FEATURED BOOKS
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Sanity of Survival
$27.95Chicago-based psychiatrist Dr. Carl C. Bell presents this collection of articles spanning his 25-year-long career in community psychiatry. His work stresses the importance of providing for Blacks medical and psychiatric assistance.
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Ascending And Other Poems
$10.00Best known for his anthologies on Black literature and his scholarship on Black life and culture, Richard A. Long’s own creative writing would have remained obscure and under represented had it not been for Eleanor Traylor, Sterling Brown Professor and Graduate Professor of English at Howard University, who asked Third World Press to produce a commemorative edition of Ascending and Other Poems. As a tribute to Long and to his legacy, this slim volume of verse introduces this poet to an entirely new audience. Ascending and Other Poems originally produced through the DuSable Museum of African American History under the guidance of Margaret Burroughs engaged his followers in the mid 1970s. Today almost thirty years later, it still engages and challenges readers with profound revelations and alluring language.
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A sound investment: Short stories for young readers
$12.95A reprint of Sanchez’ classic collection of children’s stories.
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Americus
$22.95What happens to fraternal love when identical twins stop being identical? To romantic love when indiscretions done in the dark have a secret witness? What happens to a family when the love that binds-also strangles? Inspired by Egyptian mythology and young America’s coming-of-age story, AMERICUS follows the lives of rambunctious identical twins Asar and Set Americus. After Set contracts vitiligo (a skin disease that fades body pigmentation in patches), he goes from family favorite to stare-provoking freak. At 10-years-old. When Set’s super-capable mother can’t keep her promise to cure him, Set blames her-but not more than she blames herself.
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FULL CIRCLE: RACE, LAW, & JUSTICE (Hard Back)
$24.95Over the past six decades Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has transformed a blank canvas into a colorful legal landscape of successful civil and criminal cases. Some of these cases will be discussed, analyzed, and written about for the years to come. The authors and researchers of Full circle have been gathering primary and secondary research since May, 2015. Because the book’s subject, Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has been a public figure for more than fifty years, the public record yields a great deal. Multiple in -depth interviews with Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, have revealed a person with deep and honest reflections about his life, his impact on society, and how his family, peers, and history will recall him and his contributions.
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The Rap on Gangsta Rap? Who Run It
$10.00This book is a critical review of the highly explosive and widely discussed musical art form called gangsta rap. Kitwana examines the ways Black culture, male-female relationships, sexism, white supremacy (racism), and gun violence converge in this controversial music form.
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A READER OF AFRI-CENTRIC THEORY & PRACTICE
$29.95A Book of Selected Compilation of Dr. Aminifu R. Harvey Afro/Afrocentric writings over the past five decades.
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KEEPING PEACE: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, LEGACY, COMMITMENT AND STRUGGLE
$14.95KEEPING PEACE: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, LEGACY, COMMITMENT AND STRUGGLE
Edited by Lasana KazembeHaki Madhubuti, Micheal Pfleger and Cornel West, A Poet, Preacher, And Philosopher……sit down to talk after greeting each other with warm laughter and the easy telling of quick stories from the last time they’d been together. There is genuine joy in the tones that emerge in their speech as the relax in the presence of each other’s work and legacy. The commonality and differences in the paths they’ve walked and the ideas they’ve promulgated adds a respectful tension necessary for high-level exchange and learning. Knowledge of history suggest smiles are imminent from knowing that they are again in the company of those who have not only charged into uncounted battles for human rights and justice, it is their life commitment and practice. Their ideas and work have expanded in understand and delivery. They have been criticized and often misunderstood and yet, they stood, and are still standing, in the growing storm we face today.
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FULL CIRCLE: RACE, LAW, & JUSTICE (PAPERBACK)
$19.95Over the past six decades Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has transformed a blank canvas into a colorful legal landscape of successful civil and criminal cases. Some of these cases will be discussed, analyzed, and written about for the years to come. The authors and researchers of Full circle have been gathering primary and secondary research since May, 2015. Because the book’s subject, Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has been a public figure for more than fifty years, the public record yields a great deal. Multiple in -depth interviews with Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, have revealed a person with deep and honest reflections about his life, his impact on society, and how his family, peers, and history will recall him and his contributions.
