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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 68 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
    Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - by Glory Edim

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781409189282 | ISBN 10: 1409189287

    Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives – but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book. ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
    An Autobiography - by Angela Y. Davis

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241994573 | ISBN 10: 0241994578

    A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis.  Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully toda ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party by Stephen Shames (photography) and Ericka Huggins (text)
    Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party - by Stephen Shames (photography) and Ericka Huggins (text)

    £35.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788841757 | ISBN 10: 1788841751

    “A new photobook recalls the crucial but often overlooked role played by women in the Black Panther party” — The Guardian  “… I guarantee this book will give you a new respect for a generation of women militants.” — Socialist Worke ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X & James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
    Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X & James Baldwin Shaped a Nation - by Anna Malaika Tubbs

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008405359 | ISBN 10: 0008405352

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  ‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history... Eye-opening, engrossing’ Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half   In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
    Why Solange Matters - by Stephanie Phillips

    £9.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571368983 | ISBN 10: 0571368980

    The dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name.   A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, CLASH BOOK OF THE YEAR  The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
    Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement - by Tarana Burke

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472292315 | ISBN 10: 1472292316

    From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she broug ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
    This is Your Time - by Ruby Bridges

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911590590 | ISBN 10: 1911590596

    On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. Escorted by federal marshals past angry segregationist protesters, young Ruby attended William Frantz Elementary and e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Becoming by Michelle Obama
    Becoming - by Michelle Obama

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241982976 | ISBN 10: 0241982979

    Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, an intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First La ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
    Bessie Smith - by Jackie Kay

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571362929 | ISBN 10: 0571362923

    Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.  Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.   Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother
    Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine - by Emily Bernard

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527851 | ISBN 10: 0857527851

    "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. Race is the story of my life, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ain
    Ain't I A Woman? - by Sojourner Truth

    £5.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241472361 | ISBN 10: 0241472369

    'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'   A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fou ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Black Women
    A Black Women's History of the United States - by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

    £22.50   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780807033555 | ISBN 10: 0807033553

    A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are — and have always been — instrumental in shaping our country.  In centering Black women’s stories, two award-wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
    A Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations - by Toni Morrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529110883 | ISBN 10: 1529110882

    A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.  ‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
    Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim - by Leah Vernon

    £19.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780807012628 | ISBN 10: 0807012629

    A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.   Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
    Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments - by Saidiya Hartman

    £17.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163231 | ISBN 10: 1788163230

    At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. Their defeats were bitter, but their triumphs beca ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown
    The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me - by Keah Brown

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781982100544 | ISBN 10: 1982100540

    From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.  Keah Brown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
    Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - by Brittney Cooper

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781250112880 | ISBN 10: 1250112885

    So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday by Paolo Parisi
    Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday - by Paolo Parisi

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781642730210 | ISBN 10: 1642730211

    Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michelle Obama: Quotes to Live By by Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama: Quotes to Live By - by Michelle Obama

    £5.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787392908 | ISBN 10: 1787392902

    Michelle Obama: Quotes to Live By is a life-affirming collection of over 170 quotes from one of the world's most admired and respected public figures. As a student, she excelled; as a lawyer, she rose through the ranks; as a mother, she inspired an ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
    We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - by Samantha Irby

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571349814 | ISBN 10: 0571349811

    If you haven’t already heard of Samantha Irby... where have you been?   In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage t ... more

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  • Cover image of book When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
    When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786893055 | ISBN 10: 1786893053

    “Twelve. That was the year that I learned that being Black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.”   The powerful memoir of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter which explores how the movement was born.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom by Maya Angelou
    Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom - by Maya Angelou

    £6.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784882464 | ISBN 10: 1784882461

    Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom is a collection of some of her best and most empowering quotes. This is the ultimate keepsake for fans of Maya Angelou’s beautiful poetry, as well as for anyone looking for a bit of in-the-moment inspiration to have in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
    Zami: A New Spelling of my Name - by Audre Lorde

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241351086 | ISBN 10: 0241351081

    If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.   A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond (Editor)
    Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. - by Beverly Bond (Editor)

