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    In EVERY REASONABLE DOUBT two top-notch attorneys must team up to defend a high-profile murder case.  The only African-American attorneys at their prestigious law firm, they don’t get along and the sparks start to fly.  Their client is a wealthy woman accused of murdering her womanizing husband.  All she cares about is getting off. When the two attorneys come up against a hot-shot female prosecutor who’s used to crushing her opponents, their relationship changes.  Forced to fight a common enemy, the women close ranks, and in the process, develop a bond that sees them through the uncertainties of trial, the pain of betrayal and pressures neither could have imagined.

"REMOVING THE VEIL"               

By M. Quinn

By M.K. Asante, Jr.

 By Marita Golden

When a police officer pulls over a young man for driving without his headlights on, he mistakes the man's cellphone for a gun and fatally shoots him. The officer descends through a maze of self-recrimination and shame; his wife and children leave him; and he struggles to put his life back together after the life-altering mistake.
 

by James Oliver Horton

and  Lois E. Horton

This companion volume to the four-part PBS series on the history of American slavery--narrated by Morgan Freeman and scheduled to air in February 2005--illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through the stories of the slaves themselves. Features 120 illustrations.

By Alan Huffman

A lost chapter of American history--and its aftermath in the war-torn nation of Liberia today--this is the gripping story of 200 freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony, and where the colonists' repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence.

By Marc Sims

This provocative book is a briefing on "Willie Lynch" for young people who do not fully understand the power of "divide and conquer."  It is also an inspirational book for adults who want a better life for themselves and the African American community.  

By Levi Coffin

Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War.