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QUICK FIRE
$12.95These Poems By Allyson Horton are proof that in the age of Google and social media, the steadfastness of intricate storytelling and lyrical balance will never be lost. As Horton writes, “Truth is stranger than fruit/blacker the berry/sweeter the pluck.” Horton’s tongue is the rich, complicated pluck. Rapid Tongue.
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BRILLIANT FLAME! AMIRI BARAKA: POEMS, PLAYS, POLITICS FOR THE PEOPLE
$32.95Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka is an intergenerational collection of writing from poets, dramatists, musicians, educators, historians and cultural workers and theorists examining the work and influence of Amiri Baraka.
The dramatist, novelist and poet, Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. Also, he advocated scientific socialism with his revolutionary inclined poems and aimed at creating aesthetic through them. Amiri Baraka’s writing career spans over nearly fifty years and has mostly focused on the subjects of Black Liberation and White Racism. Often recognized as a key founder of the Black Arts Movement, Amiri Baraka was a prolific writer and world-renowned poet. While this book provides its contributors a forum in which to examine his poetic and artistic aesthetics, Brilliant Flame! will more importantly bring to the forefront Baraka’s reach as political activist, historian and cultural visionary.
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LIBERATION NARRATIVES (CD)
$15.00In 2014, Mitchell was commissioned by the Jazz Institute of Chicago to write music inspired by the poetry of Haki Madhbuti. Liberation Narratives, the latest release by composer, flautist and conceptualist Nicole Mitchell, will be released by the notable African-American publisher, Third World Press. The founder and director of Third World Press is named Haiki R. Madhubuti. The album features Madhubuti reading his own poetry spanning his entire career from the 1960s to the present. Known formerly as Don L. Lee, he was a protege of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American poet to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
Mitchell and Madhubuti have a deep connection which spans a number of years, starting when Mitchell first moved to Chicago, and sought employment at Madhubuti’s Third World Press. She explains: “When moved to Chicago in 1990, I looked up Third World Press in the phone book and went down to this little storefront off of 75th and Cottage Grove. Here it was — a bookstore, a publishing company and a school all squeezed up in the same building. The vibe was exciting and I immediately asked to meet the owner, Haki Madhubuti. I told him I wanted to work there because I believed in what he was doing — he was making a real difference in the community. He looked at… more
CREDITS
released September 29, 2017
Liberation Narrative features Mitchell on flutes, vocalist Ugochi, trumpeter Pharez Whitted, cellist Tomeka Reid, violinist Rene Baker, pianist Miguel de la Cerna, bassist Harrison Bankhead, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara.
Children/Young Adults
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A sound investment: Short stories for young readers
$12.95A reprint of Sanchez’ classic collection of children’s stories.
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ALONENESS
$7.95In this book, Brooks offers an illustrated narrative that tells the child reader about the difference between being alone and being lonely, describing loneliness as a colorless, soundless state that makes one feel completely disconnected from the world. Aloneness, on the other hand, is described as being “delicious,” for one recognizes him/herself in the quietness of the space (8). Aloneness is further described as being with “you […] and pulse and nature keep you company. The little minutes are there, building into hours: the minutes that are the bricks of days and years” (14-5).
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THE DAY THEY STOLE THE LETTER J
$3.95When Jelani and Jerome steal the mysterious carved letter J from JoJo, strange things begin to happen and the boys find themselves in the frightening “World of J.”
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BEYOND THE BACK OF THE BUS
$9.95One of the most important moments in African American history comes alive in this account of Rosa Parks’ legendary stand against racial segregation in 1955. Presented with eye-catching illustrations and written in enjoyable, metered rhyme, the story tells how Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus led to the successful mass boycott of the transit system, when roughly 40,000 commuters avoided riding the bus for 382 days. Parks ultimately influenced the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement and directly opened the doors for Martin Luther King Jr. and other luminary activists.
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MY NAME IS ONEY JUDGE
$19.95This children’s book tells the true story of Oney Judge, a young African American woman who was a slave in George Washington’s presidential household. She liberated herself by way of a daring escape and defied his attempts to recapture her. Oney speaks to us from the pages of history: “I escaped one night in May 1796 when the President and Miss Martha were eating their dinner.” Author Diane D. Turner gives substance to this woman whose life has been documented in the stories of our nation’s history, but whose narrative very few people know. The book includes a timeline and glossary of terms to help young audiences understand more about this period of American history. For children ages 8-12.
