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• The African-American Heritage Cookbook

  Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances From Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute

  Tillery, Carolyn Quick,

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  From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, this one-of-a-kind narrative cookbook traces the history and heritage of Tuskegee through reminiscences, vintage photographs, poetry, journal entries and more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AfroCentric Style

  a Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture

  Neal, Shirley (Ghostwriter),

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  Illustrated with more than 100 color and black-and-white photos, a rich celebration linking the vibrancy of Black identity and expression with mainstream popular culture from the past to the present. The top memes, movements, and milestone moments…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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 country's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

  the Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

  Tick, Judith,

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  A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Utopians

  Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America

  Robertson, Aaron, 1994-

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  A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia— and sought to transform their lives. How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty?…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blackbirds Singing

  Inspiring Black Women's Speeches From the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century

  Bell, Janet Dewart,

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  An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, and Bell's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

  the Military Career of Charles Young

  Shellum, Brian G.

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  An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attaché, the first African American officer to command a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Women Taught Us

  An Intimate History of Black Feminism

  Jackson, Jenn M.,

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  Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brooklynites

  the Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities That Shaped a Borough

  Kanakamedala, Prithi,

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  Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York Citys most populous borough through their search for social justice. Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nations third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buffalo Soldiers in the West

  a Black Soldiers Anthology

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  An anthology focuses on the careers and accomplishments of black soldiers, the lives they developed for themselves, their relationships to their officers, their specialized roles, and the discrimination they faced from the very whites they were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Combee

  Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War

  Fields-Black, Edda L.,

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  This book offers the first full account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. It details how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. It also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crazy as Hell

  the Best Little Guide to Black History

  Glover, Hoke Smith, III, 1970-

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  By turns hilarious, candid, and heartbreaking, this powerful book takes the straitjacket off Black history. A refreshing, witty take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cooperstown's Back Door

  a History of Negro Leaguers in the Baseball Hall of Fame

  White, Paul D., 1968-

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  For over 60 years, the color barrier excluded Black ballplayers from the major leagues, forcing them to form their own teams and leagues. After Jackie Robinson broke down that barrier, Black players faced another: the barrier to the Hall of Fame. At…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Nobody's Slave

  How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

  Hawkins, Lee,

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  I Am Nobody's Slave tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. This book examines how trauma from enslavement and Jim Crow shaped their outlook on thriving in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jazzmen

  How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

  Tye, Larry,

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  This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Seen

  the Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

  Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966-

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  Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.

• A Matter of Complexion

  the Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt

  Chakkalakal, Tess,

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  A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first Black authors to write for both Black and white readers. In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Prize for These Eyes

  the Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement

  Williams, Juan,

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  In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement. More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stained Glass Window

  a Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958

  Lewis, David Levering, 1936-

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  National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis's own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story Sitting beneath a stained-glass window dedicated to his grandmother…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swans of Harlem (adapted for Young Readers)

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

  Valby, Karen,

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  A full accounting of five incredibly talented Black ballerinas from The Dance Theater of Harlem, founding members among them, that illuminates their hard-fought, historic, and overlooked contributions to the world of classical dance at a time when…Read moreRead more of this annotation