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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race - by Margot Lee Shetterly - £10.99

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture. Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathemati ... more

Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X & James Baldwin Shaped a Nation - by Anna Malaika Tubbs - £9.99

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history... Eye-opening, engrossing’ Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika ... more

Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain - by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips - £12.99

The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants. In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of C ... more

Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History - by Vashti Harrison - £7.99

Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're exceptional. They changed the world. Did you know that the father of African cinema was originally a bricklayer? Or that Vogue's editor-at-large read his first Vogue magazine in his local library? ... more

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - by Les Payne and Tamara Payne - £12.99

**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award Finalist, LA Times Book Prize A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelli ... more

Mother Country: Britain - by Stephen Bourne - £14.99

Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London an ... more

100 Great Black Britons - by Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne - £9.99

A long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over many centuries, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE. Patrick Vernon's landmark 100 G ... more

It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time - by Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata - £10.99

‘We need this book’ SIMON REEVE ‘Illuminating’ FINANCIAL TIMES Why is Africa often perceived as a single country? What role did African soldiers play in the Second World War? Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Afri ... more

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present - by Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippins - £9.99

Meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in this celebration of inspirational achievement — a collection of stories about changemakers to encourage, inspire and empower the next generation of changemakers. Jamia Wilson has carefully c ... more

Mandela: His Essential Life - by Peter Hain - £9.99

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Ha ... more

Civil Rights for Beginners - by Paul Von Blum, illustrated by Frank Reynoso - £12.99

A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Fre ... more

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History - by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson - £16.99

A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to t ... more

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - by Maya Angelou - £9.99

Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, jo ... more

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts - by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez - £20.00

"Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery"(Angela Y. Davis) Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the pas ... more

Notes of a Native Son - by James Baldwin - £9.99

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher fath ... more

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