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HABA HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2025

 'Tis the season to celebrate with meaningful gifts for every person on your list. Explore our holiday gift guide and invest in our community by supporting alumni-owned, Black-owned, and local businesses this holiday season.
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tgin Butter Cream Daily Moisturizer, $15.99 

Chris-Tia Donaldson AB 00, JD '03

Enriched with shea butter, cocoa butter, and Vitamin E, tgin Butter Cream Daily Moisturizer will give your strands the moisture they need and crave for soft, shiny, manageable hair.

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Mented Cosmetics Lip Gloss, $15 

KJ Miller AB '08, MBA '14 and Amanda E. Johnson MBA '14

This lipgloss is shiny and smooth without overdoing it, and provides just the right amount of color to add some pep to your step - and your lips! All lip glosses are vegan, cruelty free, paraben-free, and proudly made in the USA.​

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The UOMA Beauty Double Take Contour Stick features a double ended contour and highlight stick. It’s a power couple that is sure to make you do a double take. ​

HABA Members enjoy 50% off all items on the site for a limited time.

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Ourside Of Our Own Eau De Parfum, $196

Keta Burke-Williams MBA '21

A symphony of scents. It starts with juicy berries and fig, then meanders to a soft, green floral intertwined with a hint of musk, before warm amber and frankincense join the chorus.

HABA Members enjoy 15% off all items on the site through January 1, 2026.

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Wherever you are, Unbothered meets you there. This adaptogenic blend of functional mushrooms and herbs helps you stay balanced, calm, and focused—no matter what your day brings. ​

HABA Members enjoy 40% off or any 5 items for $100.

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Dr. Bronner's Organic, Fair Trade Gift Basket includes whole kernel coconut oil, citrus pure-castile liquid soap, peppermint and lavender pure-castile liquid soap, peppermint all-one toothpaste, baby unscented pure-castile bar soap, baby unscented magic balm, and all 4 scents of organic lip balm. The gift basket is made in partnership with PINARTE, a women's cooperative based in Nicaragua.

HABA members receive 20% off a single purchase, valid through January 15, 2026.

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Sun-Man Toy, $4.75 

Yla Eason MBA '77

For longtime fans and for a new generation of kids who love action and adventure, it's time to discover the thrilling action and adventures of Sun-Man!

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Welcome to the flashcard deck and videos that launch you to the next level in your career by helping you know what to say in every professional situation. As a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, Gorick Ng shares how to speak with clarity and confidence across 4 categories with this 52-card starter deck.

HABA Members receive a 35% discount off of any deck.

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Bestselling Georgies earrings with 18k Gold, Diamonds, and Labradorite drops. 100% of profit is donated to the charity of the purchaser's choice.

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The Serengeti Blend is ideal for dark roast lovers who enjoy a rich, full-bodied cup without bitterness. Named after the iconic Serengeti grasslands of East Africa, this bold African coffee delivers molasses and chocolate coffee notes with a slight tangy sweetness, making it a dream pairing for milk or cream. Beautifully packaged and sustainably sourced, Serengeti is the best dark roast coffee option for gifting friends, family, or anyone who appreciates high-quality, ethically made coffee

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This award-winning dark rum brings together four Caribbean traditions—8-year-old Barbadian, Dominican, and Trinidadian column still rums and a Jamaican pot still selection.

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Spelman ‘25 Homecoming Tee, $50 

Jordan Taylor C'22 (Spelman College, 2022 HABA Intern)

This one is for the alt, creative girlies that love Spelman down.   

 

Sizes XS - XL

HABA members enjoy 15% off for a limited time.

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The shirt includes sharp detailing such as a tailored collar, button-down front, and a stylish chest pocket accented with a navy blue trim. The contrasting sleeve cuffs add an extra pop of color, making it a fun yet fashionable choice for casual outings, cultural events, or family gatherings.

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STRWMN, $1,000 

Derek Fordjour EDM '02

This 16 1/2 × 12 1/2 in | 41.9 × 31.8 cm giclee print focuses on a nattily dressed marionette. Fordjour's exercises in color, texture, and materiality alternately celebrate Black life in the United States and lament inequalities of the past and present. STRWMN is also the Spring 2022 Juxtapoz magazine cover.

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blue iverson, $40.00

Miela Foster AB '22

This 11 × 14 inches print, with white borders and glossy material, is perfect for those who love eye-catching art.  This piece is open edition and comes with a bookmark crafted from recycled original works.

HABA Members enjoy 15% off all items on the site for a limited time.

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This holiday season, honor your roots and inspire future generations. Black Ancestries helps people of African descent uncover, celebrate and preserve their family history through professional genealogy research. From uncovering lost family lines to creating heirloom-quality family trees and history books, each project offers a timeless gift, the chance to connect the past with the present.

 

HABA members save up to $500 through Dec. 31, 2025.

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Aaron Craig Mitchell is a trusted executive coach with more than 20 years of experience helping leaders secure 6- and 7-figure roles across industries. Aaron Craig Mitchell Enterprises helps people and organizations redefine their prosperity through Coaching (Executive, Leadership and Career), Advising and Keynote Speaking.

