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Step into reading. Step 3 book, Reading on your ownBracks, Lean'tin L.
Summary: "Updated and revised for the first time in over a decade, the second edition of African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence is a comprehensive and inspiring book that celebrates the African American experience, highlighting the extraordinary people and their profound influence on American history. It covers a wide range of topics, including literature, art, music, the civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BRAJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFHarris, Jessica B.
Summary: "Now with a new introduction by award-winning writer and iconic culinary historian Jessica B. Harris, a foreword by chef and television personality Carla Hall, revised recipes and stories, and a fresh new package, A Kwanzaa Keepsake offers proverbs, ceremonies, family projects, inspirational biographies, blessings, and of course, wonderful recipes. Structured around the seven days of Kwanzaa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 HARSummary: "From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality through sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. But, while musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom. It is a message that resounds from the pulpit to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GOSWyeth, Sharon Dennis
Summary: "Learn more about Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States in this Step 3 History Reader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WYESummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMCunningham, Avery
Summary: "An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUNEllis, Tonya Duncan
Summary: Bringing to life the 150-year story of Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas, and the origins of Juneteenth, this moving picture book, with lyrical text and vibrant artwork, is an ode to the struggle, triumph, courage and joy of Black America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELLTipton-Martin, Toni
Summary: "Discover the fascinating, unexplored history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on cocktail and drinking culture through rediscovered recipes, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Jubilee. Toni Tipton-Martin's volume on Black culinary history celebrates the lore and people behind our favorite drinks. With cocktail recipes such as the Jerk-Spiced Bloody Mary, the Absinthe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover the remains of a woman in an abandoned lot in Queens, New York. Follow forensic archaeologist Scott Warnasch and a team of historians and scientists as they investigate this woman' story, revealing a vivid picture of what life was like for free African American people in the North."--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Piskor, Ed
Summary: "Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in 2013, spawning multiple printings, fourteen comic books, and the author's wildly popular YouTube comics channel, Cartoonist Kayfabe (with fellow cartoonist Jim Rugg). Yet the series has never been collected under one cover. Until now. This omnibus collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2023