In the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-American travelers could have a hard time finding towns where they were legally allowed to stay at night and hotels, restaurants, and service stations willing to serve them. In 1936, Victor Hugo...

The Civil War was a revolution in many ways, writes Benjamin Quarles in this renowned work. But on one point there is common agreement: without slavery there would have been no resort to arms. Hence the slave was the key factor in the war. But the...

More than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to start new lives, they made vital contributions to the...

Description: W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on...

Every so often, a memoir comes along with the power to transcend the events in an individual's life and unite people in a collective movement of inspiration and understanding. The Nature of Shadows is such a memoir. At the risk of painting myself too...

The classic psychological study of the roots of discrimination.First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon...

Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and became a member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard,...

Four former singing group members decide to form a record label called Positive Records Period to promote the idea of songs without swearing, the "n" word, excessive sexual connotations, prejudices towards others, etc. Their hope is through this label...

The surprisingly hopeful story of how a straight, nonpromiscuous, everyday girl contracted HIV and how she manages to stay upbeat, inspired, and more positive about life than ever beforeAt nineteen years of age, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white...

In The Naked Crowd, acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he insists, will be crucial to the preservation of essential...

The Nabi'im, or Prophets, are the guardians of this world. They defend not just the hearts, minds and spirits of humanity but the very life of God's most precious creation, though there have been instances wherein a Nabi strayed from his path and due to...

I wish you all the best in your publishing venture, which I'm sure will bring back fond memories for many industry-people and regular air-travelers alike. Mr. Nils J. Flo, Director, Public Relations Scandinavian Airlines System I am sending you an...

"The Mysterious Melody" has been longlisted for the inaugural 2020 Diverse Book Awards, in the Children's category.Pamwe!Twins Naniso and Shinga live in England. They find each other annoying, but when it comes to the crunch, they always have each...

We've all pretended to be something we're not. But Rupen Najarian, an eighty-three-year-old musician living in Glendale, California, has built his whole existence on a lie. The day his village in Turkey was torched by soldiers, seven-year-old Rupen...

Her dreams are his salvation.Despite being an incubus, Davin Murphy has been living by a code of strict celibacy, feeding off women's dreams and fantasies. And he's perfectly content to keep things that way, especially with a particular...