Africa

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime--the source for HBO's Winning Time--the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American...

Published to critical acclaim in 1959 and long out of print, Crusader Without Violence was the first biography of the dynamic leader who emerged from the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott as the spokesman of the twentieth-century American civil rights...

Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in massive resistance to the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board decision of 1954. The editorial pages of the local family-owned newspaper, The Farmville Herald, led the...

'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising...

On a chilly December afternoon in 1975, Bernard Whitehurst Jr., a 33-year-old father of four, was mistaken for a robbery suspect by Montgomery, Alabama, police officers. A brief foot chase ensued, and it ended with one of the pursuing officers shooting...

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King...

An insightful, immersive history of the world's most dramatic racial reckoning--the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa--exploring what happens after a country declares its ended white supremacy.The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 appeared...

Life along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield's, examining this reality closely meant confronting challenges and tragedies that often felt overwhelming, even as...

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha Sesay's indispensable and gripping account of the brutal abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram...

Built as a gated, all-white community, in the 20th century LeDroit Park became the premier neighborhood of Washington, DC's Black elite.LeDroit Park's famed arch offers entry into a tree-lined neighborhood with unique architecture and a captivating...

A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced...

496 years. 100 historical facts. This brief museum of Black exploration connects the very first Angolans enslaved in America and the post-Civil War illusions of freedom to the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s, the War on Drugs, and all the way...

With contributions from more than 80 participants, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle is one of the most comprehensive books ever published about the civil rights movement in Mississippi. The anthology focuses on the critical year of 1964, when civil rights...

Although focusing most closely after World War II on events in Alabama, this brief summary of the American civil rights movement traces the roots of the struggle back to the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. These...

At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners...

A first-hand account of Angola's civil war.