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This book has 38 rounds of wide-ranging information about Black history, sports, entertainment, business, education, politics, and many other things with African Americans and Black people worldwide. You can do the 800 multiple-choice trivia by yourself to see how much you know. Or do this activity with others to see how much they know.
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Yolanda is the business owner of Keytrucking LLC out of Kinsey Al. She is a three time self publishing author. Her books are, Weakflesh, My Name Is Ma' Niyah, and Life After Physical Slavery. Yolanda finds time to write to relieve her of stressful life situations when she is out on the road. Yolanda is married to Mr. Kelvin Wilson, and they have been together for quite some time. She is a grandmother of six wonderful grandchildren that she loves dearly....
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An intimate look at Juneteenth, this story is a warm look at a family and a community.
Juneteenth is the smell of brisket filling the air. Juneteenth is the sounds of music, dancing, and cheering ringing from the parade outside. It is love. It is prayer. It is friends and relatives coming together to commemorate freedom, hope for tomorrow, and one another.
This book is an ode to the history of the Black community in the United States, a tribute...
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Cyborg, John Stewart, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Batwing, Vixen, Amazing-Man, and more take center stage to highlight the power of Black excellence across the DC Universe in stories from a variety of comics' finest Black artists and writers! Collects DC Power: A Celebration #1, a gallery of spectacular Black History Month variant covers from 2021 and 2022, and the Dawn of DC's Cyborg #1!
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Discover Incredible Inventions by Black People (Ages 8-12)
#1 New Release in Children's Inventors Books
Young Trailblazers: The Book of Black Inventors and Scientists is a fun new book for children that teaches kids about inventions by Black people that have impacted the world through their ingenuity and trailblazing innovation.
From Black Inventors to Black Scientists. Take your child on an adventure and travel through time to meet famous...
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Explore the Black history of the San Francisco Bay Area through the work of the region's first Black professional photographer.
From 1927 until his death in 1979, Oakland's E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in the Bay Area. His images were printed in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender but not widely published in his home community. A graduate of the American School of Photography in Illinois, Joseph photographed...
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Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all...
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"The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery!" "If you don't like it here, you should go back to Africa." "What about Black-on-Black crime?" "You're just playing the race card." There's a whole arsenal of popular "gotchas" that crop up again and again in discussions about race in America. According to the people who use them, Critical Race Theory is a dangerous threat that promotes racial hatred, and affirmative action is reverse discrimination....
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John Pavlovitz has inspired millions to keep boldly loving both neighbors and strangers throughout the years of Trump's hate-mongering campaign and presidency and continues to be a voice of sanity and urgency when so much is still at stake.
It's a scary time for America, with rights for women and transgender people being rolled back, the truth about Black history and experience being silenced, and unrestricted gun violence on the rise. People who...
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This work is concerned with "the Great Black Man" theory of history. This theory presents history, specifically black history, as a mural of achievements by prominent black people. He devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry, intending these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks. Books such as 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro, Sex...
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Real conversations about racism need to start now
Let's Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do it for us.
Written by two specialists in race relations and parents of two adopted African American sons, the book provides unique insights and practical guidance, richly illustrated with personal examples, anecdotes,...
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This final volume of Christopher Priest's core run on the record-breaking 50th anniversary celebration of Vampirella includes a trio of pivotal and exciting tales of the Daughter of Drakulon. The star of the show here is ""The Long Night,"" concluding his long arc, as Vampirella returns from her interstellar journey pursued by the enigmatic vampire-hunting Shane. Events are set in motion and past secrets revealed that will lead to the blockbuster...
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• "Protecting My Peace" is a transformative guidebook for Black women navigating predominantly white corporate spaces.
• Authored by a celebrated social justice warrior and advocate of equity for Black women with a distinguished background as a college professor; named LinkedIn Top Voice in Education, and co-host of The EdUp Experience podcast.
• The book provides strategies for managing stress, promoting wellness, and healing from trauma.
• Each...
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"The retelling of Solomon Northup's true story is a valuable contribution to black history. Readers of all ages will enjoy . . . this important account." -Charles A. Hicks, former Arkansas state supervisor of education
"Solomon Northup's trials and tribulations are retold in such a way that young-adult readers will be totally captivated by his story." -Children's Literature
Solomon Northup, a family man and hack driver in upstate New York, was kidnapped,...
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise-a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black...
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Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions
Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today
When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro...
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Black Sister Glory is a delicately themed, thought-provoking and brain jostling book aimed at touching the delicate and yet intricate well-beings of the average Black people's existence all across the globe. Its chapters are themed based on the hidden struggles, challenges and everyday experiences of black men and women from hundreds and if not thousands of years before.
The author, through ample research, through re-education, and constant...
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Step into the captivating narrative of "Arrested in Uniform: A Parade Day to Remember." In the heart of San Bernardino, California, an ordinary morning unfolds with the promise of the extraordinary. Two enthusiastic young bandmates, Little Moses Jones and Derrick, are on the brink of an unforgettable adventure – the Black History Parade.Little Moses Jones and Derrick, impeccably attired in their vibrant band uniforms, bear their musical instruments...
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A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records.
Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, the one-man operation Arhoolie Records eventually produced more than four hundred albums during more than forty years in operation, exploring the far corners of American vernacular music-blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, hillbilly, Texas-Mexican...
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Paul S Hickman was born in Tullahassee, Oklahoma - a small rural African-American township. He attended a rural elementary school and graduated from the academic Manual. Training High School in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
During his 26 years of military service, he concurrently completed four college degrees; a post-graduate degree from Vanderbilt University - a graduate degree from Claremont Graduate University - a graduate degree from Golden Gate,...
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