The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices o…
Want to Read $ 4.99"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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1. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
By: Michael Eric Dyson
4.31
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care a… read more
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"Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public."-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
"The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change."-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
2. Black Theology and Black Power
By: James H. Cone
4.36
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Newly updated and expanded, this classic work is a product of the Civil Rights and Black Power move… read more
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"If whites do not get off the backs of blacks, they must expect that blacks will literally throw them off by whatever means are at their disposal. This is the meaning of Black Power. Depending on the …"-James H. Cone, Black Theology and Black Power
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3. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition
By: Yvonne Patricia Chireau
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure--the African American tradition of h… read more
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4. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
5. High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
By: Jessica B. Harris
4.15
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Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foo… read more
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6. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
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Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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7. Finding Margaret Fuller
By: Allison Pataki
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more
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8. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By: Anna Malaika Tubbs
4.09
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates … read more
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"Bertis, Louise, and Alberta, grew from children, to teenagers, to young women at a time when the birth of a nation characterized black men as scoundrels intent on brutalizing white women. When the pi…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
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9. The American Queen
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4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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10. Perish
By: LaToya Watkins
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, explori… read more
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"Everybody wants to say bye, show the dying that they here and they somehow living on in spite of everything."-LaToya Watkins, Perish
"Sometimes we don't get to understand things. People. We just got to try to be better than the things that spit us out. I don't know why my momma like she is, but I love her and got to keep on with it…"-LaToya Watkins, Perish
11. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
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From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
12. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
By: ReShonda Tate
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more
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13. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
By: Timothy Egan
4.12
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more
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4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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15. All the Fighting Parts
By: Hannah V. Sawyerr
4.44
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16. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
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4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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17. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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18. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more
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19. God Is a Black Woman
By: Christena Cleveland
4.32
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more
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20. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
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21. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"..we find some of the deepest traces of Islam and other traditional African religions in places like Sapelo Island, home of the Gullah Geechee people. Islam's strong roots persisted here in ways that…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
22. You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and a… read more
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23. The Lost Van Gogh
By: Jonathan Santlofer
3.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpiece… read more
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24. Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
By: Lama Rod Owens
4.41
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Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberatio… read more
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"The body tells the truth regardless of if we speak its language or not. ... Often my practice has focused on trying to meet my body where it is, instead of constantly trying to get it to meet me wher…"-Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
25. Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology
By: Pamela R. Lightsey
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessi… read more
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"How may it be possible to live in harmony in the midst of distinctions among humanity?"-Pamela R. Lightsey, Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology
26. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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27. Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
By: Candice Marie Benbow
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and op… read more
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"Many women I met during my time in the academy were very good to me. But in the wake of everything I lost, I wanted to reclaim parts of me with some semblance of wholeness before everything was burne…"-Candice Marie Benbow, Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
28. Good Women
By: Halle Hill
3.96
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across th… read more
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29. The Rhythm of Time
By: Questlove
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the Academy Award–winning, Grammy-winning, and bestselling author Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson a… read more
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30. Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves
By: Chanequa Walker-Barnes
4.40
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
A seven-week guide to help you shift your behaviors and create lifelong habits to care for your who… read more
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31. Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement
By: Annemarie Mingo
4.71
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that ma… read more
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