Resultaten gefilterd op "Lawrence Hill Books"

All the Dreams We've Dreamed

Rus Bradburd

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the Margins Book Award Winner Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the icon... Lees meer

Simeon's Story

Simeon Wright, Herb Boyd

• Paperback | Engels
• Skipping Stones Multicultural & International Awareness Books Honor Award No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than... Lees meer

Precolonial Black Africa

Cheikh Anta Diop

• Paperback | Engels
• This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black... Lees meer

Divine Rebels

Deena Guzder

• Paperback | Engels
• Divine Rebels chronicles the extraordinary efforts of American Christian activists who agitate for a world free of racism, patriarchy, bigotry, retrib... Lees meer

Citizen Lane

Mark Lane

• Hardcover | Engels
• Freedom Rider, friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dick Gregory's vice-presidential running mate, legal defense at Wounded Knee, survivor of the Jonestown Ma... Lees meer

The World That Made New Orleans

Ned Sublette

• Paperback | Engels
• Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune . Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for th... Lees meer

You Next

Antonio Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels
• "A stirring work . . . images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intel... Lees meer

The Brown Bullet

Bill Poehler

• Hardcover | Engels
• The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the ... Lees meer

Freeing David McCallum

Ken Klonsky

• Paperback | Engels
• For ten years before Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully con... Lees meer

Freedom's Journey

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Black America
• Some were slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters; some were soldiers who fought for the freedom of their ... Lees meer

First Kill Your Family

Peter H Eichstaedt

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied... Lees meer

The Politics of Cocaine

William L Marcy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Drawing on declassified documents and extensive firsthand research, The Politics of Cocaine takes a hard look at the role the United States played in ... Lees meer

Lay This Body Down

Gregory A Freeman

• Paperback | Engels
• The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves--and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams... Lees meer

Black Girl Irl

Gail Hamilton Azodo

• Paperback | Engels
• Ebony Get Lit! March 2024 Pick Whatever happened to the regular Black girl? The one who works a nine-to-five or maybe owns her own business or is comp... Lees meer

Party Music

Rickey Vincent

• Paperback | Engels
• Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just h... Lees meer

Consuming the Congo

Peter H Eichstaedt

• Paperback | Engels
• Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the worl... Lees meer

Rescuing Regina

Josephe Marie Flynn

• Paperback | Engels
• Named a Wisconsin Writers Award Honorable Mention What is it like to be a young mother threatened with deportation to the country whose government has... Lees meer

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

Nikki Giovanni

• Paperback | Engels
• Insightful and fun, this collection of poetry captures the essence of the African American experience for young people. Lees meer

Assata

Assata Shakur

• Paperback | Engels
• On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and f... Lees meer

With Child

Phyllis Chesler

• Paperback | Engels
• This diary of acclaimed psychologist and radical feminist icon Phyllis Chesler was a pioneering work when it was first published in 1979. A look into ... Lees meer

The Seminarian

Patrick Parr

• Paperback | Engels
• 2018 and 2019 Washington State Book Award Finalist (Biography/Memoir) - Excerpted in The Atlantic and Politico - TIME Magazine - One of 6 Books to Rea... Lees meer

Civilization or Barbarism

Cheikh Anta Diop

• Paperback | Engels
• Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective. Lees meer

Trauma, Tresses, and Truth

Lyzette Wanzer

• Paperback | Engels
• A Library Journal Best Social Science title of 2022 Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From grammar a... Lees meer

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Jeffrey Haas

• Paperback | Engels
• Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, in... Lees meer