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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Other books by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Our most recommended books

Exodus: Religion, Race and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America by Eddie S Glaude Jr

Beloved by Toni Morrison

In Your Hands by Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) & Carole Boston Weatherford

Black Reconstruction in America by W E B Du Bois

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael López (Illustrator)

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford & Euka Holmes

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The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Exodus: Religion, Race and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
by Eddie S Glaude Jr

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

In Your Hands
by Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) & Carole Boston Weatherford

Black Reconstruction in America
by W E B Du Bois

The Day You Begin
by Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael López (Illustrator)

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford & Euka Holmes