Lawrence Hill Books

When Shriley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her? Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to...

This presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard.Author: Assata ShakurPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: November 01,...

Author: James RobenaltPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: August 04, 2020Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641603119ISBN-13: 9781641603119

This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.Author: Cheikh Anta...

Whatever happened to the regular Black girl? The one who works a 9 to 5 or maybe owns her own business or is completing her master's. Or how about the one who is figuring out how to be a good mom or...

"An eloquent and perceptive series of essays on Black lives in America" -- Kirkus Reviews In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness,...

Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.Author: Cheikh Anta DiopPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 1991Number...

Overnight Code tells the story of Raye Montague, an ambitious little girl from segregated Little Rock who spent a lifetime educating herself, both inside and outside of the classroom, so that she...

Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on...

Crossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from...

Fearful of prison time--or lynching--for violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo...

Author: George JacksonPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 1994Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1556522304ISBN-13: 9781556522307

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black...

The author presents documentary evidence supporting his theory that Egyptian civilization was of Black originAuthor: Cheikh Anta DiopPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: July 01,...

This expos? investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven...

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fianc?. She described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their...

Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black...

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta?ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks?this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man...

"I'm still getting the brakes fixed and when that's done I'm coming to see you, probably in a couple of weeks. As I keep fixing this and that the car will finally become reliable from bumper to...

Previously published: New York: Viking, 1974.Author: Rubin Hurricane CarterPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: April 01, 2011Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever...

Author: Ned SublettePublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2009Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1556529589ISBN-13: 9781556529580

Black Chicago culture is American culture. During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying...

Author: Phyllis CheslerPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date: Sep 04, 2018Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641600365ISBN-13: 9781641600361

A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.Author: Ousmane Semb?nePublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublication Date:...