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Queen Afua (A)

List Price: $20.00 (Paperback – Black Women / Holistic Health – 2001)

A Best Seller!

Queen Afua is a nationally renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and dedicated healer of women bodies and women souls who practices a uniquely Afrocentric spirituality. Her classic bestseller, Heal Thyself, forever changed the way African…

Ta Nehisi Coates ( A) 

List Price: $21.00 (Paperback – Racism, Social Justice, Reparations, Obama and more – 2019) 

In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.…

Inspired by long-buried true stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, this powerful novel offers a searing portrayal of resistance. From Clay Cane, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Grift, it’s a must-read for fans of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett.

As turmoil simmers…

 Harriet A. Washington (A)

List Price: $17.95 (Paperback – Reveals Medical Mistreatment of Black People – 2007)

The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read…

Ivan Van Sertima (A)

List Price: $23.00 (Paperback – Africans Pre-Columbus – 2003)

They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles…

Nikole Hannah-Jones (A and Creator), New York Times Magazine (Creator), Caitlin Roper  (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor) and Jake Silverstein (Editor)

List Price: $38.00 (Hardcover – Re-Envisioning Slavery in American History – 2021)

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision…

YOSEF BEN-JOCHANNAN (A)

List Price: $28.99 (Paperback – World Religions – 1991)

The Black Man’s Religion Volume 1 

African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” first published in 1970, continues to be one of Dr. Ben’s most thought-provoking works. This critical examination of the history, beliefs and myths, remains instructive and fresh. By highlighting the…

Dr. Llaila O. Afrika (A)

List Price: $21.95 (Paperback – Health Advice and Remedies – 2012)

“A great amount of research in a highly organized manner. It is of vital importance to the African-American and the world community. This information is essential for professionals and everyone to utilize in lifestyle and to self.” (William Richardson,…

Jason Alexander (A) and Ibrahm X. Kendi (A) 

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism–and antiracism–in America

This is NOT a history book.
This…

Donna Brazile (A),  Yolanda Caraway (A), Leah Daughtry, (A), Minyon Moore (A) and  Veronica Chambers (A)

List Price: $28.99 (Hardcover –  Memoirs / Politics – 2018)

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.”

The four most powerful African American women in politics share the story of their friendship…

George G. M. James (A)

List Price: $13.95 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History vs Greek History / Arts and Sciences / Acknowledgement – 1954)

The book is an attempt to show that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not the Greeks, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians; and the praise…

**A November LibraryReads Pick**

Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of…

Anthony T. Browder (A)

List Price: $25.00 (Paperback – Ancient African History / Nile Valley – 1992)

An in-depth examination of Nile Valley civilization and its influences on the development of modern culture.

Several customers recommended this book. True, it is a book on ancient African history and origins and it is one…

One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

One of The Washington Post‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year

A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick

“Powerful… [and] fascinating.” —The Washington Post

The remarkable story of Edward…

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

As the United States celebrates the nation triumph over race with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped…

Isabel Wilkerson ( A)

List Price: $32.00 (Hardcover –  America’s Hidden Caste System – 2020)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York…

Wayne B. Chandler (A) and Ivan Van Sertima

List Price: $24.95  (Paperback – Ancient African History – 2000)

Ancient Future celebrates the wisdom of those ancient civilizations that did not disassociate the philosophical, spiritual, and material realms of life. This book is an attempt to re-create this holistic experience in hopes that a…

Denise Dennis (A) and Susan Willmarth (ILT)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback- Graphic Novel / African American History – 2007)

This book covers a rich history often ignored. It chronicles the struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa right up through Civil Rights and the different kind of struggle Blacks face today. (192 pgs)

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In homage to the radical power of art, Living While Black celebrates the small acts of resistance that comprise the daily lives of Black folks by presenting them in a series of vivid illustrations.

Laughing. Grieving. Being a kid. Even the purest expression of pleasure, the…

Toni Morrison (A) 

The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with…

Bettina Love (A)

List Price: $16.95 (Paperback – Teaching Reference / Educational Reform – 2020)

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.

Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love…

Charles Johnson (A)

List Price: $17.00 (Paperback – African American History / Middle Passage / Slave Trade – 1998)

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece of a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick heroic in proportion to fiction that hooks the mind” (The New York…

B is For Black Wealth is an ABC book for children designed to expose them to entrepreneurial concepts and business terminology.

This exposure is meant to build confidence in our children while simultaneously educating the adults that love them. This book is intentional about teaching concepts related to group economics, business ownership and…

W. E. Du Boise (A)

List Price: $4.99 (Paperback – African American History / Negro Life / 20th Century / Race – 2005)

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and…

William A. Darity Jr. (A) and A. Kirsten Mullen (A) 

List Price:  $22.00 (Paperback – A Case for Reparations – 2022)

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically.

But neither Reconstruction nor the…

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education ‘reform’ in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream.”