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RELEASING THE SPIRIT
$15.00Poetry, short plays, and short stories written by young people as part of Chicago’s Gallery 37 Project in 1997. The illustrations are also done by the youthful participants in Gallery 37. It was compiled and edited by Haki Madhubuti
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DESCRIBE THE MOMENT
$15.00Featuring poetry, short plays, and short stories, this collection contains content written by young people as part of Chicago’s Gallery 37 Project, an art education program for youths aged 14–21. The illustrations are also done by the participants in the 1998 Gallery 37 program.
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THE STORY OF KWANZAA
$6.95The Story of Kwanzaa is a primary level reader offering a good, visual introduction to the origin and tradition of Kwanzaa. It should be used both to teach and reinforce academic skills as well as to introduce and reinforce basic cultural enrichment objectives.
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AFROCENTRIC SELF INVENTORY AND DISCOVERY WKBOOK
$5.95For ages 12 to 15, the Afrocentric Self-Inventory And Discovery Workbook teaches critical thinking skills and introduces Black youth to the basics of African-centered cultural values. The easy to follow exercises will help Black youth to better understand and appreciate themselves, their community, and world.
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I LOOK AT ME
$3.00An inspiring, visually rich beginner reader for preschoolers, this vocabulary builder teaches children self-love by introducing them to African-centered concepts–unity and nation building–as well as positive Black roles.
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SWEETEST BERRY ON THE BUSH
$8.00For young teens, the nineteen short stories in “The Sweetest Berry On The Bush” are simple, pithy, narrative adages crafted for “telling” as well as reading.
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BLACK FAIRY & OTHER PLAYS
$13.95A series of short plays for young children that can be used as a teaching tool.
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
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Sanity of Survival
$27.95Chicago-based psychiatrist Dr. Carl C. Bell presents this collection of articles spanning his 25-year-long career in community psychiatry. His work stresses the importance of providing for Blacks medical and psychiatric assistance.
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A READER OF AFRI-CENTRIC THEORY & PRACTICE
$29.95A Book of Selected Compilation of Dr. Aminifu R. Harvey Afro/Afrocentric writings over the past five decades.
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NOT OUR PRESIDENT
$22.95“Having spent the past six months—since the stunning election of #45 to the presidency of the U.S.— reading a broad range of analyses concerning “how” and “why,” I am certain about the unparalleled truth-telling of this co-edited volume, NOT OUR PRESIDENT. The veteran writer/publisher Haki Madhubutiand poet/professor Lasana Kazembe have assembled a dazzling array of readings by a multi-racial, multi-generational group who would likely not have appeared between the same two covers under a different set of circumstances. They are professors, poets, politicians, organizers, activists, historians, journalists, rappers, educators, scholars, elders, lefties, nationalists, psychologists, radicals, millennials. They are prolific and award-winning writers…and the sitting mayor of New Orleans.
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GEM OF THE OCEAN: AUGUST WILSON IN THE BLACK DIASPORA
$23.95The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) has become a fixture of the Winston-Salem, North Carolina community since its inception in 1989. At the 2007 NBTF International Colloquium presenters including Wole Soyinka, Kwame Dawes, Ed Bullins and over a dozen other scholars and writers shared works on the impact of August Wilson, on his plays, and on the state of African and African American theatre. Conference coordinator, Olasope O. Oyelaran, has gathered these essays in this volume, Gem of the Ocean: August Wilson in the Black Diaspora, which pays tribute to both August Wilson and NBTF founder Larry Leon Hamlin. With this collection, Oyelaran adds to the already expanding canon of writing that celebrates Wilson’s contributions to the world stage.
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THE MAGIC OF JUJU
$21.95A contextual historical examination of the civil rights movement and the artists who inspired it, this recollection depicts this storied era and how these artists signified the affecting change they helped create. The exploration details the development of the Black Arts Movement–from precursor activities such as the Umbra Workshop to transitional activities such as Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “”for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf””–and gives in-depth information about the role of prominent poets, such as Amiri Baraka, and the influence of black music.
