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Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp StrideSojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride

Andrea Davis Pinkney (A) and Brian Pinkney (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Biography / African American Leader / Abolitionist and Feminist – 2009)

A dynamic portrait of the freed slave whose physical and spiritual strength made her one of America most powerful abolitionist voices.

Synopsis:She was big. She was black. She was…

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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD WINNER! A stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual from an award-winning author and critically acclaimed illustrator. The classic lyrics have been reworked to…

Carole Boston Weatherford (Author) and Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

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Black Panthers for Beginners at AshayByTheBay.comBlack Panthers for Beginners

Herb Boyd (A) and Lance Tooks (ILT)

List Price: $15.95 (Paperback – African American History / Black Panthers / Civil Rights Era 2015)

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with…

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Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage. at AshayByTheBay.comBlack Indians: A Hidden Heritage

William Loren Katz (A)

List Price: $14.99 (Paperback – Native American /African American History – 1997)The compelling teen nonfiction account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America.

The first paths to freedom taken…

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Great Black Heroes: Five Brilliant Scientists Scholastic (Level 4)Great Black Heroes: Five Brilliant Scientists Scholastic (Level 4)

Lynda Jones (A) and Ron Garnett (ILT) 

 
List Price: $3.99 (Paperback – Scientists – 2000)
 
 
Describes the early…

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Jump!: From The Life Of Michael JordanJump!: From The Life Of Michael Jordan

Floyd Cooper (A and ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Biography / Sports / Basketball – 2004)

What was Michael Jordan like as a boy? You might be surprised that the greatest professional basketball player ever wasn’t even the best player in his own family!

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YUMMY at AshayByTehBay.comYummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

G. Neri (A) and Randy Duburke (ILT)

List Price: $16.95 (Paperback –   South Side Gang Member  – 2010)

Eleven-year old Roger is trying to make sense of his classmate Robert “Yummy” Sandifer’s death, but first he has to make sense of Yummy’s life. Yummy could be as tough as a pit bull…

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What Color Is My World at AshayByTheBay.comWhat Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (A) and Ray Obstfeld (A) and A.G. Ford (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – African American History / Scientists – 2013)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA’s all time leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book.

Did you know that James West invented…

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha Franklin, Queen of SoulR-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul

Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and Frank Morrison (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Soul Singer / Queen of Soul – 2020)

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award! From a New York Times bestselling author and an acclaimed illustrator comes this vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin that pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this…

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We Were Eight Years In PowerWe Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy

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.…

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