2,334円 The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North,...

2,488円 On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, Up from Slavery. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had establish...

435円 A Single Source For History On Black History Subjects Including Affirmative Action, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, Jr., The Fifteenth and Thirteenth Amendment, The Underground Railroad and Brown versus the Board of Education and More!  

1,921円 Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America. Interviews reveal the never-before-heard story of the Black Panthers...

2,122円 Return to Glory will challenge everything you were ever taught about human historyBeginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs its readers on a magnificent tour of life ...

2,123円 A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on l...

1,867円 Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book als...

164円 According to the Foreword: "Friends of Arctic exploration and discovery, with whom I have come in contact, and many whom I know only by letter, have been greatly interested in the fact of a colored man being an effective member of a serious Arctic expedition, and going north, not once, but numero...

2,334円 In her previous books, the national bestsellers 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women’s Lives and 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women’s Lives, celebrated television personality, motivational speaker, and author Dr. Grace Cornish showed African-American women how to kick unhealthy habits, make...

1,555円 **"Honest, courageous... Williams has committed an act of love."ーAlice Walker "A classic."ーJack Kornfield There truly is an art to being here in this world, and like any art, it can be mastered.** In this elegant, practical book, Angel Kyodo Williams combines the universal wisdom of Buddhism wi...

7,296円 The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those involved with the coal industry was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia...

1,474円 People of different races have been falling in love for centuries, but it has only been in the last 30 years that interracial relationships have become acceptable in American societyーnot to mention by local police. This book addresses the problems facing interracial couples from a black perspect...