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-- The sixteen nineteen project2021., Adult, One World Call No: BLK 973 H243s Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur "genius" and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers, and scholars of American history and culture--including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris, and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619--of slavery and resistance to slavery--reach into every part of our contemporary culutre, from voting, housing and healthcare, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories, and the way we worship. Interstitial works of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers. The 1619 Project ultimately sends a very strong message: We must have a clear vision of this history if we are to understand our present dilemmas. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and trying as hard as we can to undersand its powerful influence on our present, an we prepare ourselves for a more just future.
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-- Forty-two is not just a number.2017., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: BLK Bio R662r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An eye-opening look at the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and became an American hero.
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c1991., C. Scribner's Sons ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: REF BLK Literature Region USA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2019., 08:55:48, Tantor Audio Connect to this eAudiobook title. Summary Note: A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood.
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-- Alex Cross must die.2023., Little, Brown and company Call No: NEW MYS Fic Pat Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alex Cross Volume: 29.Summary Note: 'Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,' DC Metro Police dispatch says. 'A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.' Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. And time before another lethal strike runs even shorter. Especially for Detective Cross.
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2013., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Pat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alex Cross seriesSummary Note: Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he is called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C. is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all out frenzy. Alex's investigations are going nowhere, and he is too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him and will stop at nothing until he is dead.
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2009., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Pat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective Alex Cross tells an ancestor's story, in this astonishing account of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence.
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c1999., MysteriousPress.com : Open Road Integrated Media Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Black PI Aaron Gunner of Los Angeles investigates the death of a rapper. The probe leads him into the dangerous world of gangsta rap.
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2023., Adult, Image Entertainment Call No: NEW BLK DVD Fic Angry Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After witnessing her mother's untimely death as a child and her brother's violent murder as a young teen, Vicaria is on a desperate quest to cure death.
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2022., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BLK Mys Fic Mor Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trails. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him.
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2008, c2006., Vintage Books Call No: 973.049 O12a Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2006., Crown Publishers Call No: BLK 973.049 O12a Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats--from terrorism to pandemic--that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a broken political process, and restore to working order a government dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans.--From publisher description.
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1972-76., Doubleday Call No: BLK Bio H657m v. 2v. 1 Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2020., Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Call No: BLK Fic Mos Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd. He overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of these unique individuals.
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2002., Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Mos Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library