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All About Love - New Visions
by bell hooks
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
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by Ralph Ellison
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
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Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
by Jonathan Rieder
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James Mcbride
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Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present
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Brother in the Bush: An African American's Search for Self in East Africa
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Bone Black #1: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
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Soledad Brother : the Prison Letters of George Jackson (94 Edition)
by George Jackson
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The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925
by Wilson Jeremi Moses
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door (African American Life)
by Sam Greenlee
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Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
by William Katz
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage)
by Barack Obama
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My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
by Patricia Raybon
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