Lawrence Hill Books imprint: 31 books
Working While Black
The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every...
Year Before the Flood
A Story of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Spending 2004–2005 in New Orleans investigating the city’s legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through the last year New Orleans was whole. The...
Five for Freedom
The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines...
Unfinished Revolution
Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
The first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language, this exhaustive account draws from a wealth of untapped sources to tell the story of Nicaragua’s continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution’s most emblematic yet enigmatic hero. It traces Ortega’s life...
Pirate State
Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Providing a timely and never-before-seen perspective on the ever-increasing menace of Somali pirates, this account shows how the cargo ship and oil tanker hijackings and ransoms in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean have turned one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes into one of the most dangerous....
Freeing David McCallum
The Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
For ten years before Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how...
Mothers on Trial
The Battle for Children and Custody
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Updated and revised with seven new chapters, a new introduction, and a new resources section, this landmark book is invaluable for women facing a custody battle. It was the first to break the myth that mothers receive preferential treatment over fathers in custody disputes. Although mothers generally...
All the Dreams We've Dreamed
A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed,...
by J. Patrick O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Mumia Abu-Jamal—the most famous death-row inmate in the United States—was sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing police officer Daniel Faulkner. Using the preponderance of evidence to establish that Faulkner shot Abu-Jamal as he approached him and that a passenger in Abu-Jamal’s brother’s...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton
How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Documenting the entire 14-year process of bringing the killers to justice, this chronicle also depicts the 18-month court trial in...
The Seminarian
Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend divinity school up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or "ML" back then, immediately found himself surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room...
Above the Din of War
Afghans Speak About Their Lives, Their Country, and Their Future—and Why America Should Listen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt exposing himself to grave dangers crisscrossing Afghanistan to interview an astonishing array of Afghans. Readers find emotional commentary from a former warlord; blunt talk from a Taliban judge; harrowing stories of abuse from teen-age victims of self-immolation;...
The African Origin of Civilization
Myth or Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
Rescuing Regina
The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A decade after fleeing the Congo for the United States, having endured rape, imprisonment, and torture in her homeland, Regina Bakala found herself locked in a U.S. prison facing deportation to almost certain death. This harrowing true story of an asylum seeker and young mother of two tells how her...