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The Color of Water
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James McBride (Read by)
Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of ...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Nellie Y McKay (Editor), Frances Smith Foster (Editor), Harriet A Jacobs
This biography was the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. Born in 1813, Harriet Jacobs was unaware of her status as a slave until the deaths of her mother and a benevolent mistress exposed her to a sexually predatory master, "Dr Flint", whilst she was in her teens. She escaped "Dr Flint" at the age of 22, ...
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Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
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Leon Dash
Based on a series that first appeared in the "Washington Post" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is the story of one woman, Rosa Lee, and her family living in the projects in Washington, DC. Leon Dash spent four years following the fortune of this family in an effort to understand--on a human level, ...
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For the Love of the Game: My Story
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Michael Jordan, Mike Vancil (Editor)
Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls looks back on his distinguished career.
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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
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Pagan Kennedy
n 1890 a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary named William Henry Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, where for more than twenty years he ran a mission staffed by black Americans. Returning to America periodically, he was billed as the "Black Livingstone" and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to ...
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The Isis (Yssis) Papers
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Frances Cress Welsing
A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
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Freak!: Inside the Twisted World of Michael Jackson
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Nick Bishop
From his weird marriage to Lisa Marie Presley to his paying a woman to be artificially inseminated with his children, it's all here - one man's desperate attempts to stay on top, even as he spirals out of control downward.
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Losing Ground: American Social Policy
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Charles Murray
Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often made things worse.
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Powernomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America
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Claud Anderson
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
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Malcolm X
Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s. These speeches document Malcolm's progression from Black nationalism to internationalism, and are key to both understanding his extraordinary life and illuminating his angry yet uplifting cause.
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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
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Harold Cruse
In his classic, and controversial, book from 1967, THE CRISIS OF THE NEGRO INTELLECTUAL, Harold Cruse connects to a larger tradition of writing about African-American empowerment from within that goes far back and includes writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Using language that was highly charged--some would say intemperate at ...
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The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game
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Oscar Robertson
The only player in the history of the NBA to average a triple-double an entire season reflects on the game that made him famous. THE BIG O traces Robertson's entire basketball career, from his college days at Indiana to his team's Olympic gold medal in 1960 to his storied days in the league. The book also provides an inside look into the sports ...
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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Theodore Rosengarten, Nate Shaw
Born in the 1890s, Nate Shaw could neither read nor write, but was able to tell his life story in detail. He had been a member of the Alabama Sharecropper Union in the 1930s, and his account reflects the social history of southern America.
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The Hidden Wound
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Wendell Berry
This book-length essay is a rigorously honest, deeply felt exploration of the "hidden wound" of racism and its damaging effect on American whites. Available for the first time in paperback.
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island
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Cornelia Walker Bailey, Christena Bledsoe
Since the early 1800s, remote Sapelo Island in Georgia has been home to the Geechee, a semi-autonomous African-American society with its own customs, ways of speech, and means of living. Threatened by the encroachment of developers and the state of Georgia, Geechee culture faces eradication, a fate that this memoir does its best to forestall by ...
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A Choice of Weapons
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Gordon Parks, Jr.
This is the compelling autobiography of the award-winning photographer and artist who was only sixteen when he moved from Kansas to Minnesota in 1928.
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Heat: My Life on and Off the Diamond
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Dwight Gooden, Bob Kapisch, Bob Klapisch
Dwight Gooden looks back at his fourteen years in the Big Leagues. He addresses the dangerous drug addiction that almost destroyed his career and describes his personal road to recovery.
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Angels Along the Way
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Della Reese
A biography of the entertainer, television actress, and ordained minister, in which she reveals how consistent faith in God helped her endure the loss of her mother, the difficulties of single-motherhood, a serious illness, and other traumas.
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The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America
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Samuel F Yette
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The Pact
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Dr. Sampson Davis
Filled with drama, courage, temptation, and ultimately, triumph, this is the uplifting story of three teenaged boys from broken homes in Newark, New Jersey, who pledged to support one another in realizing their dreams. Despite tremendous difficulties they faced, today two are doctors and one is a dentist.
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Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan Matzeliger
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Barbara Mitchell, Hetty Mitchell (Illustrator)
Jan Matzeliger felt anything but welcome in Philadelphia in 1873. As well as being a foreigner, Jan was half African American, which meant that most doors were closed to him. Although the Civil War had been over for nearly ten years, inequality for African Americans still persisted in its aftermath. However, Jan refused to let prejudice keep him ...
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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
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Sir Charles Murray
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Never Die Easy
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Walter Payton, Don Yaeger, Matt Suhey (Foreword by)
This sports autobiography chronicles the life on and off the field of Walter Payton the NFL leading rusher who died in 1999 from liver cancer. Payton's athletic success was matched by the kindness of his heart; he used his fame in positive ways, including raising money for programs to help needy children. With his coauthor, the famed sportswriter ...
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Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler
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Kathryn Talalay
A biography of the black pianist and composer, one of the greatest child prodigies of the 1930s, whose phenomenal talent met with overwhelming early success only to languish just as rapidly, a victim of the tragedies and prejudices that overtook her.
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Daniel O'Donnell: My Story
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Daniel O'Donnell, Eddie Rowley
From humble beginnings in County Donegal in Ireland to worldwide recording success, Daniel O'Donnell recounts the incredible story of his life, charting the ups and downs with remarkable honesty. Through wonderful anecdotes, Daniel recalls his early years and the moment he set his heart on becoming a singer, and gives a personal acount of his ...
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