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2) Dirty south
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College is a big adjustment—but not if you're Kenya Posey. Even at a Southern school far from her Jersey turf, she's the one the girls envy and the boys want. Kenya's the star of a hot singing/dancing troupe, her high-school BFF Lark is on campus—could things get any better?
For Lark, the answer is yes. While she's flunking socially, life is one big episode of Everybody Loves Kenya—and Lark barely gets a walk-on role. Kenya's...
For Lark, the answer is yes. While she's flunking socially, life is one big episode of Everybody Loves Kenya—and Lark barely gets a walk-on role. Kenya's...
5) True story
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Just as Seven McKnight moves on from ex-boyfriend Josiah Whitaker, he steps back into her life, and Seven must decide between her old feelings and her new relationship with Zaire St. James.
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Six young African American men from Akron, Ohio enter college where they have to navigate persistent racial provocations. Alumni of the unique Akron, Ohio mentoring program, Alchemy, they share their trials and triumphs with honesty, astonishing vulnerability, and raw emotion.
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Fab life novels volume 4
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During her freshman year at Spelman College, Sunday Tolliver handles new friends, a hit record, video shoots, award shows, and school work while her boyfriend Sam must resist temptation in the Big Apple.
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This comprehensive history of African American fraternities and sororities celebrates the spirit of Black Excellence in higher education that has produced American leaders in politics, sports, arts, and culture such as Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, and Toni Morrison, and is sure to be a treasured resource for generations to come.
America's Black fraternities and sororities are a unique and...
America's Black fraternities and sororities are a unique and...
9) Meridian
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"Meridian Hill, a dedicated and courageous young activist in the 1960s, works to create peace and understanding through her civil rights work, touching the lives of all those she meets even when her health begins to deteriorate. With the old rules of Southern society collapsing around her, her coworkers quitting and moving to comfortable homes and lives, and others turning to more violent means of achieving change, Meridian fights a lonely battle...
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Sahara, a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who feels like an all-around failure, finds hope, answers, and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates--the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously disappearing.
11) Consequences
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In this sequel to Choices, school's back in and there's a lot of unfinished business to handle. Lena prepares for her wedding day. Denise can't shake the feelings she developed for Lena. Cooley let Misha walk away, but realized she couldn't give up that easily. Carmen found her perfect mate in Nic, but will insecurities ruin her future love?
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Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive—even prickly—personality, and one of the few black girls at an exclusive women's liberal arts college near Philadelphia. By contrast, Genna was a quiet, self-effacing teenager from a privileged upper-class home, self-consciously struggling to
...13) Stuck on you
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Lazarus Mitchell's life has been a constant battle: he put his dreams on hold to fulfill his wife's, and once she achieved her career dreams she ended their marriage. He enrolls in college and hires a tutor. Kiana Solé Jordan loves chemistry, and tutoring-- and her attraction to Lazarus makes her want to take a chance on something not so safe. He has a lot of baggage to let go of, and her family is warning her off this new relationship. -- adapted...
14) Get over it
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Hoping to take her career to the next level after a year of college, hip-hop performer Sunday Tolliver is tested by a campus hazing scandal that pits her friends against a powerful sorority while she is also dealing with her jealous cousin's drama and her own torn feelings for fellow star DeShawn and ex-boyfriend Sam.
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"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
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Are black men naturally violent? Do they define manhood in the same way as their counterparts across lines of race? Are black Greek-letter fraternities among the most dangerous student organizations on American college and university campuses? Can their often-dangerous initiation processes be stopped or even modified and, if not, what should be done about them? In this second edition of Black Haze, Ricky L. Jones takes on these questions and more....
17) Choices
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Four friends--Lena, who is engaged to a basketball superstar; Denise, who is hoping that she will be the first in her family to graduate college; Freedom, who lives up to her name; and Carmen, who needs to work on her self-esteem--lean on each other during their days at Freedom University. Original.
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Acclaimed memoirist and poet asha bandele writes a startlingly honest work of fiction. Miriam Rivers tries to give her daughter Aya a good life, but also keeps her at an emotional distance. One tragic night while Aya is taking a jog, she is mistaken for a robber and shot. With her daughter fighting for her life, Miriam must open up and let herself face the feelings of the past and the present.
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An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Women focuses on the oldest Black Greek-letter sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, established in 1908. In this innovative interdisciplinary analysis of AKA, Deborah...
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Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
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