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MEDITATIONS AND ASCENSIONS: BLACK WRITERS ON WRITING
$18.95MEDITATIONS AND ASCENSIONS: BLACK WRITERS ON WRITING
by Brenda GreeneRepresenting conversations from the Eighth National Black Writers Conference in 2006, this collection provides in-depth meditations and analyses of literature by black writers. Reflections on the black experience, the American experience, and a more global experience and worldview are all widely discussed, as well as future trends and ascensions for black literature. Students, teachers, journalists, and other writers will welcome the chance to view parts of the writing process and see inside the heads of prominent black writers. Participants include Marita Golden, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Reed, Herb Boyd, Valerie Boyd, Haki R. Madhubuti, Elizabeth Nunez, Tananarive Due, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Camille Yarbrough, Susan McHenry, and many others.
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ARKANSIPPI MEMWARS: POETRY, PROSE & CHANTS 1962-2012
$24.95Celebrating a career that spans four decades, Eugene B. Redmond’s collected work—Arkansippi Memwars—triumphs. An award-winning poet, playwright and educator, Redmond represents through his body of work the veracity and audacity of the Black Arts Movement, the traditions of the Yoruba, and the complex history of the Black American. The poetry of Redmond moves to the cadence of drums stripped from his ancestors and reclaimed by the burgeoning Hip-Hop movement of the 1970s. Fearless, sharp, and satirically masterful are but a few words to describe the excellence of Eugene Redmond and his poetry.
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FIRST WORD
$21.95An informative collection of narratives (in their words) from some of the most prominent and important Black scholars, artists. From Kwaku Person-Lynn: The most important thing to remember is that the person I am talking with has a body of knowledge that needs to be preserved for the next generation. We needed to hear our history and culture from our perspective….To know that thousands were listening to the teachings of John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef-ben-Jochannan, Ivan Van Sertima, Frances Cress Welsing, W.E.B. DuBois, Asa Hilliard, Na’im Akbar, and many others was transformative to so many lives.
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TAKING BULLETS
$17.95Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century America Confronting White Nationalism, Supremacy, Privilege, Plutocracy, and Oligarchy starts a national debate on Black male empowerment with an urgency for the survival of a generation of Black men and boys who are confronted with disparity and adversity on the streets of every city in America. Haki Madhubuti speaks directly to these young men with an empathic understanding of their plight, yet he sees hope and a vision for their future. In Taking Bullets, he challenges community leaders, educators, and all of those individuals who directly impact the lives of our young men to develop sustained strategies to confront and challenge the systematic problems of police violence, mass incarceration and economic disparity.
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ROLE CALL
$24.95“Welcome to the 21st Century” bids the opening line of this literary “multimedia” experience, brought to us by three leading Black author-activists of the post-Civil Rights Movement generation. This collection of more than 300 poems, essays, paintings, photos, and mixed media representations features myriad voices of the generation bridging the gap between the children of the Civil Rights Movement and those of the present hip hop movement.
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BLACK CULTURE CENTERS
$22.95A compilation of essays presenting the conditions and promises of the university for African American faculty and students that is enhanced by the development of Black culture centers in the university community.
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TOUGH NOTES: A HEALING CALL FOR CREATING EXCEPTIONAL BLACK MEN
From the author of the best-selling Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition, Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Redemption, and Heartlove: Wedding and Love Poems, comes this profound series of letters, notes, and written conversations to young boys and men. In this moving text, Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, publisher, editor, educator, and institution builder, hopes to guide young men in search of direction to make good choices and wise, informed decisions on the road to a healthy life. Madhubuti writes as a caring father and resourceful teacher, with the insight of one who has benefited from his elders.
