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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Father-of-three, motivational speaker and influencer Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B) is on a mission to show the world that Black fatherhood is not only compatible with ambition, but can inspire, nourish and amplify it too. Papa B is using his natural flair for motivational speech to share the joyful and transformative journey of starting a family, including the challenges involved and the opportunities to grow along the way. In this passionate parenting...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London. But he's been struggling with the overwhelming sense that he can't address the injustices he sees raging before him. Then he suffers a devastating loss. As he struggles to find a way forward, memories of his father's death, the weight of refugeehood, and a sense of dread threaten everything. Michael decides to spontaneously pack up and go to America, where he can become someone new....
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Attempting to escape Ends, Bristol, and make a better life for himself and Shona, his grade-school love, Sayon Hughes temporarily deals drugs alongside his cousin until a deadly altercation with a rival drug dealer upends his plans."--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing"--
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and calls for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history, disrupting a legacy of solidarity, and putting an uneven...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are."--
10) Buck breaking
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Buck Breaking is a documentary film that explores the history of sexual exploitation of Black people by the dominant society. The film particularly covers the taboo subject of sexual exploitation of Black males throughout history. The film Buck Breaking draws parallels between ancient forms of this sexual exploitation, to the modern forms of buck breaking being used on Black people today. The film shows the correlation between the historic exploitation...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This memoir from the global gay rights and immigration activist recounts his being forced to flee from a violent mob in his native Nigeria and his experiences navigating the confusing U.S. immigration system as a refugee."--
