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.
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.
Mented Cosmetics Lip Gloss, $15
KJ Miller 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.​
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. ​
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HABA Members enjoy 50% off all items on the site for a limited time.
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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. ​
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HABA Members enjoy 40% off or any 5 items for $100.
Peppermint Essentials Gift Set, $9.99
David Bronner AB '95
Awaken your senses with the cool, minty scent of peppermint in this holiday gift set that includes​ Dr. Bronner’s Liquid & Bar Peppermint Soap and Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Lip Balm.
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!
How to Say It Cards - The Foundations, $35
Gorick Ng AB '14, MBA '18
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.
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.​
Black Ancestries Genealogy Research
André Kearns MBA '99
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.
Aaron Craig Mitchell Enterprises, LLC Coaching
Aaron Craig Mitchell MBA '11
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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HABA Members enjoy 15% off all items on the site for a limited time.
The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid, $29
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman PhD '27
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.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, $21.99
Clint Smith EDM '17, PHD '20
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.
Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You, $19.49
Fatimah Gilliam MPP '98
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.
HABA Members receive a 35% discount and 50% audiobook discount until December 1, 2025.
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.
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America, $32.50
Bernadette Atuahene MPA '02
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.
Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy, $30
Maggie Anderson and John Anderson AB '93
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.
Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, $29.95
Anthony Abraham Jack PHD '16
A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel.
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.
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.
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy, $38
John Silvanus Wilson MTS '81, EDM '82, EDD '85
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.
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, $29
Hahrie Han AB '97
The inspiring story of evangelicals in Cincinnati struggling to bridge racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation
Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America, $69
Dayna Bowen Matthew AB '81
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: The People Who Change Our Lives, $29
John B. King AB '96
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.
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.
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power, $26.99
Courtney B. Vance AB '82 and Robin L. Smith
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.
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.
A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power, $30.99
Abby Phillip AB '10
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
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.
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement, $35
Brandon Terry AB '05
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.
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.
Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State, $33
Caleb Gayle MPP '19, MBA '19
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.
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.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption, $20
Bryan Stevenson JD '85
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.
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, $16.99
Haben Girma JD '13
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.
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, $18.00
Uché Blackstock AB '99, MD '05
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.
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, $24
Tracy K. Smith AB '94
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.”
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.
Let Me Liberate You: A Novel, $7.03
Andie David JD '95
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.
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.
C.O.U.R.A.G.E.: 7 Choices for Living a Life Without Regret, $22.99
Christopher O. H. Williams MBA '02
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.
The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, $14.15
Gorick Ng AB '14 MBA '18
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.
Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy, $30
Sharon Malone AB '81
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.
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.
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.
Letisha Marrero
A magic debut middle-grade novel filled with powerful abuelas, santeria, and orishas set in New York City.
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Spelman ‘25 Homecoming Tee, $45
Jordan Taylor C'22 (Spelman College, 2022 HABA Intern)
This one is for the alt, creative girlies that love Spelman down.