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Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery

Based in Chicago, Black woman-owned bookstore and gallery space, Semicolon Bookstore and Gallery is committed to nurturing the connection between literature, art, and the pursuit of knowledge; while also using the power of words to better our community. ​

Wanna Really Be Antiracist? Read These.. VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Hell of a Book
Long Division
Milk Blood Heat
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
Last Summer on State Street
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
All about Love: New Visions
Deacon King Kong
What Is National Black Literacy Day?!? VIEW LIST (60 BOOKS)
The Black Book
Parable of the Sower
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
No Longer at Ease
Things Fall Apart
Copper Sun
Akata Woman
The Icarus Girl
Boy, Snow, Bird
American Street
Tar Baby
Song of Solomon
The Bluest Eye

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Politcin' VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Black Skin, White Masks
The Nickel Boys
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
The Mis-Education of the Negro
For The Shawtys VIEW LIST (23 BOOKS)
Claudia and the New Girl: A Graphic Novel (the Baby-Sitters Club #9): Volume 9
Becoming Muhammad Ali
I Promise
Class Act
Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants
Epoca: The River of Sand
Ada Twist, Scientist
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Betty Before X
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
The King of Kindergarten
The Crossover
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-Up

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Hood Classics VIEW LIST (6 BOOKS)
The Coldest Winter Ever
Midnight: A Gangster Love Storyvolume 1
Flyy Girl
Milk in My Coffee
Disappearing Acts
Revolutionary Baby VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Antiracist Baby Board Book
Woke Baby
A is for Activist
If You're Going to a March
Let the Children March
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
What Can a Citizen Do? (Kids Story Books, Cute Children's Books, Kids Picture Books, Citizenship Books for Kids)
The Undefeated
March: Book One
Say Her Name
Which Books Are Banned? And Why? The Beginning of the End VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Kite Runner
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
The Hate U Give
The Color Purple
GEO Conference Titles VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
Commando
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change
Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System
Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Laziness Does Not Exist
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
JAMA Network Equity Action Team x Semicolon VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma
The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Piano Lesson
Between the World and Me
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Becoming
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Braiding Sweetgrass
The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Vanishing Half
Run: Book One
Jesus and the Disinherited
Semicolon x Planned Parenthood VIEW LIST (34 BOOKS)
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Yolk
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having--Or Being Denied--An Abortion
Take My Hand
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Sower
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Milk Blood Heat
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Meaty: Essays

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