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ART OF WORK
$14.95This comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Haki R. Madhubuti demonstrates why he is such a pivotal figure in black literature. Both his life experiences and literary contributions are explored, highlighting his roles as political activist, writer, educator, and husband. A concise yet thorough examination of an oft-overlooked period of black literary history is also included. This discussion argues that Madhubuti more than most of his contemporaries successfully transformed from poet-activist to modern-day visionary and continues to challenge the status quo in pursuit of justice and peace
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MY LONG JOURNEY HOME (PAPERBACK)
$15.95The daughter of Oliver Golden, an African American expatriate and agrarian activist of the early 1900’s, and Bertha Bialek, youngest daughter of Polish American emigres of Jewish descent, Lily Golden has a special place in history. In this account of her experience, Golden provides a connection between the contemporary and historical relationships of America to Russia. Golden offers a distinctly different and refreshing point of view of the lives and experiences of Russia in her often alluring and romantic, sometimes bitterly painful, yet always vivid and intimate details of her life as a dark-skinned Russian surviving in and struggling against turbulent changes. She brings her tale of a sometimes charmed sometimes challenged existence full circle in her descriptions of her ultimate contact with distant relatives in the United States. Lily Golden allows the reader access into her lifelong revelation that family and community ties are boundless by time and geography.
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MY LONG JOURNEY HOME (HARDCOVER)
$24.95The daughter of Oliver Golden, an African American expatriate and agrarian activist of the early 1900’s, and Bertha Bialek, youngest daughter of Polish American emigres of Jewish descent, Lily Golden has a special place in history. In this account of her experience, Golden provides a connection between the contemporary and historical relationships of America to Russia. Golden offers a distinctly different and refreshing point of view of the lives and experiences of Russia in her often alluring and romantic, sometimes bitterly painful, yet always vivid and intimate details of her life as a dark-skinned Russian surviving in and struggling against turbulent changes. She brings her tale of a sometimes charmed sometimes challenged existence full circle in her descriptions of her ultimate contact with distant relatives in the United States. Lily Golden allows the reader access into her lifelong revelation that family and community ties are boundless by time and geography.
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BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL: A MARATHONER’S STORY (HARDCOVER)
$24.95The autobiography of Dolores Cross’s journey from the housing projects of Newark, New Jersey, to her appointment as president of Morris Brown College. She tells of her journey out of poverty, through the tumult of the 60s and the civil rights movement, to a series of prestigious academic appointments, the joy of motherhood, and running her first marathon at the age of 50.
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REPORT FROM PART TWO (PAPERBACK)
$14.95Musings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks that is a reprise of a prior book, “Report from Part One,” published by Broadside Press in 1972. Brooks was the Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986. This volume includes her introductions of visiting writers during that period.
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BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL: A MARATHONER’S STORY (PAPERBACK)
$14.95The autobiography of Dolores Cross’s journey from the housing projects of Newark, New Jersey, to her appointment as president of Morris Brown College. She tells of her journey out of poverty, through the tumult of the 60s and the civil rights movement, to a series of prestigious academic appointments, the joy of motherhood, and running her first marathon at the age of 50.
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REPORT FROM PART TWO (HARDCOVER)
$21.95Musings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks that is a reprise of a prior book, “Report from Part One,” published by Broadside Press in 1972. Brooks was the Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986. This volume includes her introductions of visiting writers during that period.
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YELLOWBLACK: THE FIRST TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF A POET’S LIFE
$15.95Powerful prose, poetry, and jazz riffs chronicle the first 21 years of the life of Haki R. Madhubuti, formerly Don L. Lee: poet, publisher, editor, and activist. He was raised by his mother Maxine, whose life is also recounted–including gritty details of how she used her body to feed, house, and shelter her children without help from their absentee father. Despite the obstacles in his childhood, music and literature molded the young Don Lee, effectively saving his life.
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FULL CIRCLE: RACE, LAW, & JUSTICE (Hard Back)
$24.95Over the past six decades Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has transformed a blank canvas into a colorful legal landscape of successful civil and criminal cases. Some of these cases will be discussed, analyzed, and written about for the years to come. The authors and researchers of Full circle have been gathering primary and secondary research since May, 2015. Because the book’s subject, Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has been a public figure for more than fifty years, the public record yields a great deal. Multiple in -depth interviews with Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, have revealed a person with deep and honest reflections about his life, his impact on society, and how his family, peers, and history will recall him and his contributions.
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The Rap on Gangsta Rap? Who Run It
$10.00This book is a critical review of the highly explosive and widely discussed musical art form called gangsta rap. Kitwana examines the ways Black culture, male-female relationships, sexism, white supremacy (racism), and gun violence converge in this controversial music form.
