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  • Thelonious Monk

    The Life and Times of an American Original

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja MonetFirst published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    A Continuous Struggle

    The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre

    by Garrett Felber ...
    Narrated by Jason Felisbret ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 49 min

    The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.A Continuous Struggle is a political biography of one of the most important—if since forgotten—revolutionary figures of the twentieth century in the United States. Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a Black Puerto Rican from East Harlem who became a politicized ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D.G. Kelley ...
    Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • A Continuous Struggle

    The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre

    by Garrett Felber ...
    The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.A Continuous Struggle is a political biography of one of the most important revolutionary figures of the twentieth century in the United States. Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a Black Puerto Rican from East Harlem who became a politicized prisoner and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Freedom Dreams

    The Black Radical Imagination

    by Robin D.G. Kelley ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja MonetFirst published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the Black radical tradition. Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Making a Killing

    Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement in pursuit of racial justice and freedom for allRekia Boyd, Timothy Thomas, Jonathan Sanders, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Neely, and Michael Brown were casualties of war. Whether we call it a war on crime, a war on militants, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Race Rebels

    Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    From notable historian and author of Freedom Dreams, the untold history of the Black working class resistances throughout the 20th century.Many Black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Crossroads

    I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History

    by Koni Benson ...
    Series series Kairos
    Drawn by South African political cartoonists the Trantraal brothers and Ashley Marais, Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle for land, housing, water, education, and safety in Cape Town over half a century. Drawing on over sixty life narratives, it tells the story of women who built and defended Crossroads, the only ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Thelonious Monk

    The Life and Times of an American Original

    by Robin DG Kelley ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 30 min

    Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

    by Cedric J. Robinson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Damien Sojoyner ...
    In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD