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Singers & Players

Staggering Heights

Re-Release des dritten Albumklassikers der Singers & Players, einem losen Kollektiv um Prince Far I und Bim Sherman. »Staggering Heights« gilt als Höhepunkt ihres Katalogs und als UK-Dub-Meisterwerk, an d…

Pioneers Of African-American Cinema (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Explore the landmarks of early African-American film with this extensive collection of features and shorts. One of the most fascinating chapters of film history, the so-called ‘race films’ of 1920s, 30s a…

Robert Goodwin

Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South

"An adventure story more thrilling than Defoe or Melville could have imagined." ---The Philadelphia InquirerThe true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer---an African slave nam…

Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) (geb. 1934)

Autobiography

A History of American Gay Autobiography

Telling one's own story has always been central to American gay culture. Yet until now there has been no extensive history of gay American autobiography. This volume provides the first comprehensive study…

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Backtalker

New York Times BestsellerOne of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness offers the intimate st…

John Edgar Wideman

Slaveroad

"Master of language" (The New York Times ) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," offering "a fresh perspective of slav…

Patrice Nganang

Scale Boy

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa-complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy. Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days , Mount Ple…

Catherine Conybeare

Augustine the African

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God , helped s…

Patrice Nganang

Scale Boy

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa-complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy. Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days , Mount Ple…

Ray E Boomhower

Wallace Terry

Award-winning biographer Ray Boomhower tells the story of a journalist who spent his life smashing barriers, from his childhood in Indiana and his Ivy League education at Brown to his reporting on the Civ…

Marcia Chatelain

How Bright the Path Grows

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington. "…

Paula Akpan

When We Ruled

Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent in this immersive and pioneering history.Njinga Mbande. Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Makobo Modjadji VI. Ranavalona the First.The…

Artress Bethany White

A Black Doe in the Anthropocene

A Black Doe in the Anthropocene confronts brutal truths unearthed by the present-day descendant of an enslaved American family-author Artress Bethany White. Following her ancestors' enslavement in 1700s V…

Arun Kundnani

I Rise in Fire

A rigorous account of the pivotal but little-studied civil rights leader Jamil Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, stitches together new and profound connections. I Rise in Fire is a gripping, necessary addition t…

Sasha Bonét

The Waterbearers

• One of NPR's "Nonfiction Books We Love from 2025" • One of Kirkus 's "Best Nonfiction Books of 2025" • A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of B…

Nicole R Fleetwood

Between the River and the Railroad Tracks

Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole R. Fleetwood's multigenerational family portrait braids the intimate life of a neighborhood with the historic arc that shaped it to offer an untol…

Opal Lee

A Committee of One

A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A PurposeFULL Life is an inspirational memoir/self-help book from the Grandmother of Juneteenth that will be a testament to the transformative power of resilience,…