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Vivian Gordon

Kemet and Other Ancient African Civilizations

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Haki R. Madhubuti

YellowBlack

$15.95

Powerful 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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Beckonings

$7.95

"The aching loveliness of these poems is sometimes close to unbearable. Through the magic of Gwendolyn Brooks' words, we hold in our souls' eye a vivid image of our beauty, we glimpse what we might yet be. An incredible woman, this poet: she would urge us into our ultimate, our transcendent humanity, with her love."

Haki R. Madhubuti

Black Books Bulletin Words Work Volume 1/Number 2 1991

$30.00

Rare Black Books Bulletin Newspaper From 1991. In this Issue: Assata Shakur Speaks, Cuba 1991 Interviewed by Nicole Mitchell. Clarence Thomas: The Best White Man For The Job, What Leonard Jeffries really said!, Michael McGee: Armed and Ready in Milwaukee, Books Behind Bars: Censorship in Prisons.

Black Books Bulletin Words Work Volume 1/Number 2 1991

Haki R. Madhubuti

Black Books Bulletin Volume 5/Number 3 Fall

$45.00

Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1977. In this issue: "Towards Black Science and Technology" --Carl Spight, "Marxist-Leninism and the Black Revolution" --Ronald Walters, "Two Truths Theory" -Vulindlela Wobogo. BBB Interviews: Dr. J. Fletcher Robinson.

Black Books Bulletin Volume 5/Number 3 Fall

Tavis Smiley

The Covenant with Black America

$12.00

Six years' worth of symposiums come together in this rich collection of essays that plot a course for African Americans, explaining how individuals and households can make changes that will immediately improve their circumstances in areas ranging from health and education to crime reduction and financial well-being. Addressing these pressing concerns are contributors Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general; Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of the research think tank PolicyLink; and Cornell West, professor of Religion at Princeton University. Each chapter outlines one key issue and provides a list of resources, suggestions for action, and a checklist for what concerned citizens can do to keep their communities progressing socially, politically, and economically. Though the African American community faces devastating social disparities--in which more than 8 million people live in poverty--this celebration of possibility, hope, and strength will help leaders and citizens keep Black America moving forward.

Carl C. Bell

Sanity of Survival

$27.95

Chicago-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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

$4.00

Brooks writes about Africa and the African Americans.

Margaret Walker

How I Wrote ""Jubilee""

$1.50

Compelling and insightful, this chronicle relays the birth, growth, and development of ""Jubilee,"" one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.

Adelaide L. Sanford

From Enslavement to Belovedness

$19.95

Haki R. Madhubuti

Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka

$32.95

Brilliant 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.

Jonathan Tilove

Along Martin Luther King

$39.95

BUT PAUSE ON KING, begin talking to folks, and the clutter, the noise of the rest of America falls away, and you are transported beyond the sometimes battered facade into a black America that, with astonishing welcome, reveals itself as not only more separate and self-contained than imagined but also more tightly interconnected, powerfully whole. Many black people have moved beyond the neighborhoods through which King runs (though there are now King streets in new black suburbs), but few live beyond the reach of the sounds, sentiments, and stories rooted on King. These are streets united by struggle and circumstance, by history and happenstance. One King street leads to the next and next and back again. For many whites, a street sign that says Martin Luther King tells them they are lost. For many blacks, a street sign that says Martin Luther King tells them they are found.

Marc Lamont Hill

The Classroom and the Cell

$14.95

This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about the many forces impacting their lives. Covering topics such as race, politics, hip-hop culture, education, mass incarceration, and love, their discussions shine a spotlight on some of the most pressing issues in 21st century African American life.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Primer for Blacks

$5.00

Brooks talks to her Black sisters and writes a short statement about the need for Black self-awareness.

Gwendolyn Brooks

To Disembark

$8.00

Unforgettable poetic imagery by one of the greatest female African American poets that captures the viality and complexity of Black life.

Alphonso Pinkney

Lest We Forget: White Hate Crimes

$14.95

White 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.

Philip C. Kolin

White Terror Black Trauma

$19.95

The 61 poems here concentrate on some of the most traumatic events in Black history from colonial to contemporary times, from the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 to Black revolts, Civil War atrocities, incalculable lynchings, the Tulsa massacre, the brave sacrifices of Rosa Parks, the Freedom Riders, the heroes of school desegregation, the murders of Emmet Till, Dr. King, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Eric Garner, and Tyre Nichols. And so many other Black tragedies. Each poem here carries a brief head note identifying the person, place, time, or event that addresses the historical context of the poem. Some poems are written in a his/her recollection of the historical event. Above all, each poem highlights the topography of Black trauma, be that a Civil War fort, a lynching tree, a prison, a school, an island, a ghetto, a river, a national monument, a church, or city street. These resistance poems are chronicles, laments, petitions, heroic recollections about racial attacks on Black people in America.

Haki R. Madhubuti

Taking Bullets

$17.95

Taking Bullets: Black Boys and Men in Twenty-First Century America Fighting Terrorism, Stopping Violence, and Seeking Healing 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.

Asa G. Hilliard

Testing African American Students

$14.95

Educational experts and psychologists expound upon the handling of testing and language for African American students.

Wade W. Nobles

Seeking the Sakhu

$27.95

A complete discussion of the history and principles of African-centered psychology, this work explores the development of the African American mindset in society and reveals the thought processes of the African mind in America.

Chancellor Williams

Rebirth of African Civilization

$17.95

Amidst the current debates concerning multiculturalism and political correctness, this publication moves the discussion beyond the vagueness of ethnicity to the reality of African empowerment.

Allyson Horton

Quick Fire

$12.95

With prose covering such relevant topics as abuse, racism, slavery, and sexism to music, hope,

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live

$8.00

The poems are penned by a South African who observed and absorbed the culture of African Americans. These verses contain his observations of this Black culture and the connections with his native South Africa.

Joyce Ann Joyce

Ijala (Paperback)

$14.95

A landmark critical approach to the study of African American poetry, this seminal work sanctions the view that the voices of the Black Arts Movement are valid areas of scholarly inquiry.

Haki R. Madhubuti

Heartlove

$10.00

These essential meditations on commitment will bring pleasure and reassurance while confirming one's belief in the power of love.

John Henrik Clarke

Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?

$14.95

This collection of speeches covers an array of topics from the contributions of Nile Vally civilizations to the future of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century.

Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?

Haki R. Madhubuti

Don't Cry, Scream

$8.00

In this classic collection of poetry, the reader will find a bold poem for each crucial issue of Black life.

Herb Boyd

By Any Means Necessary

$19.95

Compiled 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.