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Blogger Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. For this book she spoke to more than thirty African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom.

Christian Toto describes Hollywood's descent into dreary, dull, leftist groupthink. This book shows the slow-motion disaster infiltrating the industry, and offers a glimmer of hope for a woke-free tomorrow.

Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis shares a first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers.

For a century, US activists have tried to reform the police. Lawyer and organizer Derecka Purnell details what pushed her and a generation of activists to the idea of abolishing the police. She argues that police cannot be reformed and invites readers to envision new systems that address the root causes of violence. Abolition is not solely about getting rid of police, but a commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society and, ideally, eliminate harm in the first place.

After her father died, Lawton began to unravel the truth about her parentage, and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home life to live in Black communities around the globe and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a Black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves.

Bernardine Evaristo shares an account of life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. It's a manifesto for anyone who has ever stood on the margins, and anyone who wants to make their mark on history. It's a manifesto for being unstoppable.

Stacey Abrams is an activist who works for fair voting rights. She's a lawyer, an author, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Experience all the exciting moments in Stacey's life in this middle grade biography.

Despite its claim to be an "inclusive and spacious movement," David Horowitz argues that Black Lives Matter divides Americans by race, class, and party in pursuit of a radical agenda that would impoverish and degrade everyone.

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age--when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen--and explores what it could mean for our collective future.

The quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world's most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Collectively, these essays showcase the roles enslavement and Jim Crow have played in intensifying Black people's inner lives and culture rather than destroying it.