Negroland: A Memoir

At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and Ameri...

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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activis...

9:25 AM

I'm Black and I'm Sober: The Timeless Story Of A Woman's Journey Back To Sanity

This is the first autobiography written by a recovering African American woman. The author discusses the impact of discrimination and the ...

9:03 AM

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irr...

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Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

Recounts the author's experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s, and desc...

9:04 AM

A Parallel Life

Award-winning playwright, author, and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny, and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making ...

10:23 AM

Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir

Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor C...

12:46 PM

An Obama's Journey: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery across Three Cultures

In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, Pre...

9:22 AM

There Was a Country: A Memoir

For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Bi...

9:44 AM

Brothers be like, "George, Ain't That Funkin' Kind of Hard on You?": A Memoir

The long-awaited memoir from one of the greatest bandleaders, hit makers, and most influential pop artists of our time—known for over fort...

8:08 AM

The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive

At nineteen years of age, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white hospital bed at Tennessee Christian Medical Center, feeling hopeless. ...

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Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir

In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TV’s reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes a...

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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngugi wa'Thiong'o

World-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ng˜ug˜ý wa Thiong’o gives us the second volume of his memoirs in th...

7:37 AM

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workab...

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My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy

From one of the greatest rappers of all time, a memoir about a life almost lost and a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop’s Golden...

11:16 AM

Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante

A coming-of-age story about navigating the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family, Buck shares the story of ...

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Memoir of Benjamin Banneker

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poo...

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