Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town. While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into...

Meghan Markle joined the British royal family after a successful acting career. Read about her career, her human rights work, and her path to becoming royalty!

As a sixth-grader, Marley Dias started a campaign to help make sure girls of all races have access to books that feature main characters who look like them. She also went on to write a book of her own. Learn more about how she is making a difference for...

Author Kwame Alexander writes books for children of all ages. His book The Crossover won the Newbery Medal in 2015. Learn more about his writing success!

Civil rights leader and legislator Lloyd A. Barbee frequently signed his correspondence with "Justice for All," a phrase that embodied his life's work of fighting for equality and fairness. An attorney most remembered for the landmark case that...

Jaden Smith acts, sings, and designs clothes. Read about how he has used his talents to launch this exciting and varied career!

2000 marks the centenary of Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works--Fifty Years...

Amandla Stenberg had her first big break as Rue in the 2012 The Hunger Games movie. She is an actress, musician, writer, and activist. Learn more about how Amandla Stenberg is using her voice to make a difference!

When A Top Black Business Executive Makes A Move That Is Way Overdue, Violence Erupts. A deranged gunman takes deadly aim and lWhen A Top Black Business Executive Makes A Move That Is Way Overdue, Violence Erupts, Powerful People Die And The Big City Is...

Private Arrangements No man has ever tempted her like this....Nikki Cartwright can't believe Jonas Steele - the Jonas Steele - has chosen her for a high-profile marketing venture. It could make her career. But when she remembers the kiss they once...

They're discovering the healing powers of passionBurned-by-love architect Hunter McKay came home to Phoenix to open her own firm, not rekindle her fleeting high school romance with playboy Tyson Steele. But when she runs into the sexy surgeon at a...

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time. Many of us want to do something to improve race relations, but we don't know where to start or even if we can make a difference. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, beloved authors and good...

An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of...