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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.

  • '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.

  • 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.

  • The Whiskey of our Discontent

    Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    by Don Lash
    Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.