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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry

Throughout history, the concept of Blackness ha…

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and …

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The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

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What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever—a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection …

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least likely to defend its core principles

White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demograph…

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At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.

At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive Preside…

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Just Us: An American Conversation

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American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.

To most Americ…

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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how o…

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Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education ‘reform’ in …

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Forty Acres

What if overcoming the legacy of American slavery meant bringing back that very institution? A young black attorney is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this page-turning …

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