Black History - Adult Nonfiction

Jamie Foxx has won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award, laughed with sitting presidents, and partied with the biggest names in hip-hop. But he is most proud of his role as father to two very independent young women, Corinne and Anelise. Jamie might not always know what he’s doing when it comes to raising girls. Luckily, he has a strong example to follow: his beloved late grandmother, Estelle Marie Talley. Foxx shares up close and personal stories...

An autobiography of the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled and edited from articles, essays, speeches, sermons, letters, and other sources, examining his private and public life and describing his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private.

"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...

In 1932, as the Great Depression ravaged the United States, most African Americans lived in poverty, terrorized by white violence and the institutional racism of Jim Crow. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt ascended to the presidency, buoyed by the Black vote, his administration began building the New Deal, and a "Black Brain Trust" of advisers came together. They became known as the Black Cabinet. Led by educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune, the...

A curated collection of essays, photography, memes, recipes, poems and dialogues explores what it means to be Black and alive in today's world from the perspectives of academics, activists and other prominent cultural and social-media influencers.

In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before? In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional....

"This book unfolds the untold history of one of the United States' most notable civil rights crises from the perspective of academic leaders"--

"In 1990, Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. Payne's goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyb7sfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration...