powerful book, an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local…

Felicia Leatherwood

Root Therapy

Embrace and learn to love your natural hair with this eye-opening guide from "hair whisperer" to the stars, Felicia Leatherwood.As a child there was nothing Felicia Leatherwood wanted more than …

Colin Kaepernick

The Perilous Fight

A memoir by NFL star turned social activist Colin Kaepernick.

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…

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,…

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 comes a fresh, nuanced portrait of legendary civil rights activist, Rev. Jesse Jackson."A joyful, rich, must-read biography of a politician whose flaws and gifts were in const…

Judith Giesberg

Last Seen

"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital…

Wilbert L Cooper

The Black Shield

Both an epic history and an intimate family story, a startling account of the lives of Black cops in one Midwestern city.In the wake of the George Floyd protests, a Black police organization in Cleveland …

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 …

Lee Hawkins

I Am Nobody's Slave

"Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This work is vitally important and essential to understa…

Carver Clark Gayton

Odyssey of a Seattle Native Son

The autobiography of a local and national leader in education and civil rightsCarver Clark Gayton's story bears witness to Seattle's experience of race and the importance of family, teachers, teamwork, an…