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- Taleeb Starkes
In Chicago a.k.a “Chiraq," the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore’s 2015 ended as...

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- Reginald F. Lewis
When six-year-old Reginald Lewis overheard his grandparents discussing employment discrimination against African Americans, he asked, “Why should white...

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- Jules Archer
Traces the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four...

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- Tom Burrell
They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the...

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- Frederick Douglass
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick...

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- Booker T. Washington
Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for...

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- Michelle Alexander
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first...

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- W. E. B. Du Bois
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois...

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- Ayana Byrd
Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have...

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- Dick Gregory
Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians...