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Urban Books

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ7899863 ↗
Source-derived summary

Urban Books is a book publisher specializing in African-American topics, founded by author and publisher Carl Weber in 2002.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Urban Books” as open-knowledge reference entry. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Urban, Books and Open-knowledge.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Urban, Books and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7899863. VIAF identifies the subject as 1623150470086904330002. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Urban Books” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.