June Jubilee: A Celebration of Black Excellence
June 8, 2024
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Central Library
630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Join us at the Second Annual June Jubilee: A Celebration of Black Excellence! It promises a day of joy and inspiration with speakers, workshops, entertainment, and family activities.
From health & wellness to genealogy & technology to arts & crafts for all ages, there’s something for everyone. The day starts with a water blessing and continues with performances by African drummers, choirs, and dancers.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to celebrate African American culture and contributions in a fun and welcoming atmosphere.
This event is free and open to all, so bring your friends and family along for a day of celebration and learning.
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June Jubilee: Featured Titles for Children
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Ellington Was Not a Street
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I Got the Rhythm
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
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Nikki & Deja
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We March
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A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story
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A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
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All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story From the Great Migration
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All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
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Amanda Gorman
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Basketball Dreams
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Because of You, John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
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Becoming Muhammad Ali: A Novel
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Biddy Mason Speaks Up
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Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
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Black Girls: A Celebration of You!
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Black Is a Rainbow Color
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Black Swans
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Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese: A Story of Food, Family, and Freedom
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Blast Off!
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Bright Brown Baby: A Treasury
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Brown Is Warm, Black Is Bright
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Build a House
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Carved in Ebony: Lessons From the Black Women Who Shape Us
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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
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Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
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Daddy Speaks Love
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Dark Was the Night
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Dear Black child
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Double Bass Blues
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Ellie Engle Saves Herself!
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Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava
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Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
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Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem
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Freewater
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Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
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Grace for President
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Hair Love
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Henry's Freedom Box
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Homegrown
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I Am Every Good Thing
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I Like Myself!
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I'm From
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Ice Breaker: How Mabel Fairbanks Changed Figure Skating
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Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better
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In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
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It All Comes Down to This
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Juneteenth for Mazie
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Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life
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Just Right Stew
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the African American National Anthem
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Like So
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Little Black Lives Matter
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Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
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Love Twelve Miles Long
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Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
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Maya's Song
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Me and Muhammad Ali
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Music Is a Rainbow
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My Red, White, and Blue
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
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Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free
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Red Shoes
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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock
This mid-twentieth-century music sensation has only recently been rediscovered.
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Ruby's Reunion Day Dinner
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Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan's Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal
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Skateboard Party
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Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix
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Soul Food Sunday
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Speak to Me: (and I Will Listen Between the Lines)
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Stacey Abrams: Voting Visionary
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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
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Sweet Dreams, Sarah
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Swim Team
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Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
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The Baby on the Way
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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
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The New Kid
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The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story
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The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
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The Year We Learned To Fly
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We Are Here
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We Could Fly
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We Shall Overcome
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What My Daddy Loves
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When I Wrap My Hair
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Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali
June Jubilee: Featured Titles for Teens
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A Girl's Guide to Love & Magic
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
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All the Things We Never Knew
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And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
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Black Girl Magic: A Poem
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Black Girl You are Atlas
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Black Icons in Herstory
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Bless the Blood
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
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Charming as a Verb
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Cool, Awkward, Black
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Friday I'm in Love
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Harmony and Heartbreak
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Kings of B'more
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Let's Talk About Love
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
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Moonwalking
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Now That I’ve Found You
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Poemhood: Our Black Revival
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Pride
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Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
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Right Where I Left You
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
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The Kindred
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The Voting Booth
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The Wrong Kind of Weird
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
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You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls' Guide to Finding Your Voice
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You Should See Me in a Crown
June Jubilee: Featured Titles for Adults
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Between the World and Me
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
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American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and It’s Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Bloom and Martin present their extensively researched history of the Black Panther Party, including fifty illustrations and photos, and o
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Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
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Black Futures
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Black Women Directors
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Among the many “firsts” in the life of Constance Baker Motley, she was the first Black woman appointed as a federal judge and the first B
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Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories From the Streets of New Orleans to the Table
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
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Dear Black Girls: How to be True to You
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Before then-Illinois State Senator Obama introduced himself to America at the 2004 Democratic National Convention where he had the high p
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019
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HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Laymon explores his early life as an overprotected and overachieving son of an accomplished university professor mother: his own academic
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Learn more about nine women who made significant contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, and their experiences with discrimination by
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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era
Jefferson brings to life the stories of the Southern California leisure destinations that African Americans created and patronized during
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My America Recipes From a Young Black Chef
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Negroland: A Memoir
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Nine Days: The Race To Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
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Parks x Ali
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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes From Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
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Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971
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Saying It Loud: 1966–The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
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Sister Outsider
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Southern Cooking, Global Flavors
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Watts, a California history professor, provides a well-researched and dramatic history of the African American advisors, known as the Bla
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Winner: 2020 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
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Three Seconds of Hell
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Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
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Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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What Have We Here: Portraits of a Life
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter White and Americas Darkest Secret
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
June Jubilee: Featured Poetry Titles
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... After ... : A Collection of Stories
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365.2013: A Poem a Day Series
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365.2015: A Poem a Day Series
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Ashay Speaks: A Collection of Poems
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Bless Your Sweet Bones: A Collection of Poetry
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Born to Waltz: A Collection of Poetry
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Calabama
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
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Can’t No Woman, Woman Like Me: Poems
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C’est LA Vida: The Art of Blossoming
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Death by Comb: A Collection of Poetry
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Endeavor: A Poetry Collection
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ForeverEVOlve: Poems
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Friends My Poems Gave Me: A Collection of Poems and Drawings
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Grandmothers With Voices: A Collection of Poems
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Hidden Moments
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Holla If You Feel Me: A Collection of Poetry
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How To Bear Your Teeth at Strangers
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Hymn: Poems
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In Love and Grace: Poems
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Journeys of a Wombman: Poems
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Loving a Lioness: Poetry in Life, Love & Eros
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Orange Lady: Poems
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P.R.Y.D.E. in print
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Peace in the Pocket: Poems & Builds
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Photopõetry: Poetry and Photography from South Central LA
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Runaway: A Memoir in Verse
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Small Wars, Little Revolutions
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Southern Spiced: A Brown Girl’s Tale: Poems
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Spaces : A Devotional
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Spectral Evidence: Poems
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Supple Verse: & Mind Candy for the Sunken Place
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Switches, Hot Wheel Tracks and Extension Cords: Spoken Blues
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Tell Us, Marcellus: A Collection of Poetry
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Tending My Wild: Poems
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The Book Called: The Album: Selected Poems
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The Distance of Observation: Poems
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The Funky Tube to Nubia: Poems, Non-Poems, and Portals
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The Letting of a Little Water: [poems and polaroids]
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The Orisha Talks: Tales of Lust, Love & Herstorical Memory: A Book of Poetry and Prose
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The Restoration of Orange: Poetic Transformation
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The Weather Report
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This Little Boy
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Through the Soil in My Skin
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Truth Shots & Ida’s Brew: Cocktails and Elixirs
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