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by Terry Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
At age fourteen Femi Akindele, an orphaned street-boy from the Makoko slum in Lagos decided to call himself Pastor Gabriel Joshua.
Unqualified and self-taught and now in his mid-forties Gabriel has become a highly acclaimed international speaker on African affairs, economics, terrorism, corruption,...
Tales
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“A clutch of early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Baraka was, without question, the central figure of the Black Arts Movement, and was the most important theorist of that movement’s expression...
by Bernice L. McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surface of an African American family’s history to mend present day relationships . . . Ms. McFadden has a beautiful writing style that is simultaneously lyrical and transparent. In parts of...
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary
Selected Works of Kathleen Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM
Vanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington Post
A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker
Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins...
Sorority Sisters
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for developing me into a
beautiful and talented woman.
Thank you for being my protector
and my guide.
And as I make my way along my journey,
bless me with the wisdom to make
intelligent choices.
So begins Sorority Sisters by Tajuana "TJ" Butler, a dazzling...
by Robert O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.
• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.
• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production...
Around The Globe - Must See Places in Africa
African Travel Guide for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
See wild animals in their natural habitat when you go on a virtual tour of Africa. This culture-rich expanse is a trove of knowledge on biodiversity and how wild animals and humans live and interact with each other. Use this book to raise awareness on the importance of wildlife. Grab a copy now!
Right to Ride
Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing...
Hidden in Plain View
A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.
In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard...
Liberty and Union
The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this ambitious and elegant overview of the Civil War era. The book integrates political, military, and social developments into an epic narrative interwoven...
Hidden Figures
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst,...
by Claude Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.
Published during a literary era marked...
Mirror to America
The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born...
The Conversation
How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In his first book for adults, New York Times bestselling author Hill Harper invites you to join the Conversation: an honest dialogue about the breakdown of African-American relationships. For generations African Americans have turned to their families in times of need – but now, this proud and strong...