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Caribbean Crossing
African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized
that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds
with other nations. Haiti’s first leaders looked especially hard at the United
States, which had a sizeable free black population that included...
Roms & riverains
Une politique municipale de la race
Language: French
Release Date: February 18, 2014
L’argument est le suivant : ce qui se passe autour des Roms n’est pas l’éternel retour d’une haine du nomade, ce n’est pas identique à ce qui se passe autour des immigrés extra-européens, ce n’est pas non plus la simple répétition de ce qu’on a connu sous Sarkozy. Il s’agit ici...
Space Between the Stars
My Journey to an Open Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with...
The Hardest Working Man
How James Brown Saved the Soul of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
The untold story of the night a divide nation turned to James Brown—and he delivered hope and calm in the form of an immortal concert
Since James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received many stirring tributes. Yet few have addressed his contribution in the darkest...
The Echo from Dealey Plaza
The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the first African American assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption.
Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when...
Untouchables
My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has rarely been told. This remarkable book achieves...
The Love Prison Made and Unmade
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man**—a poignant story of hope and disappointment that lays bare the toll prison takes not only on those behind bars, but on their families and relationships.**
Ebony’s...
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
**Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011....
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting...
How I Shed My Skin
Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and...
James Baldwin
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The FBI’s secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art...
by Tavis Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment.
Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was scarce and the sight of other black faces...
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
New York Times Editor’s Pick.
Library Journal Best Books of 2019.
TIME Magazine's "Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far."
O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.”
Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L. Book Awards Winner
The Root Best of...