Teaching References and Culture

Teresa Norman (A)

List Price: $18.00 (Paperback – Name Reference – 1998)

Names are a hallmark of our heritage, reflections of both the ethnic and religious roots of our past and our dreams for our childrens future. This A-to-Z guide includes more than 10,000 names, ranging from African names to contemporary…

Kevin Powell (A) Hill Harper (Foreward)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – Self Help / Mentoring / Man to Man Conversations – 2008)

The Black Male Handbook is a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community,…

Michelle Alexander (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Paperback – Social Justice /American Criminal Justice System/ African American Incarceration – 2010)

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…

Isabel Wilkerson (A)

List Price: $20.00 (Paperback – African American History / The Migration South from 1915-1970 – 2010).

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel…

Roxanne Jones (A), Jessie Paolucci (A), Tony Dungy (FRWD)

List Price: $35.00 (Hardcover – African American History / Sports – 2010)

They are heroes, stars, agitators, and entertainers; mentors, innovators, history-makers, and record-breakers. They are the men and women whose physical gifts buoyed the spirits of a people and lifted up the soul…

Retha Powers (A) and Henry Louis Gates (FRWD)

List Price: $40.00 (Hardcover – Reference / Black Quotations- 2013)

Description: A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.

BARTLETT’S FAMILIAR BLACK QUOTATIONS paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand…

Beverly Bond (A and E)

List Price: $30.00 (Hardcover – Celebrates Black Women’s Achievements and Success – 2018)

From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.

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Janet Christine Stickmon (A)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Motherhood Advice / Consists of 18 Letters – 2019)

How would you explain today’s social climate to Black parents visiting from other planets? In a collection of letters with topics ranging from the politics of hair to generational wealth, Janet Stickmon writes to Black…

Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) 

List Price: $28.00 ( Hardcover – Slavery and Escape – 2019) 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for…

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…

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…

Toni Morrison (A) 

The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with…

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…

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.…

Naomi O’Brien (A) and LaNesha Tabb (A)

List Price:$26.95 (Paperback – Teaching Reference / Curriculum – 2020)

Reimagine social studies through culture, diversity, and inclusivity for all primary students

Primary educators know that little kids can do big things. So why teach the same old lessons when we can expose…

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…

 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…

Speaking with Spirit is a collection of sacred words. The utterances of many millennium have been compiled for the reader from across the waters of the ancient and classic writings of Ancient Kemet (Egypt) and West…

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…

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…

Jennifer Harvey (A)

List Price: $19.99  (Paperback – Raising Children / Anti- Racism –  2019)

This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be able and active anti-racist allies.

With a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids<span…

Ijeoma Oluo (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Paperback – Race Relations / Social Justice – 2019)

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America

Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy — from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans…

 Beverly Danielle Tatum (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Race Dynamics / Conversations – 2017) 

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism — now fully revised and updated

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is…

Omowale Adewale (Editor) and A.Breeze Harper (Editor)

List Price: $22.00 (Paperback – Vegan Cooking and Culture – 2021) 

Black vegan men discuss masculinity, sexuality, race, diet, health, fatherhood, social justice, animal rights, and the environment in this companion volume to Sistah Vegan.

In 2010, Lantern published Sistah Vegan, a landmark…

AGholdy Muhammad (A)

List Price: $35.99 (Paperback – Teaching Reference – 2020)

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names, Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from…

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…

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…

ABOUT THE SUM OF US (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS)

The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together.

The future can be…

Positive Affirmations Journal for Black Teen Boys: 3 Simple Steps to Effectively Use Affirmations

Are you looking for a book that engages pre-teen/teen boys and provides positive words that can motivate you and build your confidence? This journal is the perfect gift for you or any young man in your life.

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This book isn’t just for one kind of entrepreneur—it’s for every kind. Whether you’re thriving with purpose or struggling to grow your business and battle self-doubt, No One is Self-Made offers solutions and encouragement you need to push forward with the right community.

From the visionary behind the groundbreaking Village Market,…

Ajuan Mance (A and ILT)

List Price: $22.95 (Hardcover – African American Resistance in Black America -2022)

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…

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…

Love and Money Couple Card Game helps in honest communication! If you’re looking to build a closer connection with your partner and better understand their thoughts about money, the Love and Money Couple Card Game is perfect for you.

This fun and informative game help promote honest communication while providing financial questions to get…

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her debut picture book—a tour de force that uses the principles of Kwanzaa to talk about the history of African Americans. This lyrical, powerful tribute is sumptuously illustrated by New Yorker artist and rising star Loveis…

Dr. Bettina L. Love  (A)

List Price: $29.99 (Hardcover – Excellent Teaching Reference – 2023)

“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…