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Secret Epidemic, The
by Jacob Levenson  Publisher Comments As we enter the twenty-first century, AIDS in America has become primarily a black disease. African Americans now constitute 50 percent of all new HIV cases, and AIDS is one of the top causes of death in young black men and women. The story of how this...
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Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
by John H. McWhorter Publisher Comments "Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America...
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Everything But the Burden
by Greg Tate Publisher Comments White kids from the 'burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that's giving our nation a racial...
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Strength for Their Journey
by Robert L. MD Johnson Publisher Comments The result of more than twenty years' collaborative work focusing on the heart of successful parenting, the acclaimed five disciplines program developed by Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Paulette Stanford has helped thousands of African-American children and...
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The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America
by Ellis Cose Publisher Comments With an eloquence and compassion reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a frank and realistic examination of the daunting challenges facing black men in twenty-first-century America and offers a way out of the cycle of...
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
by bell hooks Publisher Comments World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose...
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Hard Questions, Heart Answers
by Bernice A. King Publisher Comments Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, is an ordained minister, an attorney, and one of this country's most admired speakers. As this remarkable collection of her sermons and speeches makes clear, she...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
by Kwame Anthony Appiah Publisher Comments In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through 'color-blind' policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In 'Color Conscious', the authors, two eminent moral and...
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Black Leadership
by Manning Marable Publisher Comments The history of the black struggle for civil rights and political and economic equality in America is deeply tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. In this compelling work, Manning Marable examines different models of black...
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The Debt
by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments The national bestseller by the author of Defending the Spirit. In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
by Allen, C. Guelzo Publisher Comments One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many...
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Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
by David Wright Publisher Comments Fire on the Beach brings a previously undiscovered chapter of American history and maritime adventure to light. It tells the story of the U.S. Life-Saving Service (forerunner of today's Coast Guard) and its "surfmen" who, in crews of seven, shouldered...
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Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color
by Iyanla Vanzant Publisher Comments In confronting discrimination, racism, rejection, and alienation, many people of color are turning toward a more spiritual approach to solving the problems that are unique to them. Here is a book of positive meditations that is sure to raise the...
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
by Lawrence, Otis Graham Publisher Comments Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black...
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Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics
by Brenda Dixon Gottschild Publisher Comments The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and...
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Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl
by Jonetta Rose Barras Review "VIVID, PIERCING . . . THIS BOOK HAS GREAT VALUE. . . . [Barras] speaks with the passion and penetrating detail of one who has firsthand experience." -The Washington...
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama
by Diane McWhorter Publisher Comments It tells the story of the city called Bombingham, from the fifties through the sixties. It focuses on the black freedom fighters as well as those who resisted them -- country-club elite, police, vigilantes. Meet the children who braved police dogs and...
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The Slave Trade
by Henry Charles Carey Publisher Comments The subject discussed in the following pages is one of great importance, and especially so to the people of this country. The views presented for consideration differ widely from those generally entertained, both as regards the cause of evil and the mode...
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Miracles Of Mentoring, The
by Thomas W. Dortch Publisher Comments With more than 10,000 members in eighty-two chapters in the United States, the Virgin Islands, and Africa, The 100 Black Men of America is one of the most highly recognized non-profit organizations in the African American community. In this book the 100...
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White Guilt
by Shelby Steele Publisher Comments In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against...
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