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All Hope is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation by Sarah Jakes Roberts (hardcover)
All Hope is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation by Sarah Jakes Roberts (hardcover)

Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It’s not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope is an ever-present reality regardless of how dire a situation may seem.

Undoubtedly, there are moments when hope is obscure. That’s because hope has many hiding places. It hides behind heartbreak, camouflages in stress, and disguises itself in grief. It only takes a few disappointments before our expectations are hijacked by doubt and disbelief. Hope is easy to lose and hard to find, but there is never a season when hope is out of reach.

All Hope is Found, by bestselling author of Woman Evolve, Sarah Jakes Roberts, will show:

  • Hope can be broken.
  • Hope can be reframed.
  • Hope can be put to work.
  • Hope can spread.

Inspiring you towards the pursuit of hope with a lens of compassion, Sarah serves as a guide who exposes the hidden hope that awaits you each day. Sarah is not shaking up your life with renewed expectation and the epic pursuit of hope for you to go back to your norm. She wants you to get out of your comfort zone and into your go zone—the space where the abnormal eventually becomes comfortable because you refused to give up.

All Hope is Found:

  • Has reflection questions at the end of each chapter for personal growth and development
  • Is great for small group discussions or book clubs
$17.99
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin (paperback)
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin (paperback)
“In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the U.S., the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in 68 U.S. cities and powerful allies around the world. Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement, and its disastrous unraveling. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power.”–Publisher’s description.

Biographical Note:

Joshua Bloom is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the coeditor of Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy. His articles have been published in American Sociological Review and other venues.

Waldo E. Martin, Jr., is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History and Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar AmericaBrown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents, and The Mind of Frederick Douglass.

$27.99
Book Reading Light
Book Reading Light

Portable, Brightness Adjustable, Clip-on, Lightweight, Eye-caring, Blue Light Filtered, Gooseneck, Rechargeable, Mini Sized, Compact, Long-lasting

$6.00
Bookmark - Manly Man
Bookmark - Manly Man

This bookmark ready to be added to your book collection.

We print on cardstock (2×6 inches) with a glossy, laminate finish for durability.

The image is on ONE side of the bookmark.

Perfect gift for yourself or someone else who is an avid reader that also appreciates art.

Details:

• Made in United States

• Weight: 1.6 oz (45.36 g)

• Dimensions: 2 x 6 in (5.1 x 15.2 cm)

$4.00
Bookmark - Midcentury Modern Plant
Bookmark - Midcentury Modern Plant

This double sided bookmark makes the perfect addition for book lovers and for plant lovers! Also great for book clubs, plant nurseries and bookstores! The bookmark is laminated and made out of heavy cardstock.

Details:


2×6
Double Sided Bookmark
Laminated

Made in United States

$4.00
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All donations made will be used to purchase books for Black-led community-based literacy initiatives. In the spirit of transparency, we will reach out to let you know how your donation will be used!

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Greeting Card - Biggie Birthday
Greeting Card - Biggie Birthday

This is blank inside and ready for your personal message.

Card details:
Dimensions – (A2) 4.25″ x 5.5″
Premium quality card with 14 pt. Smooth matte finish paper, paired with 100% cotton envelope. Card comes in a protective sleeve.

$5.50
Greeting Card - Iconic Black Authors - Audre Lorde
Greeting Card - Iconic Black Authors - Audre Lorde

Inside Message: “Without community, there is no liberation…” Audre Lorde

Card Details:

Dimensions – (A7) 5″ x 7″
Printed on thick, premium quality cover stock, paired with matching envelope. Card comes in a protective sleeve.

By Cody B., Founder of Cody Burt Creative
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
CODETURE by CODY BURT CREATIVE is a Black Pop Culture inspired Lifestyle Brand founded in 2020.

$5.50
Greeting Card - Rest and Refill; Self-Care
Greeting Card - Rest and Refill; Self-Care

This card is blank inside and ready for your personal message.

Card Details:
Dimensions – (A2) 4.25″ x 5.5″
Premium quality card with smooth matte finish paper, paired with a white envelope. Card comes in a protective sleeve.

