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  • Black Toledo

    Edited by Abdul Alkalimat and Rubin Patterson

    Black Toldeo is a documentary history of the African American experience of resettlement focusing on the particular experience of Toledo, Ohio.

  • A Beautiful Ghetto

    by Devin Allen
    Allen asks us to see beyond the the violence and poverty that all too often defines the "ghetto."

  • People Wasn't Made to Burn

    by Joe Allen
    The long-buried story of a Chicagoan's struggle for justice after four of his children perished in a tragic fire.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • 'Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream'

    by Cathy Bergin
    An engaging, wide-ranging, and groundbreaking reexamination of the relationship between African American writers and the communist movement in the US.

  • Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism

    Edited by John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring
    Though far from a 'post-racial' society, the form of race and racism in the U.S. has changed over the years.

  • Deliverance from Slavery

    by Dick Boer
    Deliverance from slavery was a central concern of Biblical verse. Boer aims to reclaim this focus for today's struggles.

  • Malcolm X

    Edited by Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri
    An engaging examination of the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important African-American thinkers of the 20th-century

  • 1989, The Number

    by Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall
    For hip-hop heads 89 was the peak of the Golden Era and the Crack Epidemic.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • My People Are Rising

    by Aaron Dixon
    A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.

  • 1919

    by Eve L. Ewing

    Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

  • Build Yourself a Boat

    by Camonghne Felix
    Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

  • Floodlines

    by Jordan Flaherty
    A People's History of community organizing in New Orleans in the years before and after Katrina.

  • Black Panthers Speak

    Edited by Philip S. Foner
    A sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.

  • Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981

    by Philip S. Foner
    A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.

  • Repair

    by Katherine Franke

    A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.

  • Too Much Midnight

    by Krista Franklin

    Krista Franklin’s work emerges at the intersection of poetics, popular culture, and the dynamic histories of the African Diaspora. Krista lives in Chicago, IL.

  • Can I Kick It?

    by Idris Goodwin

    Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.

  • Class Struggle and the Color Line

    by Paul Heideman
    A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.

  • Long Shot

    by Rory Fanning and Craig Hodges
    Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power.

  • Missing Daddy

    by Mariame Kaba

    A father and daughter's love cannot be broken even when prison bars separate them.

  • Black Queer Hoe

    by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
    A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.