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• Another Word for Love

  a Memoir

  Wallace, Carvell,

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  "A lyrical meditation on healing-told through the lenses of justice, sex, love, family, and death-by journalist and podcaster Carvell Wallace"

• Better Living Through Birding

  Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

  Cooper, Christian

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  Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park. When birdwatching in the park one morning in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black AF History

  the Un-whitewashed Story of America

  Harriot, Michael,

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  From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.

• The Black Box

  Writing the Race

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

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  A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dead Are Arising

  the Life of Malcolm X

  Payne, Les, 1941-2018,

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  An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dressed in Dreams

  a Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

  Ford, Tanisha C.,

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  In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• King

  a Life

  Eig, Jonathan,

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  Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.

• Load in Nine Times

  Poems

  Walker, Frank X., 1961-

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  For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers--including his own ancestors--who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Message

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Hidden Meanings

  RuPaul, 1960-

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  From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swans of Harlem

  Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

  Valby, Karen,

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  The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now.

• There's Always This Year

  on Basketball and Ascension

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pushout

  the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

  Morris, Monique W., 1972-

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  For four years Monique W. Morris, author of Black Stats, chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged-by teachers, administrators, and the justice system-and degraded…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just as I Am

  a Memoir

  Tyson, Cicely,

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  The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth…Read moreRead more of this annotation