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KEEPING PEACE: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, LEGACY, COMMITMENT AND STRUGGLE
$14.95KEEPING PEACE: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, LEGACY, COMMITMENT AND STRUGGLE
Edited by Lasana KazembeHaki Madhubuti, Micheal Pfleger and Cornel West, A Poet, Preacher, And Philosopher……sit down to talk after greeting each other with warm laughter and the easy telling of quick stories from the last time they’d been together. There is genuine joy in the tones that emerge in their speech as the relax in the presence of each other’s work and legacy. The commonality and differences in the paths they’ve walked and the ideas they’ve promulgated adds a respectful tension necessary for high-level exchange and learning. Knowledge of history suggest smiles are imminent from knowing that they are again in the company of those who have not only charged into uncounted battles for human rights and justice, it is their life commitment and practice. Their ideas and work have expanded in understand and delivery. They have been criticized and often misunderstood and yet, they stood, and are still standing, in the growing storm we face today.
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FULL CIRCLE: RACE, LAW, & JUSTICE (PAPERBACK)
$19.95Over the past six decades Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has transformed a blank canvas into a colorful legal landscape of successful civil and criminal cases. Some of these cases will be discussed, analyzed, and written about for the years to come. The authors and researchers of Full circle have been gathering primary and secondary research since May, 2015. Because the book’s subject, Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, has been a public figure for more than fifty years, the public record yields a great deal. Multiple in -depth interviews with Attorney James D. Montgomery, Sr, have revealed a person with deep and honest reflections about his life, his impact on society, and how his family, peers, and history will recall him and his contributions.
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LEST WE FORGET
$14.95White Hate Crimes: Howard Beach and Other Racial Atrocities offers a timely examination of the barely discussed, but widely practiced phenomenon of white-on-Black Crime. Although the Civil Rights legislation of the 1950s and 1960s suggested a movement toward racial harmony, the rise of conservatism during the Ronald Reagan Administration helped to create a climate that not only reversed civil rights gains, but lead to a resurgence of hatred and violence toward people of color and the poor. Dr. Alphonso Pinkney presents a riveting, historical account of white racially motivated individual and mob attacks on Blacks during the 1980s. Documenting the striking parallels of these attacks as a return to Reconstruction Era and early 1900s race riot styled lynchings, Pinkney provides engaging profiles of the victims and their attackers, reviews the legal proceedings, analyzes the affects on the families and communities involved, and demonstrates the legal system’s complicity in disrupting justice.
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WHY L.A. HAPPENED
$14.95A series of essays discussing the reasons for and the solutions to the rioting that took place in Los Angeles in 1992 and the violence that grew out of it in Atlanta.
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BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
$19.95Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biography of Malcolm X, more than 30 noted scholars from the African American community offer their opinions on Marable’s portrayal of the man whose short life still inspires speculation of what might have been.
Contributors
include: Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Abdul Alkalimat, Molefi Kete Asante, Rick Ayers, Bryonn Bain, Amiri Baraka, Aslaku Ber-hanu, Amir Bey, Todd Steven Burroughs, Ta-Nehisi Coates, William Jelani Cobb, Karl Evanzz, Iyaluua and Herman Ferguson, Bill Flectcher, Jr., Glen Ford, Rhone Fraser, Wil Haygood, Kelly Harris, Errol A. Henderson, Fred Hord, Peter James Hudson, Ezra Hyland, Regina Jennings, Peniel E. Joseph, Clyde Ledbetter Jr., Fred Logan, Kevin McGruder, Starla Muhammad, Nell Irvin Painter, Imani Perry, Gregory J. Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Diane D. Turner, Ilyasah Shabazz
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BLACK MEN
$15.95Here is the seminal and critical work that helped solidify Haki Madhubuti as an informed, passionate, and caring commentator on Black life, culture, relationships, and the development and stability of the Black community. In “Black Men,” an integral text for anyone with vested interest in building healthy, thriving Black families and communities, Madhubuti takes aim at some of the critical issues facing the African American family. He offers useful, pointed, practical solutions for overcoming these obstacles and challenges.
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ALONENESS
$7.95In this book, Brooks offers an illustrated narrative that tells the child reader about the difference between being alone and being lonely, describing loneliness as a colorless, soundless state that makes one feel completely disconnected from the world. Aloneness, on the other hand, is described as being “delicious,” for one recognizes him/herself in the quietness of the space (8). Aloneness is further described as being with “you […] and pulse and nature keep you company. The little minutes are there, building into hours: the minutes that are the bricks of days and years” (14-5).
