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1.
A Century and Some Change
My Life Before the President Called My Name
By: Ann Nixon Cooper
with: Karen Grigsby Bates
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
President-elect Barack Obama reflected on the life of Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, singling her out of millions of voters, he said, because she was "born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were...
Other Formats: eBook
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Barack Like Me
The Chocolate-Covered Truth
By: David Alan Grier
with: Alan Eisenstock
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2009
FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw...
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Stop Being Niggardly
And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing
By: Karen Hunter
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: April 27, 2010
Other Formats: eBook
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Survival
How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters
By: Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (U.S. Army, ret)
with: Ron Martz
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: May 5, 2009
It seems as though the frequency of natural disasters occurring around the nation and the world is increasing. Every day, there are new stories about earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and forest fires ravaging some part of...
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Accountable
Making America as Good as Its Promise
By: Tavis Smiley
with: Stephanie Robinson
This edition: Paper Over Board, 320 pages
Publication date: February 17, 2009
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Covenant with Black America and The Covenant In Action...Tavis Smiley offers a powerful, prescriptive successor to his bestselling Covenant series that assesses the response to...
6.
Black Pain
It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
By: Terrie M. Williams
This edition: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them. Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was...
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Why Black Men Love White Women
Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
By: Rajen Persaud
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: October 9, 2007
THE IRREVERENT, EYE-OPENING, AND HILARIOUS BOOK THAT DARES TO ASK... Why do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordinary white women?Why do so many other black men desire and covet the company of white...
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Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
By: James W. Loewen
This edition: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publication date: October 3, 2006
No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's best-kept secrets as he unearths the...
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Inside the Cage
A Season at West 4th Street's Legendary Tournament
By: Wight Martindale Jr.
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2006
The most popular outdoor basketball court in New York City is half the regulation size, offers no seating, and has sidelines bounded by a chain-link fence. But the summer league on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village has...
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Turning the Wheel
Essays on Buddhism and Writing
By: Charles Johnson
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: May 6, 2003
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
