The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
By Randall Robinson
Price $12.00
Release Date: 12/01/00
Serial Number: Robinson2
Description
In Randall Robinson's view, racial problems can't be solved until America is willing to face up to the devastating effects of slavery and educate all Americans, black and white, about the history of Africa and its people.
In his recent book, the highly successful ... [  more... ]
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Hip-Hop Fridays Books and Music Package
By package
Price $75.99
Release Date: 12/13/02
Serial Number: HHF1
Description
Nas' God's Son; GZA's Legend Of The Liquid Sword; Russell Simmons' Autobiography, Life And Def; DMX's Autobiography, E.A.R.L.; and Kevin Powell and Ernie Paniccioli's Hip Hop Photo Book, Who Shot Ya? at an over 20% ... [  more... ]
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If you are talking straight lyricists - artists who can paint pictures in your mind with the use of clever wordplay, metaphors and words with double-meanings, it doesn't get any better than Nas and GZA. Both steeped in consciousness, MC battles, commercial success and New ... [  more... ]
E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX
By DMX
Price $21.99
Release Date: 11/01/02
Serial Number: DMX1
Description
His real name is Earl Simmons. As a child he placed higher on tests than his fellow students, and liked to spend mornings with his mother and sisters playing games and making pancakes. But for young Earl - a boy growing up in the streets of Yonkers, NY - that kind of childhood ... [  more... ]
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Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of Hiphop Photography
By Ernie Paniccioli and Kevin Powell
Price $25.95
Release Date: 10/02/02
Serial Number: PaniccioliPowell1
Description
Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli began photographing the graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hip hop, today the most dominant youth culture ... [  more... ]
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Emperor of Ocean Park
By Stephen Carter
Price $24.95
Release Date: 06/02/02
Serial Number: Carter1
Description
The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard - old families who summer on Martha's Vineyard - and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. It tells the story of a complex family with a single, ... [  more... ]
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Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson
By Larry Platt
Price $23.99
Release Date: 11/01/02
Serial Number: platt1
Description
A thorough no-holds barred look at the 76er superstar in the light of United States race relations. There are few figures among America's media-saturated landscape that loom larger than the National Basketball Association's undeniable superstar Allen Iverson. He was ... [  more... ]
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No Disrespect
By Sister Souljah
Price $10.99
Release Date: 11/01/95
Serial Number: souljah1
Description
A powerful, honest and touching account of Black life, womanhood and culture. Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that unmistakable voice to deliver what is at once a ... [  more... ]
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Life And Def
By Russell Simmons
Price $11.99
Release Date: 10/01/01
Serial Number: simmons1
Description
Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. When no one outside of inner-city New York had even heard of hip-hop, Simmons saw the seeds of a global force that would change ... [  more... ]
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I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It
By Charles Barkley
Price $17.95
Release Date: 10/02/02
Serial Number: barkley1
Description
Charles Barkley has never been shy about ex-pressing his opinions. Michael Jordan once said that we all want to say the things that Barkley says, but we don’t dare. But even die-hard followers of the all-time NBA great, the star of TNT’s Inside the NBA and CNN’s TalkBack Live, ... [  more... ]
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The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other
By Randall Robinson
Price $18.99
Release Date: 01/01/02
Serial Number: robinson1
Description
In The Reckoning, Robinson provides insights into prominent Americans' roles in the crime and poverty that grip much of urban America, and rallies black Americans to speak out - and reach back - to ensure that the largely forgotten poor of black America get their chance ... [  more... ]
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A Lawyer's Life
By Johnnie Cochran
Price $19.99
Release Date: 09/09/02
Serial Number: 0002
Description
As Cochran freely concedes, his representation of O.J. Simpson transformed him from a lawyer into a celebrity. In this memoir of his professional life, he tries to put that case in perspective. Although a fierce critic of the racism he sees in the legal system and among the ... [  more... ]
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