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LIBERATION NARRATIVES (CD)
$15.00In 2014, Mitchell was commissioned by the Jazz Institute of Chicago to write music inspired by the poetry of Haki Madhbuti. Liberation Narratives, the latest release by composer, flautist and conceptualist Nicole Mitchell, will be released by the notable African-American publisher, Third World Press. The founder and director of Third World Press is named Haiki R. Madhubuti. The album features Madhubuti reading his own poetry spanning his entire career from the 1960s to the present. Known formerly as Don L. Lee, he was a protege of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American poet to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
Mitchell and Madhubuti have a deep connection which spans a number of years, starting when Mitchell first moved to Chicago, and sought employment at Madhubuti’s Third World Press. She explains: “When moved to Chicago in 1990, I looked up Third World Press in the phone book and went down to this little storefront off of 75th and Cottage Grove. Here it was — a bookstore, a publishing company and a school all squeezed up in the same building. The vibe was exciting and I immediately asked to meet the owner, Haki Madhubuti. I told him I wanted to work there because I believed in what he was doing — he was making a real difference in the community. He looked at… more
CREDITS
released September 29, 2017
Liberation Narrative features Mitchell on flutes, vocalist Ugochi, trumpeter Pharez Whitted, cellist Tomeka Reid, violinist Rene Baker, pianist Miguel de la Cerna, bassist Harrison Bankhead, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara.
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LIBERATION NARRATIVES: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS: 1966-2009
$24.95Not only did/does the poetry of Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) help define and sustain a movement, his verse helped shift the paradigm of contemporary American poetic aesthetics. With its brash urgency and, often, quiet passion; the musicality and homage in Madhubuti’s work continues to resonate. Here in this new offering, Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966 – 2009, Madhubuti’s words, vision and insights are preserved for a new generation of readers.
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NOT OUR PRESIDENT
$22.95“Having spent the past six months—since the stunning election of #45 to the presidency of the U.S.— reading a broad range of analyses concerning “how” and “why,” I am certain about the unparalleled truth-telling of this co-edited volume, NOT OUR PRESIDENT. The veteran writer/publisher Haki Madhubutiand poet/professor Lasana Kazembe have assembled a dazzling array of readings by a multi-racial, multi-generational group who would likely not have appeared between the same two covers under a different set of circumstances. They are professors, poets, politicians, organizers, activists, historians, journalists, rappers, educators, scholars, elders, lefties, nationalists, psychologists, radicals, millennials. They are prolific and award-winning writers…and the sitting mayor of New Orleans.
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FEEDING THE SOUL:BLACK MUSIC BLACK THOUGHT
$25.95An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in standard accounts of the evolution of black music. Topics are cross-disciplinary and include Africa and the African diaspora, American black popular music, black consciousness and art, black message music, and the future of rap. Also included are poems by Nicole Sealey and Sandra Turner-Barnes; personal narratives by gospel music scholar James E. Adams and blues musician Byard Lancaster; and interviews with Katherine DeChavis, Kenny Gamble, Wynton Marsalis, Trudy Pitts, Shirley Scott, Ira Tucker, and McCoy Tyner. Rare archival photographs of musical pioneers complete this collection that leads to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the rich traditions of black music.
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FIRST WORD
$21.95An informative collection of narratives (in their words) from some of the most prominent and important Black scholars, artists. From Kwaku Person-Lynn: The most important thing to remember is that the person I am talking with has a body of knowledge that needs to be preserved for the next generation. We needed to hear our history and culture from our perspective….To know that thousands were listening to the teachings of John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef-ben-Jochannan, Ivan Van Sertima, Frances Cress Welsing, W.E.B. DuBois, Asa Hilliard, Na’im Akbar, and many others was transformative to so many lives.
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BRILLIANT FLAME! AMIRI BARAKA: POEMS, PLAYS, POLITICS FOR THE PEOPLE
$32.95Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka is an intergenerational collection of writing from poets, dramatists, musicians, educators, historians and cultural workers and theorists examining the work and influence of Amiri Baraka.
