Biography

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "A gripping journey."--People The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami's crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame. Rick Ross is an...

Marco Thiede, born in 1964 in Germany, writes about his discovery of Punk Rock and how the music changed his life. He describes his experiences from the end of the 70s until today; how he took many trips from Bremen to Punk concerts and gatherings, and...

The faith journeys of a major mentor to the civil rights movement Teacher. Minister. Theologian. Writer. Mystic. Activist. No single label can capture the multiplicity of Howard Thurman's life, but his influence is evident in the most significant aspects...

**A 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST** "A coming-of-age memoir marks the emergence of a major literary voice...Masterful." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "An astonishing, unparalleled memoir...A rhapsody in the truest sense of the word." --Roxane Gay "Every...

Purpose of the book. The book is therapy and reveals how I coped through life. I hope that the book will help others cope in rough situations. I want the book to show (by example) how you can make mistakes but live your life with no regrets. I want the...

Purpose of the book. The book is therapy and reveals how I coped through life. I hope that the book will help others cope in rough situations. I want the book to show (by example) how you can make mistakes but live your life with no regrets. I want the...

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub "The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant and short....The brevity suits not just Walker's style but his worldview, too.....

When Sasha Christiansen was little, she made a wish. She wished for a life filled with adventures. And guess what? God heard her wish and gave her just that life. How to Fight in the Dark is the tale of her life. Christiansen, writing in her forties,...

In the mind's eye of a progressive! Writing this introduction was a prestigious honor from my father to bestow on me. The best way I can explain to you that this the man you're about to embark in reading is the most progressively, motivated person I...

Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative...

This is a must-needed book for my race. Trying to break down the walls of hate toward one another. Time to unite as one. My book has a lot of facts that had been forgotten. It seems as if we as blacks should know how to unite, but some are still ignorant...

American Pamela Courtney's most formative years were spent in the bush of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this recounting of her childhood through adulthood, Courtney, the daughter of missionaries governed by a less-than-supportive missionary organization,...

A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman's Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop (Time) as it tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play. Beginning with the scruffy backlot...

Fallen Preacher Saved By Grace Again!The God we serve has a plan to redeem the lost. As I started preaching the good news, I found myself drawn to those who'd lost their footing. I often disapproved of how the church treated those who had lost their way...

Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It traced the story of black North Carolinians from the colonial period into the 1990s. A revised edition was...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...