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Series
Black girls must die exhausted volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tabitha Walker is a black woman with a plan to "have it all." At 33 years old, the checklist for the life of her dreams is well underway. Education? Check. Good job? Check. Down payment for a nice house? Check. Dating marriage material? Check, check, and check. With a coveted position as a local news reporter, a "paper-perfect" boyfriend, and even a standing Saturday morning appointment with a reliable hairstylist, everything seems to be falling into...
Author
Series
Black girls must die exhausted volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Throwing herself into her work to maintain her position as the news station's weekend anchor, new mother Tabitha Walker, when her husband issues her an ultimatum, turns to her friends for support as she comes to terms with her new life and faces her biggest challenge yet--choosing herself"--
Author
Series
Black girls must die exhausted volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Discovering she's pregnant--after she was told she may not be able to have biological children--Tabitha throws herself headfirst into the world of "single mothers by choice." When an unexpected turn of events draws Marc--her on and off-again ex-boyfriend--back into her world with surprising demands, and the situation at work begins to threaten her livelihood and her identity, Tabitha must make some tough decisions. It takes a village to raise a child,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated. Born from an affair and an unplanned pregnancy, Morial was raised largely by her father and his family, and grew up with no knowledge of her mother. Here she tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment-- and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Now an award-winning journalist and co-host of...
Author
Language
English
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Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the riveting life of pioneering journalist Ethel Payne, known as The First Lady of the Black Press. For decades, Ethel Lois Payne has been hidden in the shadows of history. Now, Morris skillfully illuminates the life of this ambitious, influential, and groundbreaking woman, from her childhood growing up in South Chicago to her career as a journalist and network news commentator, reporting...
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : portraits.
Language
English
Description
Belva Davis covered many of the most explosive stories of the last half-century, including the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, the Moscone/Milk murders, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and Osama bin Laden's activities in Africa. Along the way, she encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons: Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Nancy Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Fidel Castro, and others. Her absorbing memoir traces the trajectory...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s and early 1900s, mobs of white people killed thousands of African Americans in the United States. These killings were called lynchings. Mobs lynched Black people for minor or perceived insults. Often the victims had not committed a crime. But they did not receive a fair trial. White people used lynchings to control and oppress Black people. Black journalist Ida Wells was one of the first to investigate lynchings. She researched...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother-- Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole-- and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards. Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed. While she wondered about her biological parents,...
15) Fear's justice
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book, part-manifesto, part-memoir, Elaine Welteroth -- the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue -- explores what it means to come into your own, on your own terms. Welteroth climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, he unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success from her own journey, whether navigating her way as the unstoppable...
17) Abbott
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
While investigating police brutality and corruption In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott Elena Abbott uncovers a series of grisly crimes, the work of supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. Hugo Award-nominated novelist Saladin Ahmed and artist Sami Kivelä present one woman's search for the truth that destroyed her family amidst...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
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