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Shivaji: The Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShrimanyogi is a biographical work on the life and the achievements of the great Maratha king, Chatrapathi Shivaji. Shivaji has been a legendary figure in the Indian history.Shivaji was one of the major influences on the revival of nationalism and Hindu culture during a period when centuries of rule by Muslim invaders had induced a condition of apathy and indifference in the people... -
![Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson]()
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids.I couldn't go to their schools.I couldn't drink from their water fountains.There were so many things I couldn't do. In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their civil rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak...Categorized as:
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![That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes]()
That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's poems about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice is now a picture book.To fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun, To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.... Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus...Categorized as:
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![Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain]()
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 21 ratings#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire... -
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![A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib]()
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the RainAt the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to...Categorized as:
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![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard]()
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author. In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. At age 15, she was freed, and by age 20, she was married and had her first child...Categorized as:
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![March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin]()
March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore he became a respected Congressman, John Lewis was clubbed, gassed, arrested over 40 times, and nearly killed by angry mobs and state police, all while nonviolently protesting racial discrimination. He marched side-by-side with Martin Luther King as the youngest leader of the Civil Rights Movement that would change a nation forever... -
![King: A Life by Jonathan Eig]()
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files...Categorized as:
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![Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson]()
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony"Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside...Categorized as:
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![Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga]()
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa...Categorized as:
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![Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature...Categorized as:
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![The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole]()
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists... -
![Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis]()
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFeaturing a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years... -
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![Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges]()
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn November 14, 1960, a tiny six-year-old black child, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. From where she sat in the office, Ruby Bridges could see parents marching through the halls and taking their children out of classrooms...Categorized as:
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![Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Paul Kennedy]()
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel, Paul Kennedy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation... -
![Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford]()
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community.News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years... -
![The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez, Bahni Turpin]()
The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez, Bahni Turpin
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alphabet book that presents key names, moments, and places in Black history with simple text lyrically written by poet Rio Cortez. This is an opportunity for children to learn their ABCs to the sound of words beyond apple, boy, and cat, and an opportunity for young thinkers to prepare for big ideas...Categorized as:
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![There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey]()
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes...Categorized as:
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![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman]()
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity... -
![Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente]()
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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![She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton]()
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsChelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted.Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what’s right, even when they have to fight to be heard...Categorized as:
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![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
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![Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes]()
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans... -
![The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson]()
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD • A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party .Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement...Categorized as:
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![Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good]()
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge...Categorized as:
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![Invaincus by Kwame Alexander]()
Invaincus by Kwame Alexander
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSee below for English description.C'est pour les inoubliables. Ceux qui n'ont pas peur. Ceux qui sont invaincus.Dans ce livre à la fois touchant et puissant, l'auteur � succ�s Kwame Alexander et l'illustrateur Kadir Nelson, récipiendaire de la m�daille Caldecott, nous livrent une lettre d'amour mettant � l'honneur l'Am�rique noire...Categorized as:
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![Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman]()
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession...Categorized as:
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![Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch]()
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou’re British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.So why do people keep asking where you’re from?We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present...Categorized as:
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