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Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
81 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jackie Ormes sees an opportunity, she takes it. She's a journalist, cartoonist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist -- and she wants to use her artistry to bring joy and hope to Black people everywhere. But in post-World War II America, Black people are still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie has a dilemma: How can her art remain true to her signature Jackie joy, while also staying honest about the inequalities Black people have...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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Language
English
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Dulcé Sloan's first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting her own business selling toys at a Miami flea market, to being a Black kid in a predominately white school, she's always used her masterful wit to challenge the status quo. Her purpose in comedy unfolded while navigating clubs and the set of The Daily Show. Have you ever dated an adult who roller skated, or went out with a mechanic...
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A luminous picture book biography about librarian and storyteller Augusta Baker, the first Black coordinator of children's services at all branches of the New York Public library"--
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Esta es la historia de dos hermanas: Nettie, que ejerce como misionera en África, y Celie, que vive en el Sur de Estados Unidos, casada con un hombre al que odia y abrumada por la vergüenza de haber sido violada por quien cree que es su padre. A lo largo de treinta años ambas mantienen el recuerdo y la esperanza de reencontrarse y vuelcan sus sentimientos en unas cartas conmovedoras. Pero la dramática existencia de Celie cambiará cuando entre...
Author
Series
Emergent strategy volume no. 2
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins. They are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions humans impose on the ocean. With a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.; founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center); architect of the MLK, Jr. legacy; and global leader in movements for civil and human rights as well as peace. Learn about how a girl born in the segregated deep south became a global leader at the forefront of the peace movement and an unforgettable champion of social change....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign her to a white man, one of the thousands who sign up to be contract holders. She knows that there are girls who hope to be more than Maid or Mammy, who whisper about how they will get a white man to sign their freedom, how they will be sweet, but not sweet...
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate the power of Black women who shaped and revolutionized society. Driven by female empowerment, this unique collection of biographies tells stories of the strength, perseverance, and talent of many amazing Black pioneers, including Amanda Gorman, Alice Walker, Warsan Shire, Eartha Kitt, Gloria Hendry, Issa Rae, Pearl Bailey, Shonda Rhimes, and so many more. From musicians, actors, and other creators of color, to visual artists, literary mavens,...
13) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...
Author
Publisher
Redemption Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In these pages you will read the powerful true story of one woman's lifelong search for identity and love. The illegitimate daughter of a Catholic priest and an African- American teen, Christa Armstead struggled against poverty, prejudice, and rejection from her father growing up in inner-city LA. Finding the strength to thrive, Christa Armstead persevered. Christa shares her journey with honesty and vulnerability. It will resonate with anyone who...
Author
Series
Jordan Manning novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman--or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.
After dropping her child off at preschool, Marla Hancock, a stay-at-home mother, disappears. She had recently left her verbally abusive husband in rural Indiana and moved in with her sister, Shelly, who simply can’t believe that her sister would...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
Author
Series
Mead mishaps volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
277 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Brie's never been particularly coordinated...or lucky. Who else would accidentally throw a drink at someone's head only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? And who else would have that stranger fall madly in love with them because it turns out that the drink she threw was a love potion? Yeah, probably just Brie.... Running her cheese business and dealing with a pirate ship full of demons that just moved into town was hard enough. Now...
19) Suddenly we
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Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."--
"Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream-and work-toward a more capacious 'we'. In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--
Smith begins in Sunflower, Alabama, where her grandfather returned after World War I with a hero's record but difficult prospects as a Black man. She consider the life of her father through the...
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