Tag: Martin Luther King

• {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} Jan 1-7, 2018

  

  A Delicate Affair (Decades: A Journey of African American Romance Book 1) by:Lindsay Evans Golden Worth is a proud southerner. But when some “good” Georgia boys threaten to lynch him, he runs north to Washington DC to make music and a new life for himself. He doesn’t count on falling for the untouchable Leonie Harper, […]

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  January 1, 2018

  in Every Issue, New Releases

  @akashicbooks, @authorjdmason, @EricRWalters, @ilyasahShabazz, @jabariasim, @LindaWJackson, @lindsayevans, A Child Introduction to African American History by:Jabari Asim, A Delicate Affair (Decades: A Journey of African American Romance Book 1) by:Lindsay Evans, A Night to Remember: A Novelette by: Barbara Joe Williams, A Sky Full of Stars by:Linda Williams Jacksons, Akashic Books, Betty Before X by:Ilyasah Shabazz, From The Heart of Africa by:Eric Walters, Jabari Asim, Josie and the Brood by:Jayde Brooks, Katia D. Ulysse, Life and Death in Kolofata by:Ellen Einterz, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Mouths Don’t Speak by:Katia D. Ulysse, Rosa Parks

• {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

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  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

• {2015 New Releases} Week 38: Sept 14-20

  

  Fiction My Love At Last (Sag Harbor Village) by:Donna Hill The right one is always worth waiting for… Dr. Olivia Gray’s passion for history is sparked by the mystery surrounding her own birth parents. A research project in Sag Harbor promises to be her most intriguing assignment yet—especially when she meets Connor Lawson. Shared interests […]

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  September 14, 2015

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  @BooksByMLFoster, @davidmaraniss, @gereldst, @SaulWilliams, @SJakesRoberts, @thejemimacode, A Free State: A Novel by:Tom Piazza, Berry Gordy, David Maraniss, Dear Mary: Lessons From the Mother of Jesus for the Modern Mom by:Sarah Jakes, Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca, Martin Luther King, Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, Once in a Great City by:David Maraniss, Reverend C.L. Franklin, The Jemima Code by:Toni Tipton-Martin, The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States by:Ira Berlin, US(a) by:Saul Williams, WoodLawn by:Todd Gerelds