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$26.99Self-Love Workbook for Black Women: Empowering Exercises to Build Self-Compassion and Nurture Your True Self
$16.99Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
$30.00The Can-Do Mindset: How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight for Your Passions
Original price was: $28.00.$26.00Current price is: $26.00.No One Is Self-Made: A Motivational Self-Help Guide with a Community-Oriented Approach and Collective Support
$29.99Malcolm X For Beginners
Original price was: $16.99.$15.99Current price is: $15.99.The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less
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So Your Gonna Be A ParentSo, You’re Gonna Be a Parent?! takes you on a heartfelt journey through the first stages of life—from babies first cries and facial expressions to toddlerhood. This book helps guide parents through important childhood milestones building growth, trust, and love.
Written by Deborrah A. Bremond, this book is a must-have for every person stepping…
$10.99
The Ultimate Guide to Energy HealingThe Ultimate Guide to Energy Healing demystifies energy healing styles and practices and offers accessible techniques that you can use immediately for healing and self-care.
The popularity of energy healing issurging as people seek out alternative means of healing and wellness. While popular, energy healing can be intimidating to many, as it sits at the…
$26.99
Self-Love Workbook for Black Women: Empowering Exercises to Build Self-Compassion and Nurture Your True SelfShow yourself a little TLC with self-love exercises for Black women
As a Black woman, the many roles you fill can leave little room to take care of yourself. Prioritize your own joy, healing, and growth with this self-care workbook for Black women, filled with empowering exercises and affirmations that help you nurture your authentic…
$16.99
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land OwnershipWhy is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth.
“With heartfelt prose and unyielding honesty, Baker explores the depths of…
$30.00
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!Robert T. Kiyosaki (A)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Strategies for Personal Finance – 2017
April 2017 marks 20 years since Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad first made waves in the Personal Finance arena.
It has since become the #1 Personal Finance book of all time… translated into dozens of languages and sold around the world.
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin DiAngelo (A) and Michael Eric Dyson
List Price: $17.00 – Confronting Racism – 2018)
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly…
$17.00
Akbar Papers in African PsychologyDr. Naim Akbar (A)
List Price: $18.99 (Paperback – Psychology / African / Worldview – 2003)
African Psychology is not a thing, but a place-a view, a perspective, a way of observing. It is a perspective that is lodged in the historical primacy of the human view from the land that is known…
$18.99
The African American Baby Name BookTeresa 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…
$18.00
The Pan-AfricanistsKofi 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…
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The Souls of Black FolksW. 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…
$4.99
To Be A SlaveTom Feelings (A) and Julius Lester (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – History / Slave Narratives – 2005)
What was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced journey from Africa to the United States, their…
$8.99
Wavy, Curly, Kinky: The African American Childs Hair Care GuideDeborah R. Lilly (A)
A renowned stylist offers easy-to-follow hair-care instructions. In this hands-on guide, hairstylist Deborah Lilly shows parents the best ways to style and maintain African American boys and girls hair from infancy to the preteen…
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FANDEX FAMILY FIELD GUIDES: AFRICAAlex Katis (A)
List Price: $9.95 (Reference – African Culture and History – 2005)
What do you know of Zimbabwe’s glorious 11th-century civilization. The idealistic founding of Liberia and its long-standing democracy. What do you know of apartheid, Timbuktu, the gorillas of Malawi, Rwanda, the slave trade, Congolese rain forests, the Olduvai…
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Know Thy SelfNaim 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…
$14.00
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring InjuryJoy 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…
$19.95
Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind & SpiritQueen 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…
$20.00
The Destruction of Black CivilizationChancellor 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 -…
$29.95
The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for LifeKevin 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,…
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The Isis Papers: The Keys to the ColorsDr. 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…
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The New Jim CrowMichelle 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…
Original price was: $18.99.$13.99Current price is: $13.99.
The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel 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…
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Things Fall ApartChinua 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…
$13.00
What They Never Told You In History Class Vol. 1Indus 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,…
$19.95
Black History for BeginnersDenise 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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African History for BeginnersHerb Boyd (A) and Shey Wolvek Pfister (ILT)
List Price: $14.95. (Paperback – Graphic Novel / African History – 2007)
African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory of the Pharaohs and Towers of Zimbabwe, the cosmology of the Yoruba, the courage of the Masai…
$14.95
Say It Loud: An Illustrated History of the Black AthleteRoxanne 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…
$35.00
NEW Visions For A Black ManNa’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…
$14.00
Ra Sekhi Kemetic Reiki: Level 1Rekhit 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…
$18.95
Middle PassageCharles 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…
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The Mis-Education of the NegroCarter G. Woodson (A)
List Price: $9.95 (Paperback – Denounces Eurocentric Education / Supports Black Studies – First Pub. 1933)
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American…
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Bartlett’s Familiar Black QuotationsRetha 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…
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One Day My Soul Just Opened UpIyanla Vanzant (A)
List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Self Help Women – 1998)
Iyanla Vanzant, the star of the hit Oprah Winfrey Network show Iyanla: Fix My Life, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve…
$18.99
They Came Before ColumbusIvan 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…
$23.00
Black Women For BeginnersS. Pearl Sharp (A) and Beverly Hawkins Hall (ILT)
List Price: $15.95 (Paperback – History / Black Women – 2011)
Description: There are over 519 million Black Women on the planet Earth, give or take a dozen. There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country and in…
$15.95
The Black Holocaust For BeginnersS. E. Anderson (A) and Vanessa Holley (ILT)
List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – The Black Holocaust – 2007)
Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust – from the start of the European…
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Black Panthers for BeginnersHerb 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…
$15.95
Exploding The Myths, Vol. I: Nile Valley Contributions to CivilizationAnthony 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…
$25.00
Ancient FutureWayne 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…
$24.95
Heal Thyself for Health and LongevityQueen Afua (A)
List Price: $18.95 (Paperback – Holistic Health and Natural Living – 2012)
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Native SonRichard 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…
$16.99
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our TruthBeverly 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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Princess Nefertari: Protectress of the Nile: Nefertari Saga book 1Gregory Walker (A)
List Price: $19.99 (Paperback – Ancient Egyptian History / Queen Mother Nefertari – 2014)
In world history there has never been a national hero celebrated for as long nor revered as much as Ancient Egypt’s Queen Mother Ahmesh Nefertari. She was a real African heroine who changed the course of…
$19.99
Shades Of Memnon Book 2: Ra Force RisingGregory 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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$19.99
BecomingMichelle Obama (A)
List Price: $34.00 (Hardcover – First Lady Autobiography – 2018)
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As…
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To Black Parents Visiting Earth: Raising Black Children in the 21st CenturyJanet 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…
$15.99
A History of African Civilizations (2nd Revised Edition)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…
$29.95
The Water DancerTa-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…
$28.00
The African Origin of Civilization, Myth or RealityChiekh 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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