The city has long been an important location for film-makers. Visually compelling and always "modern," it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, a diverse range of films are examined...

Fearful of prison time--or lynching--for violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police...

Ethan shares another delightful story of a day spent with his grandmother. This time a visit to his favorite place turns a very sad day into a very happy one. "A Trip To The Fire Station" is the second book in the OMA AND ME series that reveals the...

After losing his best friend in the all out drug war, BOOBY LOCO pulls out all of the stops in order to finish off NIGHTMARE. $80,000 dollars is delivered to BUCHO and his band of assassins: a collective of men that live for money and murder. With these...

Let Me Take Y'all Back tells the tales of different individuals' life experiences in a raw and authentic poetic style. You will be taken on a journey through each unique story shared with the author in real conversations. This is a collection of their...

An emotional, page-turning account of unhealed trauma and personal transformation that will break your heart and change your mind, in the tradition of Somebody's Daughter, A Piece of Cake, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can...

The love poems in Honeysuckle Me are odes to girlhood, the art of dance, romance, passion, the beauty of Black women and their historical resilience, and a reminder that privileged white male patriarchy and oppression are ultimately doomed to fail.

This second edition of Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings published by ii Publishing is a collection covering a myriad of topics from jazz music to a moving tribute to loss of a loved one. Carla pours her heart into the pages of this debut poetry...

A modern-day devotional of 52 inspiring stories and captivating art from the New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart.

As a high school kid, how much does society expect us to know and how do they expect us to respond? Our generation has grown up with the world available to us at our fingertips so we see it all and it's a mess. We're forced to tolerate the hate of many...

Brock spent his youth traveling through the West Coast, documenting his life as vagabond with his stolen point and shoot camera. He spent his days tagging, photographing his surroundings, his friends, and the art he saw on street signs, garages, and...

What is slavery? What does it mean to be a slave? Why does slavery exist today and why did it exist in the past? What can be done to end it? These are important questions, and this book aims to answers them. Across the world today, more than 40 million...

What if you never had another fight or argument? And what if doing that helped bring peace to the world? You are invited to eavesdrop as Dorothie and Martin Hellman reveal the secrets that allowed them to transform an almost failed marriage into one...

Layla and the Bots' newest invention is going to make a big SPLASH!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content,...

Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. Pauli Murray fearlessly...