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Our Duty, Their Greatness: Books by + about Our Legends VIEW LIST (30 BOOKS)
Maybe You Never Cry Again
My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
Why We Can't Wait
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Spike
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation
Tina Turner: That's My Life
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
The Awakening of Malcolm X

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#BlackMusicMonth aka The Musical Greats VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)
The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire
Be My Baby: A Memoir
Will
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
Tina Turner: That's My Life
Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good
An Outkast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX
The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
Why Solange Matters
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross
My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire

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Getting Down to Business VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us
Thursday Is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Clever Girl Finance: Ditch Debt, Save Money and Build Real Wealth
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
The E Myth Revisited
Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way You Work
The Art of Getting Sh*t Done
Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid
Keep it 100

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For The Kids VIEW LIST (44 BOOKS)
Together We Ride
Soul Food Sunday
Julián Is a Mermaid
Bedtime Bonnet
LeBron James: The Children's Book: The Boy Who Became King
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic
We Are Family
Monster
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
Where the Wild Things Are
Maya and the Robot
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!
The Giving Tree
Please, Baby, Please

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I've Got A Story To Tell VIEW LIST (53 BOOKS)
My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
Memphis
A Woman of Endurance
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
Black Girls Must Be Magic
Post-Traumatic
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
The Salt Eaters
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
She Memes Well: Essays
Black Cake
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
Spike

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The Classics. VIEW LIST (6 BOOKS)
Monster
The Coldest Winter Ever
Pimp
Flyy Girl
Gettin' Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II
For the Artists VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Soliloquy of an Ice Queen: Poems for the Bitter, Broken Hearted, and Healing
Maya and the Robot
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
An Outkast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South
Astrology for Happiness and Success: From Aries to Pisces, Create the Life You Want--Based on Your Astrological Sign!
Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
The Artist's Way (Anniversary)
Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

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Food For The Soul VIEW LIST (40 BOOKS)
It Started with a List
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
Good Morning, Love
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
Flowers on the Moon
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--And Keep-- Love
Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
Spike
All about Love: New Visions
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
While We Were Dating
Royal Holiday

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Mental Health Awareness 365 VIEW LIST (33 BOOKS)
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--And Keep-- Love
Soliloquy of an Ice Queen: Poems for the Bitter, Broken Hearted, and Healing
All about Love: New Visions
Battle Cry: Waging and Winning the War Within
Cry Like a Man: Fighting for Freedom from Emotional Incarceration
The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace

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Creative Inspiration + Thinking Time VIEW LIST (44 BOOKS)
Creative Quest
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
The Artist's Way (Anniversary)
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us
Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Spike
Will
All about Love: New Visions
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

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