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A promised land2020
Summary: Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the... more »- place hold (0)
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Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot2020
Summary: Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues author Mikki Kendall, but... more »- place hold (0)
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Stakes is high : life after the American dream2020
Summary: "We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe... more »- place hold (0)
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A peculiar indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America2020
Summary: In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer,... more »- place hold (0)
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Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own2020
Summary: We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a... more »- place hold (0)
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Our time is now : power, purpose, and the fight for a fair America2020
Summary: Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity -- who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics,... more »- place hold (0)
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Say her name2020
Summary: Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter.... more »- place hold (0)
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Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home2019
Summary: Philadelphia, 1825. Five young, free black boys are lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay. They are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their... more »- place hold (0)
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Magical negro : poems2019
Summary: An archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs, these American poems are both elegy... more »- place hold (0)
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How we fight for our lives : a memoir2019
Summary: Haunted and haunting, Jones' memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own... more »- place hold (0)
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Amazing grace2019
Summary: A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album "Amazing Grace" at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.- place hold (0)
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Creating the black utopia of Buxton, Iowa2019
Summary: Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived worked and attended school together. It was a thriving,... more »- place hold (0)
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Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow2019
Summary: A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of... more »- place hold (0)
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We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide2018
Summary: This young adult adaptation brings Carol Anderson's ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response... more »- place hold (0)
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The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America2018
Summary: Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation, that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of... more »- place hold (0)
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Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom2018
Summary: The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBecoming2018
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped... more »- place hold (0)
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Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"2018
Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America... more »- place hold (0)
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Defining moments in Black history : reading between the lies2017
Summary: Dick Gregory has been a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he kept it real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard... more »- place hold (0)
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Unseen : unpublished Black history from the New York Times Photo Archives2017
Summary: In February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs -- and explored the history behind them -- and chronicled them in the popular blog... more »- place hold (0)
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The March against Fear : the last great walk of the civil rights movement and the emergence of Black power2017
Summary: Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple... more »- place hold (0)
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