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Nonfiction:

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Bad Feminist
A Promised Land
Becoming
The Black Unicorn: Poems
Assata: An Autobiography
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
How Exceptional Black Women Lead
Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Difficult Women
At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Between the World and Me
The Black Book (Anniversary) (35th ed.)
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: The History of African American Women and Religion
The Crunk Feminist Collection
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life
It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
The Black History of the White House
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
A Black Women's History of the United States
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Education of the Negro
Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Ageless Vegan: The Secret to Living a Long and Healthy Plant-Based Life
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
Whose Shoes Are You Wearing? 12 Steps to Uncovering the Woman
Miss Jessie's: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch---Naturally
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Real Money Answers for Every Woman: How to Win the Money Game with or Without a Man
Historically African American Leisure Destinations Around Washington, D.C.
The Hollywood Commandments: A Spiritual Guide to Secular Success

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