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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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Reckoning, The: What Blacks Owe to Each Other
by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments ""A wake-up call to the black leaders and citizens of America."" -Chicago Defender In The Reckoning, Randall Robinson examines the crime and poverty that grips much of urban America and urges black Americans to speak out and reach back to ensure their...
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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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Silent Voices
by Josephine Carson Publisher Comments This is the first book ever published in the United States on the subject of black women. In a tribute to the unheard voices of black women, Josephine Carson explores, in the American South, the lives of black women among whom she lived and traveled and...
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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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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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Ghettonation
by Cora Daniels Publisher Comments From the Introduction: ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw 1: a...
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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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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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Sellout
by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which...
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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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Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem 100 Years,100 Voices
by Julian Bond Publisher Comments Pasted into Bibles, schoolbooks, and hearts, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' written by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson in 1900, has become one of the most beloved songs in the African American community--taught for years in schools, churches...
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American Patriots
by Gail Lumet Buckley Publisher Comments American Patriots is one of the great untold stories in American history. There have been books on individual black soldiers, but this is the first to tell the full story of the black American military experience, starting with the Revolution and...
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Keeping the Faith
by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments <P>In <I>Keeping the Faith,</I> Tavis Smiley, commentator, advocate, and the author of several acclaimed books, brings together a collection of almost one hundred original accounts drawn from the lives of ordinary African Americans.</...
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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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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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Keeping the Faith
by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments An inspiring collection of personal narratives about love, loss, and faith by African Americans from all walks of life, assembled and introduced by the popular author, NPR talk-show host, and “PrimeTime” correspondent Tavis Smiley. Tavis...
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois Publisher Comments "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent...
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