    £20.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781501157929 | ISBN 10: 1501157922

    From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.  Fueled b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds
    Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy - by Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473671003 | ISBN 10: 1473671000

    The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist. "Coretta is more relevant today than ever... a female who takes responsibility for creating something bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, & Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
    This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, & Feminist in (White) America - by Morgan Jerkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780062666154 | ISBN 10: 0062666150

    Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vogue, Nylon, The Millions, Refinery29, the Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bitch Media, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Paperback Paris.  From one of the fie ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Beautiful Work In Progress by Mirna Valerio
    A Beautiful Work In Progress - by Mirna Valerio

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781503943391 | ISBN 10: 1503943399

    Runners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for “Did Not Quit.”   Valerio has tied on her ru ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates
    The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers - by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x

    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.   The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pocket Michelle Wisdom: Wise and Inspirational Words from Michelle Obama by Michelle Obama
    Pocket Michelle Wisdom: Wise and Inspirational Words from Michelle Obama - by Michelle Obama

    £5.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784881313 | ISBN 10: 1784881317

    Pocket Michelle Obama Wisdom has assembled the very best quotes from the world's favourite First Lady.   Covering all of her favourite topics - from her love of french fries to her feelings on fashion and feminism - this handy little book finally ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light
    What Happened, Miss Simone? - by Alan Light

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748

    Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.   What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
    Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race - by Margot Lee Shetterly

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780008201326 | ISBN 10: 0008201323

    The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller  Now a major motion picture. Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.  Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathemati ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
    Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou - by Maya Angelou

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349006147 | ISBN 10: 0349006148

    For the first time, poignant and witty aphorisms from the works of Maya Angelou all in one place, gorgeously presented alongside powerful photographs taken throughout her life, in a beautiful gift hardback. A lovely tribute to one of the most inspira ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer by Kristina DuRocher
    Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer - by Kristina DuRocher

    £24.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138786882 | ISBN 10: 1138786888

    Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden
    Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown - by Lezley McSpadden

    £20.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781942872528 | ISBN 10: 1942872526

    The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden — the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014 — sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent histor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
    Negroland: A Memoir - by Margo Jefferson

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783783021 | ISBN 10: 1783783028

    The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
    The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl - by Issa Rae

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781476749075 | ISBN 10: 1476749078

    In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Billie Holiday by John Szwed
    Billie Holiday - by John Szwed

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592624 | ISBN 10: 0099592622

    When eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record Riffin the Scotch and Your Mothers Son-in-Law, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-c ... more

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  • Cover image of book In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
    In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court - by Brittney Griner

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780062309358 | ISBN 10: 0062309358

    Hailed by ESPN as the world s most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her stre ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)
    This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)

    £21.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781438454382 | ISBN 10: 1438454384

    Bronze Medalist 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies CategoryFINALIST 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies Category  Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women by Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage (Editors)
    Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women - by Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage (Editors)

    £24.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781469620916 | ISBN 10: 146962091x

    Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daisy Turner
    Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga - by Jane C. Beck

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780252080791 | ISBN 10: 0252080793

    The oral history of an American family from Africa to the twentieth century. A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an hei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding
    Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering - by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358794 | ISBN 10: 0822358794

    An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Hardings spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candombl.  Remn ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
    The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - by Jeanne Theoharis

    £16.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780807033326 | ISBN 10: 0807033324

    The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.   This revised edition includes a new introduction by the author, who reflec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
    Assata: An Autobiography - by Assata Shakur

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783601783 | ISBN 10: 1783601787

    In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted terrorist list.   Assata Shakur's trial and conviction for the ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Parallel Life by Bonnie Greer
    A Parallel Life - by Bonnie Greer

    £14.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909807624 | ISBN 10: 1909807621

    Standing on the corner of Michigan Avenue, in the middle of the biggest blizzard of the decade and at the height of the rush hour, I yelled into the driving snow and howling Arctic wind: OK! After playing the role of good daughter, great sister, best ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby
    Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson - by Barbara Ransby

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205855 | ISBN 10: 0300205856

    Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the Biography/Autobiography category, sponored by JM Northern Media LLC.   Won an Honorable Mention for the 2013 New England Book Festival given by the JM Northern Media ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
    Mom and Me and Mom - by Maya Angelou

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844089154 | ISBN 10: 1844089150

    For the first time, Maya Angelou - one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets - shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.  'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was no ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330533447 | ISBN 10: 0330533444

    The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever... Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without h ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
    A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx - by Elaine Showalter

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844080809 | ISBN 10: 1844080803

    Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Still Brave: Legendary Black Women on Race and Gender by Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall
    Still Brave: Legendary Black Women on Race and Gender - by Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall

    £20.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616110 | ISBN 10: 155861611x

    Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker from the pioneers of black womens studies comes Still Brave, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today.   Including Alice Walkers ground ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pilgrim State by Jacqueline Walker
    Pilgrim State - by Jacqueline Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340960806 | ISBN 10: 0340960809

    Pilgrim State is a stunning memoir which tells the story of Dorothy Walker - equal parts beautiful, headstrong, brave and tragic. Her life is lovingly recreated by her daughter Jacqueline in homage to the remarkable woman she was. In the haunt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Michelle Obama: A Biography by Liza Mundy
    Michelle Obama: A Biography - by Liza Mundy

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847397508 | ISBN 10: 1847397506

    She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"?   In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marria ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
    Black Feminist Thought - by Patricia Hill Collins

    £19.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780415964722 | ISBN 10: 0415964725

    In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
    Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence - by Rebecca Walker

    £15.00   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780285638204 | ISBN 10: 0285638203

    After a lifetime of ambivalence and uncertainty about the role of motherhood in a woman's life, Rebecca Walker, hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most influential American leaders under forty, decided to have a baby.   Raised by her mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Women for Beginners by S. Pearl Sharp
    Black Women for Beginners - by S. Pearl Sharp

    £11.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389201 | ISBN 10: 193438920x

    There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she's already been there. Her presence is everywhere.  Black Women for Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from an ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
    A Piece of Cake: A Memoir - by Cupcake Brown

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780553818178 | ISBN 10: 0553818171

    From beloved daughter to abused foster child to crack addict, this is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. Following her mothers death, Cupcake was just eleven years old when she entered the child welfare system. Moved f ... more

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  • Cover image of book With Billie by Julia Blackburn
    With Billie - by Julia Blackburn

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099483656 | ISBN 10: 0099483653

    Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women
    Women's Slave Narratives - by Annie L Burton et al

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780486445557 | ISBN 10: 0486445550

    The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Book by Whoopi Goldberg
    Book - by Whoopi Goldberg

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780751526332 | ISBN 10: 0751526339

    "Here's where I'm supposed to say all kinds of hip, Whoopi-esque stuff to get you to buy the book... when I tell you in my own inimitable way, how uproarious and provocative this book is, how OUT THERE and cutting edge... Or, I could say things like, ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
    A Song Flung Up to Heaven - by Maya Angelou

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781844085064 | ISBN 10: 1844085066

    It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - by Harriet Jacobs

    £8.95   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780393976373 | ISBN 10: 0393976378

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. It tells the story of Harriet Jacobs's early life as a slave in North Carolina; her fugitive years in New York, Boston, and Rochester ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer
    Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 - by Kimberly Springer

    £18.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780822334934 | ISBN 10: 0822334933

    The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, womens, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis
    Angela Davis: An Autobiography - by Angela Davis

    £13.99   paperback   (1989) - ISBN 13: 9780717806676 | ISBN 10: 0717806677

    Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, with a 1988 Introduction by the author. 416 pages. ... more

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  • Cover image of book All God
    All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9781844085057 | ISBN 10: 1844085058

    Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
    The Heart of a Woman - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1986) - ISBN 13: 9781844085040 | ISBN 10: 184408504x

    Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
    Gather Together in My Name - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9781844085026 | ISBN 10: 1844085023

    Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Singin
    Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9781844085033 | ISBN 10: 1844085031

    Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, j ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780860685111 | ISBN 10: 086068511x

    Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, jo ... more

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