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Chinua Achebe (A)

List Price: $13.00 (Paperback – African History / Post Colonization – 1994)

Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a äóìstrong manäó? of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and…

Kofi A. Annan (A), Dudley J. Thompson (A) and Barrington A. Watson (ILT)

List Price: $15.00 (Paperback – Biographies / Pan Africanists – 2005)

This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout…

Gregory Walker (A)

List Price $19.99 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History – 2015) 

Series: Shades of Memnon (Book 2)

The adventure continues in the second installment of the Shades of Memnon series, where it is 1200 B.C. and a young Kushite must fight for his family’s survival. (212 pgs) 

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Barack Obama (A)

List Price: $45.00 (Hardcover – Biography -President Barack Obama -2020)

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
 
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable…

Ibram X. Kendi (A) 

List Price: $27.00  (Hardcover –  Self Help / How To Be An Antiracist – 2019) 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.

“The most courageous book to date on…

Indus Khamit-Kush (A) and Lon Sharpe (EDIT)

List Price: $19.95 (Paperback – African History / Origins / Contributions – 2003)

Author: Indus Khamit Kush, tells of the stolen legacy of African people referencing historical documents. Denied, was their creation of philosophy, science,…

Chancellor Williams (A)

List Price: $29.95 (Paperback – African Civilizations / Invasions – 1987)

A foundation and new approach to the history of our race… It was pioneering research into unexplored areas. This book is not only needed now, but it will be read by future generations. ~ John Henrik Clarke -…

Joy de Gruy Leary (A)

List Price: $19.95 (Paperback – Effects of Slavery/ Healing / Self- Help and Motivation – 2005)

Description: While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and…

Naim Akbar (A)

List Price $14.00 (Paperback – Knowledge / Self – 1998)

This exciting book lays out guidelines for establishing a genuine curriculum in self-knowledge and plainly identifies that the development of consciousness of oneself is a process that emerges from exposure to the fields of knowledge that help people to…

A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021

Named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Smithsonian, Esquire, Entropy, The Christian Science Monitor, WBEZ’s Nerdette Podcast, TeenVogue, GoodReads, SheReads, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, <em…

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (A)

List Price: $19.95 (Paperback – 25 Essays on White Supremacy – 2004)

During the course of the struggle of African people against European racism, brutality and domination, many innovative thinkers have risen from our ranks. The greatest and most courageous scholars have devoted their lives to the pursuit…

Prof. Manu Ampim (A) 

List Price: $29.95 (Paperback – African History – 2019) 

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS is a book for both the general public and the classroom, based on the original primary research of Prof. Ampim, and it is complete with lesson plans and unit resources. This book follows the African…

Andrea M. Perry (A)

List Price: $24.99 (Hardcover – Personal and Real Assets, Value and Empowerment – 2020)

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result…

Chiekh Anta Diop (A)

List Price: $16.95 (Paperback – Ancient African History/ Egypt – 1989)

Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.  (336 pgs)

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Tiffany The Budgetnista Aliche (A)

List Price $26.00  (Hardcover – Financial Advice – 2021)

NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A ten-step plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your money—no matter how big or small your goals and no matter how rocky the market might be—by the inspiring and savvy…

Na’im Akbar (A)

List Price: $14.00 (Paperback – Black Manhood – 1991)

Visions For BlackMen raises issues which are not only important to black men but to all of us. How do we restore African manhood to those whom the society has not viewed as the chosen people? Discover the startling prediction of…

With his bestseller, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition of James Baldwin.

In his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories – our reporting,…

Rekhit Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet (A)

List Price: $18.95 (Paperback – Kemetic Reiki -2014)

Kemetic Reiki is an ancient science of spiritual healing that was practiced by the Egyptian priests, physicians and layman. This book is the Level 1 manual for learning the craft of Kemetic Reiki for personal spiritual development. It includes…

Mary Buffett (A) and Sean Seah (A)

List Price: $17.00 (Paperback – Business / Investing – 2019)

A clear, simple, and complete guide for beginning investors from bestselling author Mary Buffett and Sean Seah that explains Warren Buffett’s techniques of Value Investing and his proven strategies to ensure long-term success.

For twelve…

Ta-Nehisi Coates (A)

List Price: $26.00 (Hardcover / Personal Narrative / Essay on Race Etc.- 2019)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A revolutionary playbook for building generational wealth, no matter where you grew up—from the founders of the explosively popular podcast and financial literacy platform Earn Your Leisure

This audiobook features a special welcome message from co-author Rashad Bilal.

You deserve to be rich.

You deserve to make a purchase…

A gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom—and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds.

The Battle for the Black Mind is an explosive historical account of the struggle for educational justice in America. Drawing on over a decade of archival research, personal reflection, and keen sociological insight, this book traces a…

Richard Wright (A)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – African American Classic / Race and Class – 2005)

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young…