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The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
by Joshua Bennett
What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question--and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness--in this striking, original work. In The People Can Fly, Dr. Joshua Bennett explores the complex position of black prodigies in a society that has, all too often, defined blackness as absence, as lack of intellect or inner life. Through this hybrid work of memoir and cultural history, Dr. Bennett shares how his own academic journey reflected the ebb and flow of being seen as both promising and as a problem.
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Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
by Howard Bryant
A path-breaking work of biography of two American giants, Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson, whose lives would forever be altered by the Cold War and would explosively intersect before its most notorious weapon: the House Un-American Activities Committee -- from one of the best sports and culture writers working today. Kings and Pawns is the untold story of Robinson and Robeson as they came to represent two poles of a people pitted against itself by forces that demanded loyalty without equality in return. In a time of great division, with America in the midst of a new era of retrenchment and Black athletes again chilled into silence advocating for civil rights, the story of these two titans reverberates today within and beyond Black America.
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Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love
by James Lawson Jr.
The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world. Spanning 95 years, Nonviolent is a riveting historical narrative from a central figure in global liberation and a testament to compelling a nation to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all.
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Cleopatra
by Saara El-Arifi
"YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children. How willfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived."
Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.
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The Quarter Queen
by Kayla Hardy
A Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth-century New Orleans to save her mother--and the soul of the city itself--in this lush debut novel inspired by the life of Marie Laveau. Told in alternating timelines, The Quarter Queen is an intimate yet epic portrait of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand one another, and a captivating exploration of racism, family, and womanhood.
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Love by the Book
by Jessica George
New York Times bestselling author Jessica George is back with a moving story about two women at a crossroads in their thirties. Love by the Book is a heartwarming, funny, and soulful exploration of the restorative nature of female friendship and the life-changing power of platonic love.
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