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Traaple

Selase Kove-Seyram NIE '22

Traaple is Africa's travel marketplace; a one-stop app to discover, compare and book unique trips, tours and activities across the continent, by trusted local operators.

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Pan-African Solutions Consulting is a strategic planning consulting firm that assists Black Diaspora-focused nonprofit organizations, philanthropic donors, and public sector agencies with sustainable cooperative economic development in Africa, the Caribbean, and urban communities in the United States.

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Why is it so expensive to be a woman in America? From a rising star in economics comes the first comprehensive look at the costs women face and why the bill runs especially high for women of color—with a foreword by Chelsea Clinton.

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This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.

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Race Rules is an innovative, practical manual for white people of the unwritten rules relating to race, explaining the unvarnished truth about racist and offensive white behaviors. It offers a unique lens from Fatimah Gilliam, a light-skinned Black woman, and is informed by the revealing things white people say when they don't realize she's Black.

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The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation's racial regime.

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A call to action to step away from climate hopelessness and toward a joyful future, offering real answers for the crucial question: What would the future look like if we charged ahead with all the solutions to actually address the climate crisis?

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Prosperity still eludes many regions of the world – but capital markets hold the potential to drive economic development and lift millions out of poverty. Aimed at thinkers and doers seeking to create opportunities for all to prosper, All Hands on Deck explains how to build world-class capital markets that help nations, companies, and individuals create lasting wealth.

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In this powerful work of scholarship and storytelling, Atuahene shows how predatory governance invites complicity from well-meaning people, eviscerates communities, and widens the racial wealth gap. Using a multigenerational narrative, Atuahene tells a riveting tale about racist policies, how they take root, why they flourish, and who profits.

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On January 1, 2009 the Andersons embarked on a year-long public pledge to “buy black.” Drawing on economic research and social history as well as her personal story, Maggie Anderson shows why the black economy continues to suffer and issues a call to action to all of us to do our part to reverse this trend.

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A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel.

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The Black Box: Writing the Race, $30

Henry Louis Gates Jr. AM '91

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history.

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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, $26

Clayton M. Christensen MBA '79, DBA '92; Efosa Ojomo MBA '15; and Karen Dillon

The Prosperity Paradox identifies the limits of common economic development models, which tend to be top-down efforts, and offers a new framework for economic growth based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation.

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In Hope and Healing, former Morehouse College president John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. looks to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to examine what it takes not only to survive as a relevant institution of higher education, but to thrive. 

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Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, $12.99

Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, David A. Thomas

This collection explores how race shapes work and leadership experiences—and how organizations can build truly inclusive environments

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The inspiring story of evangelicals in Cincinnati struggling to bridge racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation

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The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it.

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Teacher By Teacher traces the remarkable journey of the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives.

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Lovely One: A Memoir, $35

Ketanji Brown Jackson AB '92, JD '96

In this inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.

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From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly.

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Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance is a vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker – daughter of Madam C. J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance – written by her journalist great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles.

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From CNN’s Abby Phillip, a triumphant new look at Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns of the 1980s and how they changed Black political power

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The Look, $49.99

Michelle Obama JD '88 

Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, The Look is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama’s style evolution, in her own words for the first time.

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A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.

HABA Members enjoy 30% off  until December 31, 2025 and 20% off after December 31, 2025.

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New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers's assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history.

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In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the audacious idea to create a state within the Union governed by and for Black people -- and the racism, politics, and greed that thwarted him.  

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American Negra: A Memoir, $23.19

Natasha Alford AB '08

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.

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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

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The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage

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The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system.

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Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as “inaccessible,” “irrelevant,” or “intimidating.”    

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Happy Land, $29

Dolen Perkins-Valdez AB '95

A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

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A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, and performative do-gooding.

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The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a divided city.

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In C.O.U.R.A.G.E., Christopher O. H. Williams reveals how to harness innate courage in everyday life to make a lasting impact and live authentically, without regret.   

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The Unspoken Rules is your essential guide to unlocking the secrets of career advancement that aren't taught in school. As a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, Gorick Ng shares the wisdom gleaned from over 500 interviews with professionals across industries and job types. 

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A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading OB/GYN and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health.

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A practical and widely used investment guide, this book teaches a structured approach to value analysis, risk management, and stock selection for superior long-term returns.

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A straight-talking anthology for entrepreneurs, Business Success Secrets delivers raw, honest insight from business leaders on what it takes to succeed.

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A commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, the Juneteenth holiday has been observed in the Black community for over 150 years. In The Juneteenth Cookbook, Alliah L. Agostini, author of the popular children’s book The Juneteenth Story—which won the 2022 Black Kid Lit Award for Best Historical title—brings the tradition to your home through historically accurate recipes and educational family activities.

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Girls on the Rise, $19.99

Amanda Gorman AB '20

In this galvanizing original poem by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, girls and girlhood are celebrated in their many forms, all beautiful, not for how they look but for how they look into the face of fear.

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Salsa Magic, $18.99

Letisha Marrero

A magic debut middle-grade novel filled with powerful abuelas, santeria, and orishas set in New York City.

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