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An essential guide for Black Americans to understanding the criminal justice system, and why it continues to see Black men as targets and as dollar signs.
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young Black male in America-and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. The book provides practical, straightforward advice on how to deal with specific legal situations: the threat of arrest, being, arrested, being in custody,...
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194 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
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English
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A collection of stories about the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories.
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308 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
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50 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Español
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Únete a Mateo, Amaya y su hermanito Santiago, mientras aprenden, ríen y juegan! Hermanito involucra activamente a los lectores jóvenes mediante la combinación de imágenes, rimas, humor y autoestima, mientras se hacen las tareas del hogar. Hermanito anima a los hermanos y padres a trabajar juntos. Creando vínculos importantes que durarán toda la vida.
"Read along as Mateo and Amaya laugh, share, and play with their little brother, Santiago....
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family -- the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles -- against pure evil"--
Martin,...
8) Hands
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135 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather, who is currently in prison. He takes up boxing, figuring if...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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"Get ready for sweet togetherness as you snuggle up with your little one and show them how truly extraordinary and beautiful they are. With bouncing, rhythmic text from New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney and tender, charming illustrations from Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney, this joyful celebration is the perfect way to rejoice and teach your child that they too, can spread their...
11) The unsettled
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311 pages ; 25 cm
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"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama -- about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty...
12) Perish: a novel
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328 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
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"LaToya Watkins's Perish follows four members of the Turner clan: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, mother of two, who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem and all of its trauma behind for good; And Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can't seem to stay pregnant; as they're called home to say...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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Inspired by the rich tradition of African American reunions, a multigenerational story follows the experiences of young Ruby, who helps loved ones prepare the foods they are bringing while trying to think of a signature dish of her own.
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