The Book Company: New Products - Black History Month

Cooking Up Change (Grandma's Recipes from a Year in Black History)

Fri, 30 May 2025 07:22:05 +0000

In Cooking Up Change—the eagerly awaited sequel to teen chef and food justice advocate Michael Platt’s Recipes for Change—Platt journeys through a year in Black history with a little help from his beloved grandmother as he retells 12 important historic events and shares a rec..
Price: $18.99

On the Courthouse Lawn (Revised Edition)

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:52:15 +0000

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, t..
Price: $20.00

HBCU Made (A Celebration of the Black College Experience)

Mon, 01 May 2023 17:51:51 +0000

In this joyous collection of essays about historically Black colleges and universities, alumni both famous and up-and-coming write testimonials about the schools and experiences that shaped their lives and made them who they are today.

With a distinguished and diverse ..
Price: $29.00

Supreme Sirens (Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Music)

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 06:03:13 +0000

A stunning photography book that explores the power, rebellion, and resilience held within the voices of trailblazing Black female musicians.

From entertainment journalist and fashion stylist Marcellas Reynolds, the author of Supreme Models and Supreme Actr..
Price: $60.00

Beyond Black and White (From Civil Rights to Barack Obama)

Sun, 15 May 2022 22:05:03 +0000

Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time

Many in the United States, including Barack Obama, have called for a “post-racial” politics; yet race still divides the country politically, economically, and socially. I..
Price: $24.95

100 African Americans Who Shaped American History

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:23:40 +0000

Learn all about the fascinating lives and tremendous impact of 100 extraordinary Black Americans with this fact-filled biography collection for kids. From Benjamin Banneker to Harriet Tubman, Duke Ellington to Rosa Parks, Malcolm X to John Lewis and many more, readers will be introduced to arti..
Price: $10.99

What Is Juneteenth? - 9780593384695

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:36:14 +0000

Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States.

On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union solder and listened as he read the most remarkable words they..
Price: $7.99

Every Day Is for the Thief (Fiction)

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:39:08 +0000

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle | NPR | The Root | The Telegraph | The Globe and Mail

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALI..
Price: $16.00

The Star Side of Bird Hill (A Novel)

Mon, 31 May 2021 12:44:06 +0000

Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in Naomi Jackson’s stunning debut novel

This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal famil..
Price: $22.00

Go Tell It on the Mountain - 9780375701870

Sat, 29 May 2021 13:09:54 +0000

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americ..
Price: $16.00