$5.50
Greeting Card - Zebra Birthday
Greeting Card - Zebra Birthday

Step into the wild with our adorable Zebra Party Animal Greeting Card! Perfect for birthdays and celebrations, this card features a cheerful zebra in festive attire. Printed on high-quality, recycled paper, the blank interior gives you ample space to pen your heartfelt wishes. A must-have for animal lovers and party animals alike!


Card Details:


Dimensions – (A2) 4.25″ x 5.5″
Printed on heavy, bright white cardstock, paired with white envelope. Card comes in a protective sleeve.

By Mariery Young
Panama

$5.50
Mental Health Tracker
Mental Health Tracker

This Mental Health Trigger Tracker Notepad is designed to help you improve your emotional well-being. The simple act of writing down your emotions and triggers on paper can often help us see the causes and solutions more clearly. Rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) this notepad focuses on keeping track of your best days and to moving past the challenging ones by helping you identify and track your triggers, feelings, thoughts and actions.

DETAILS:
Half Letter Size
50 tear away sheets
Measures 5.5x 8.5 inches
Printed on colored (20lb bond) (50lb text) paper
Backed with heavy brown thick chipboard

$14.00
Monster in the Middle: A Novel by Tiphanie Yanique (paperback)
Monster in the Middle: A Novel by Tiphanie Yanique (paperback)

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.


When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He’s a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She’s a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean, looking for lasting love. But are they meant to be? The answer goes back decades—all the way to their parents’ earliest loves.

Vibrant and emotionally riveting, Monster in the Middle moves across decades, from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, to show how one couple’s romance is intrinsically influenced by the family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing. What challenges and traumas must this new couple inherit, what hopes and ambitions will keep them moving forward? Exploring desire and identity, religion and class, passion and obligation, the novel posits that in order to answer the question “who are we meant to be with?” we must first understand who we are and how we came to be.

Original price was: $17.00.Current price is: $8.50.
SCB Black Authors Christmas Ornament
SCB Black Authors Christmas Ornament

Grab our limited edition holiday ornaments featuring some of the most popular books by Black authors. Feature are:

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Get yours today in purple or red! Please note which color you would like when checking out your purchase.

$10.00
Sticker - I Am Her, She Is Me
Sticker - I Am Her, She Is Me

I am Her…She is Me Sticker.

Thick, durable vinyl protects your die cut stickers from scratching, rain & sunlight.

$3.50
Sticker - Me & God Like This
Sticker - Me & God Like This

Sticker says:
God and Me Like This

Sticker is black words with white background.

Thick, durable die cut stickers protects from scratching, rain & sunlight.

$3.50
Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (paperback)
Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (paperback)

The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked “a new birth of freedom” in Lincoln’s America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the “nadir” of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. 


Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a “New Negro” to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age.


The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored “home rule” to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation.
 


An essential tour through one of America’s fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion’s mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.

$20.00
The Nature Journal: A Backyard Journal
The Nature Journal: A Backyard Journal

A charming and nature-filled picture book about a young boy who connects with his busy dad over their love of nature. Perfect for fans of Fatima’s Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq and Hike by Pete Oswald.

Tim has always loved nature. His dad always taught him to explore and adventure through their own backyard. So Tim observed, he collected, and he recorded it all in his nature journal, just like Dad!

But when one day Dad is too busy to look at his findings, Tim takes it upon himself to show Dad all his adventures. And after looking through his dad’s old nature journals, Tim gets sleepy and goes on some dreamy adventures of his own.

An imaginative and heartwarming story about the bond between Tim and his dad, and the beautiful adventures that lie waiting in the world, The Nature Journal is a sweet story of love and nature for the youngest budding explorers.

$18.99
There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me by Alice Walker (hardcover)
There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me by Alice Walker (hardcover)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker invites readers young and old to see the world—and our place in it—through new eyes in this new edition featuring art from Queenbe Monyei.

With beautifully poetic text and joyous illustrations to guide readers through their read, There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me is an ode to the natural world and our place in it. Celebrating the connections and interconnections between self, nature, and creativity, this gently provocative text opens up the world to a reader, and a reader to our world.

From the celebrated author of The Color Purple and other classics comes a beautiful, lyrical picture book for fans of her work of all ages.

Appropriate for ages 4 to 7.

$18.00