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Black Power: Strategies for Achieving and Utilizing Power in America    by Michael Townsend
Price: $0.99 USD. 28100 words. Published by Mikaeel Abdul-Malik on April 25, 2010. .

What is power, and why don’t Blacks in America have it? African Americans asked for it in the 50’s. They demanded it in the 60’s. It’s now the 21 century and it still hasn’t been achieved. Yes a few Blacks are on TV, and many have good paying jobs; yet the vast majority of Blacks are as bad off now as they’ve ever been.
Reparation Anxiety    by James Lewis
Price: Free! 4700 words. Published on July 26, 2010. .

Some people believe African Americans should receive reparations for 400 years of unpaid labor and crimes against humanity because of slavery. But it's not that simple. It takes a seventeen-year-old high school kid to show two adults why those 40 acres and a mule may never come.
Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin    by Susan Neiman
Price: $6.99 USD. 96530 words. Published by Quid Pro Books on August 22, 2010. .

Berlin--East and West, day and night--in the 80s before the Wall fell. Through the eyes of a U.S. philosophy student. And Jewish, which makes for moments awkward, poignant, crass, funny, and always lurking. A city was divided, America the occupier, and the cigarettes not named Salem because it sounds too Jewish. The debut memoirs from the author of Moral Clarity, a N.Y. Times "2008 Notable Book."
Repairing the Quilt of Humanity: A Metaphor for Healing and Reparation    by Deborah Howard
Price: $6.99 USD. 26070 words. Published on February 10, 2012. .

The quilt of humanity is in a tattered state, says Deborah Howard, A New York City coach and consultant. We suffer too much as a result of racism, oppression, and the various ways that power and privilege affect us. Drawing on her own cultural background, she employs the Jewish concept of tikkun olam-healing and repairing the world-to present a provocatively insightful way out of our dilemma.
Reparations Now! For Black African Americans And Here's What We Want    by C. Earl Campbell DA 3rd
Price: $3.99 USD. 24890 words. Published on June 28, 2012. .

This eBook offers a 21st century strategy for seeking and achieving reparations for Black African Americans. The legacy and affects of the enslavement of Black Africans and their decedents still negatively impacted Black African Americans when you examine the statistics of their conditions.
Black People Can't Be Republican    by James Lewis
Price: Free! 31370 words. Published on October 15, 2012. .

Black People Can’t Be Republican is a collection of short stories that explores African American viewpoints from various angles—not only about political party affiliations, but other hot-button topics common in the community, such as the N-word, homosexuality, "thick" versus "fat," and sagging pants.
Fo'Ur Seasons-Stories of Poetry    by Isna Tianti
Price: $6.99 USD. 14240 words. Published on November 7, 2012. .

This book is a compilation of poems in form of stories written to speak to the heart and minds of people from various walks of life. Fo'Ur Seasons is play on words "Four and For Your Seasons." It is reflective metaphorically of the changes we endure in life; just like the transitions of winter, spring, summer and fall.
Square Blues    by Shay Youngblood
Price: $3.99 USD. 14880 words. Published on February 1, 2013. .

Square Blues follows, a reparations activist, his mother Odessa, who married a Jewish store owner in the 1940’s and her grand daughter Karma, an art activist, during one summer weekend in the early 1990’s during which each member of his family is challenged to stand up for their beliefs in ways that threaten to tear the family apart.