African category: 8440 books
Every Nation Has Its Dish
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American...
Tgm-Wafc Cookery Book
African Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The cookery book project idea was brought forward by our first lady, Dr. Nkechi Enwerem and was embraced by Women Ambassador For Christ (WAFC) of TGM. This is a project that is designed to showcase healthy African dishes and the processes involved in their preparation. With this in mind, TGM-WAFC...
Righteous Propagation
African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence...
by Aaliyah Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
African American Erotic Drama Bundle
How Do You Want It?
When Tamika is confronted by her violent ex-boyfriend Malik, she feels like there's no way out. With no family or friends to turn to, she's completely at his mercy and in the hood people just look away when he abuses her.
However,...
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front...
Life Is God's Best Gift
Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Following the success of the megabestselling Black Pearls, a collection of 365 African proverbs that illuminate the secret to peace and joy; and inspire the words of Cudjo Lewis in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon.
In Africa, grandparents traditionally share their wisdom about life and culture...
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In this lyrical,...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments....
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that integrated all public schools in the United States. But Marshall's contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil rights...
The Preacher King
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 1997
Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily...
Having It All?
Black Women and Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically,...
by Terry McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fiction forever.
Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel—its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy...
Midnight
A Gangster Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Sister Souljah, the hip-hop generation's number one author and most compelling storyteller, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, strength and family. In her bestselling novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah introduced the world to Midnight, a brave but humble lieutenant to a...
Sugar
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
From a critically acclaimed voice in African-American contemporary fiction comes a novel Ebony praised for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end.”
A young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her...