Tag: Malcolm X

• {New Releases} Jan 29-Feb 4, 2018

  

  Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.…

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  January 29, 2018

  in Every Issue, New Releases

  #1000blackgirlbooks, @AtriaBooks, @authorMsBev, @AuthorSaundra, @beingmrsjones, @Blakekarrington, @HarperPerennial, @IamCarlWeber, @iamgenesiswoods, @iammarleydias, @IyanlaVanzant, @JasonOverstreet, @JeanneTheoharis, @LLcoolJill, @MorganJerkins, @RebeccaRissman, @VanessaRiley, A More Beautiful and Terrible History by:Jeanne Theoharis, Alice Walker, An African American and Latinx History by:Paul Ortiz, Beneath The Darkest Sky by:Jason Overstreet, Best Laid Plans: A Hood Misfits Novel by:Brick & Storm, Beyonce, Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells, Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Blacksmith’s Song by:Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Booker T. Washington, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colson Whitehead, Edwidge Danticat, Foolish by:Anna Black, Frederick Douglass, Get Over It! by:Iyanla Vanzant, Henry Louis Gates, Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories) by:Rebecca Rissman, If It Ain’t About The Money by:Saundra, Jamaica Kincaid, James Baldwin, Jay Z, Jr., Junot Diaz, Langston Hughes, Love Notes (Equilibrium Book 1) by:Christina C. Jones, Malcolm X, Marley Dias Gets It Done And So Can You! by:Marley Dias, Marlon James, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Michael Jordan, No Slam Dunk by:Cheryl Cooky & Michael A. Messner, Oprah Winfrey, Power, Roxane Gay, Solomon Northup, Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tempest by:Beverly Jenkins, Terry McMillan, The Bittersweet Bride (Advertisements for Love) (Volume 1) by:Vanessa Riley, The Family Business 4 by:Carl Weber w/ La Jill Hunt, Toni Morrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Dean Myers, Zora Neale Hurston

• {New Releases} Week 46 (Nov 6-12)

  

  Bound To The Fire by:Kelley Fanto Deetz In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images are sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represent the untold stories of…

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  November 6, 2017

  New Releases

  50 Speeches That Made The World, @authorjoyavery, @bimbylads, @donnabrazile, @sarahthebarge, @ShaunT, @shauntfitness, A Fierce Heart by:Spring Washam, Albert Einstein, Benazir Bhutto, Bound To The Fire, Bound To The Fire by:Kelley Fanto Deetz, David Ben-Gurion, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Fidel Castro, Hacks by:Donna Brazile, Kelley Fanto Deetz, Langston Hughes, Langston’s Salvation by:Wallace D. Best, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Nikita Khrushchev, Osama Bin Laden, Spring Washam, T is For Transformation by:Shaun T, Vladimir Lenin