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Banned & Challenged

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto By George M. Johnson Cover Image
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image
Chocolate Me! By Taye Diggs, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image

Beloved Fiction

Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
Invisible Man (Vintage International) By Ralph Ellison Cover Image
Beloved (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Novel (Easy Rawlins Mystery #5) By Walter Mosley Cover Image
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Tayari Jones Cover Image
The Street By Ann Petry, Tayari Jones (Introduction by) Cover Image

Anti-Racism and Allyship

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein Cover Image
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness By Austin Channing Brown Cover Image
How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image

Black Feminisms and Queer Thought

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Cover Image
Thick: And Other Essays By Tressie McMillan Cottom Cover Image
Assata: An Autobiography By Assata Shakur, Angela Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor) Cover Image
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals By Saidiya Hartman Cover Image
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by) Cover Image

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Signed Books

What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel (Signed Copy)
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Signed Copy)
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] (Signed Copy)
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Signed Copy)
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People (Signed Copy)
Sho (Signed Copy)
Glory: A Novel (Signed Copy)
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance (Signed Copy)
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party (Signed Copy)
Tanya Holland's California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West [A Cookbook] (Signed Copy)

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