Laila Lacy, a native of Philadelphia, graduated from Central High School. She earned a degree from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she studied Psychology and Human Communications and studied at New York’s Bank Street Graduate School of Education. Lacy taught middle school for the New York Board of Education and later served as a […]
An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.” Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades he composed them.
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A number of American Negro families managed to escape the more crippling consequences of poverty and racism. What are the sources of their achievement? What are the barriers they still face as they struggle for equality with the white middle class? And what about those families who still languish in the black ghettos of America?
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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. Angela Davis: An Autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles. Davis describes her journey
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This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Galore Located at 1734 E 63rd Suite 110 St.KCMO 64110 This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered
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This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Galore Located at 1734 E 63rd Suite 110 St.KCMO 64110 This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past
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This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Galore Located at 1734 E 63rd Suite 110 St.KCMO 64110 This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of
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by Glenance Green Shades of Green is an anthological series of thoughts from the mind of one black woman giving voice to many. Illustratively, she uses seven forms of Greek love to weave together a powerful narrative through poetry, prose, and short stories. This brilliant work of art breathes life into reflections and revelations of
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by Rita Williams-Garcia In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since
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by Lawrence Hill (Author) The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET’s first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis (Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men), Oscar and Emmy winner Louis Gossett Jr. (A Raisin in the Sun,
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