With his father dead and his mother a drug addict, Trey and his sister, Nichelle, are forced to go live with their grandmother in Brooklyn. Surrounded by inner-city crime and conflicting ideologies, Trey seeks security and recognition by becoming a...

UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Offering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations...

Frederick Douglass: A Novel by Sidney Morrison skillfully encompasses the life and times of the most famous American antislavery activist. Douglass's escape from slavery and his public achievements as an ardent abolitionist, journalist, memoirist, and...

David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished,...

"Coe writes like a man with polished wings, flying above it all while watching the high and low tides of life." - E. Ethelbert Miller, co-editor, Poet Lore magazineCharles Coe's latest collection of poetry, Coe is renowned for his powerful readings and...

Celeste Tunnels Underground follows the journey of a civil engineer based in Dallas, Texas who is on a mission to solve the issue of traffic congestion. After researching ways to do this, she lands on building a tunnel and travels across the world to see...

Black Is... is a super cool story about a little boy and his wise grandmother. They go on a magical adventure together, and guess what. It's all about the amazing color black! In this special tale, he learns that his skin is like a treasure chest full of...

"A moving account of a Black British family that travels through the ages from slavery and beyond" BONNIE GREER It is the late eighteenth century. Abroad a slave ship bound from West Africa to Jamaica, a terrified young boy is cared for by Ami, a fellow...

Inspired by a true story Daughter Midwife Princess 'A fascinating story reflecting the past moving alongside the present day' USA Today Bestseller Glynis PetersBorn Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in...

From the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks's second collection explores the question "where do our desires take us?"An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal essay "Uses of the Erotic," Hicks's A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme...