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Product Description: Pryor Lives! How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor By Cecil Brown How did a scraggly standup comic became one of America’s most controversial social satirists? How did Richard Pryor take the traditional stand-up form and used it to become a cultural hero? Cecil Brown, who, after witnessing Mr...read more

Product Description: “If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America...read more

A call for reform about the dwindling representation of African-Americans in today's colleges contends that educators and the media are failing to credit the importance of the black oral tradition and do not test African-American students in accordance with their abilities, in an account that places a particular emphasis on California universities. Original.

Traces the controversial life story of the Black Panther information minister through a series of essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, charting his quiet childhood, prison-marked youth, emergence as a Black Panther leader, seven-year exile, and religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

A novel based on the legend of Stagger Lee recalls the unfortunate chain of events that led St. Louis's first black policeman to arrest Lee 'Stagolee' Shelton, a pimp, for the murder of Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Reprint.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

The author peels back the layers of mythology surrounding 'Stagger Lee' to reveal the true story that inspired multiple songs and cast a long shadow over American music.

Follows George Washington's journey of self-discovery in the 1960s as the African American travels from the United States to Copenhagen, where he meets other Black American expatriates

An account of the author's childhood in a small North Carolina farming village evokes a lost world of rural community experiences while describing a coming-of-age awareness of racism that leads to a painful confrontation. Reprint. LJ. NYT.