The dramatist, novelist and poet, Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. Also, he advocated scientific socialism with his revolutionary inclined poems and aimed at creating aesthetic through them. Amiri Baraka’s writing career spans over nearly fifty years and has mostly focused on the subjects of Black Liberation and White Racism. Often recognized as a key founder of the Black Arts Movement, Amiri Baraka was a prolific writer and world-renowned poet. While this book provides its contributors a forum in which to examine his poetic and artistic aesthetics, Brilliant Flame! will more importantly bring to the forefront Baraka’s reach as political activist, historian and cultural visionary.
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Not Our President: New Directions from the Pushed Out, the Others, and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America is a call-to-action for critical thinking and action, and progressive movement-building among everyday people – the vast majority of whom stand outside of Trump’s vision for America. This important volume addresses diverse areas including economics, education, culture, media, labor, religion, and politics. The book includes a foreword by Cornel West and contributions from Molefi K. Asante, Edmund W. Gordon, Maulana Karenga, Henry Giroux, Mitch Landrieu, Greg Carr, Sonia Sanchez, Bill Ayers, Gerald Horne, Elizabeth Warren, Ishmael Reed, Julianne Malveaux, jessica Care moore, Nikky Finney, Herb Boyd, Michael Simanga, Tallib Kweli Greene, and others.
Peter Archanjo
Although one of her obscure picture books, _Aloneness_ is one of my favorites. In this book, Brooks offers a short narrative that tells the child reader about the difference between being alone and being lonely, describing loneliness as a colorless, soundless state that makes one feel completely disconnected from the world. Aloneness, on the other hand, is described as being “delicious,” for one recognizes him/herself in the quietness of the space (8). Aloneness is further described as being with “you […] and pulse and nature keep you company. The little minutes are there, building into hours: the minutes that are the bricks of days and years” (14-5). The illustrations are not notable, but do fit the the prose well.
Peter Archanjo
Mitchell and Madhubuti have a deep connection which spans a number of years, starting when Mitchell first moved to Chicago, and sought employment at Madhubuti’s Third World Press. She explains: “When moved to Chicago in 1990, I looked up Third World Press in the phone book and went down to this little storefront off of 75th and Cottage Grove. Here it was — a bookstore, a publishing company and a school all squeezed up in the same building. The vibe was exciting and I immediately asked to meet the owner, Haki Madhubuti. I told him I wanted to work there because I believed in what he was doing — he was making a real difference in the community.
Amilcar CAbral
Today Plumpp is a professor of English and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has won two Amoco-Silver Circle Awards for excellence in teaching. This award is selected by the graduating seniors. He also won the Carl Sandburg Literary Prize for poetry for his writing of “The Mojo Hands Call, I Must Go” in 1983 (Plumpp). He was an adviser for the television production of The Promised Land. He has written numerous books, including Hornman, Harriet Tubman, Ornate With Smoke, Blues: The Story Always Untold, Half Black, Half Blacker. When Black Rituals was printed in December 1987, Plumpp was writing Superbad and the Hip Jesus, which is about black people and the way they live (Black Rituals 108). Plumpp does poetry workshops in addition to his teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book Steps To Break the Circle is about his life in Clinton, Mississippi in the 1940’s and early 50’s. Plumpp, a $1 million winner in the Illinois Lottery and who taught at University of Illinois at Chicago since 1971, retired with emeritus status in December of 2001. He plans to travel to South Africa and Mississippi to gather research material for current and future writing projects before resuming teaching part-time. Plumpp looks forward to having more time to devote to writing and supporting and nurturing the talents of young African-American writers.
Amilcar Cabral
Spanning a long career, these poems helped define and sustain a movement that added music and brash street language to traditional poetics.
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An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in standard accounts of the evolution of black music. Topics are cross-disciplinary and include Africa and the African diaspora, American black popular music, black consciousness and art, black message music, and the future of rap. Also included are poems by Nicole Sealey and Sandra Turner-Barnes; personal narratives by gospel music scholar James E. Adams and blues musician Byard Lancaster; and interviews with Katherine DeChavis, Kenny Gamble, Wynton Marsalis, Trudy Pitts, Shirley Scott, Ira Tucker, and McCoy Tyner. Rare archival photographs of musical pioneers complete this collection that leads to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the rich traditions of black music.
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