Afeni Shakur : Evolution of a Revolutionary
JASMINE GUY
PRICE: $25.00
One of the most visible figures in both the hip-hop and the civil rights movements charts her moral and spiritual development in a stirring and poignant memoir spanning five decades.

Growing Up X
ILYASAH SHABAZZ with Kim McLarin
PRICE: $25.00
"This is a warm and engaging book about how the family of Malcolm X survived and adapted after his assassination in 1965.Llyasah and his five other daughters were raised by a nurturing and strong mother, Betty Shabazz. The picture painted here is a personal one that helps us to see Malcolm X and his family free from the typical media highlight of his so-called violent rhetoric.

W. E. B. Du Bois : The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
DAVID LEVERING LEWIS
PRICE: $35.00
I did not think it was possible for David Lewis to surpass what he had accomplished in the first volume of his Du Bois biography, but he has, In his second volume he confirms the view of many of us who believe that he is the finest American historian plying his craft today.
 

Mandela : The Authorized Biography
ANTHONY SAMPSON
PRICE: $17.00
Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the most admired and beloved man on earth-a leader whose life had been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.

The Black Rose MADAM C. J. WALKER
Author: TANANARIVE DUE
PRICE: $25.95
Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes.

My Life in Search of Africa
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
PRICE: $15.95
Dr. Clarke turns to the problems of historiography and the future agenda of Pan African scholarship. He explains the colonization of our history and the exclusion of African historians from world history, asserting that he is not a 'revisionist' but a 'corrections,'' In Professor Clarke's opinion, Africans can best change the world by changing ourselves first.

Message to the Blackman in America
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
PRICE: $9.95
This mild looking man is the most powerful Blackman in America. He offers a new way of life. Muhammad prompts even his severest critics to agree when he say he attacks traditional reasons the Negro race are weak. Muhammad, a master psychologist, offers identification, definition and belonging to all those who seek it, and in return gets a loyalty, obedience and discipline which staggers the imagination.

Roots
ALEX HALEY
PRICE: $7.99
It begins with a birth in 1750, In an African village: it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley, This magnificent book is his.

Journey to Justice
JOHNNIE L. COCHRAN JR.
PRICE: $26.00
I am an advocate. An advocate for the law as much as an advocate for the individual. For thirty-three years I've been fighting in the trenches, defending the principles of justice outlined in the Constitution. Today, some believe that our system of justice needs changing, not defending. While they sit and scan the morning headlines or watch the nightly news, they feel that the emphasis on the criminal is entirely misplaced.

Chamique: On Family, Focus, and Basketball
CHAMIQUE HOLDSCLAW
PRICE: $18.00
Sometimes it seems like the only thing people know about me is that I bounce this basketball and I'm from Astoria. I'm a simple little rag to riches story. One that has been told about NBA players from the projects for years. That's too simplistic. People who believe that story don't know me as a person. They don't know what drives me, what motivates me, what pushed me

Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?

Don't let the cheeky title, the byline or the picture on the cover fool you: this is a serious book that's not about Charles Barkley. Instead, this work, edited by the Washington Post and ESPN's Wilbon, is a candid collection of 13 interviews by Barkley with prominent Americans like Bill Clinton,...

Will Smith: From Rap Star to Mega Star
MAGGIE MARRON
PRICE: $10.95
Will Smith is getting jiggy. He's handsome. He's sexy. And this Fresh Prince is the undisputed King of the Fourth of July! Since 1988, when he and partner Jazzy Jeff took home a Grammy for thier hit son "Parents Just Don't Understand, Will has been making the climb from prime time to the big time.

Autobiography of Malcolm X
by MALCOLM X  

Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant...

Black Justice in a White World

Seventy-six-year-old former New York Supreme Court Justice Wright?dubbed "Turn 'em Loose Bruce" by critics who thought his bail terms too generous?has written not so much a memoir as a miscellany of recollections. He tells us little about his days in the court system, perhaps because he addressed...
 

Aretha From These Roots

Unlike the soul-baring performances that have drawn listeners to her for four decades, Aretha Franklin is a bit cagey when it comes to discussing her personal life in her autobiography, From These Roots. The famously press-shy Aretha is a free-speaking anecdote spinner and a blunt sharer of opinions...

The Soul of a Butterfly

Few lives have been more zealously recorded in movies, photography and literature than Ali's. So it's fortunate that this book is not so much a memoir as a collection of the supreme athlete's spiritual contemplations. Structured as a series of minichapters on abstract virtues—love, friendship,...
 

Soledad Brother

Jackson gained notoriety shortly before his death in 1970 when his younger brother unsuccessfully tried to free him at gunpoint when Jackson and two others were on trial for killing a guard. Written between 1964 and 1970 while serving time in Soledad Prison for robbery, the letters reveal the...
 

Ready for Revolution

Stokely Carmichael (known as Kwame Ture later in his life) died before his autobiography, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael, could be completed, so much of the text was stitched together from extensive taped sessions by his long-time friend, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell....
 

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Truth's narrative is a powerful rendering of bondage, denial, and loss transcended by genius, family, and a spiritual base. It juxtaposes spirituality with moral turpitude. Truth was a freethinker who lived within a family of wretched circumstances in New York's Ulster County; she was a wife whose...

Here I Stand

No one had more to lose in following his political convictions than Paul Robeson. Here I Stand, originally published in 1958, was Robeson's response to the questions about why his mission--to win the freedom of black people everywhere--incited so much hatred and fear in his country.
 

Malcolm X

The full impact of Malcolm X, his personality and his mission come urgently to life in this definitive anthology of his writings, speeches and manifestos along with writings about him by an international group of African and African American scholars and activists.

The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War with General Wolfe in Canada, voyages to the Arctic with the Phipps expedition of 1772–73,
 

Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography

Gilbert Osofsky, Chicago Daily News
"A powerful autobiographical and revolutionary statement . . . written with precision and a poetic flow of language."

Frederick Douglass

This omnibus volume collects three noted autobiographical works by Douglass (1818-1895), the ex-slave who became one of the nation's most powerful advocates, on the stump and in print, for abolition and racial justice. His first work, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,...
 

Benjamin Banneker

"...written with a clarity and simplicity..." (Times Literary Supplement, 31 May 2002)

My Bondage and My Freedom (Black Rediscovery)

Professor John S. Wright My Bondage and My Freedom is Frederick Douglass's most accomplished rendering of his life on literary and philosophical terms. It is also his most acutely romanticist and 'transcendental autobiography'...can provide yet another chance for us readers to think more closely...

Rosa Parks

Most Americans know her only as the 42-year-old seamstress who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Her quiet act of defiance is often considered the beginning of the modern civil rights movement, but historian Douglas Brinkley reminds us that it was neither the...
 

Part of My Soul Went With Him

This important, topical book is about Winnie and Nelson Mandela, leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. Both have been in and out of prison, and since 1964, Nelson Mandela, head of the banned African National Congress and the man who, many agree, would be Prime Minister were free...