Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony B. Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief volume asks the central question: What really is African American religion? Sketching the...

Toni Morrison's readers and critics typically focus more on the "what" than the "how" of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison's expressed narrative intention of...

A book of stunning black and white photographs, capturing the events, people, and landscape of Chicago's Washington Park during the summer of 1987. Located in Chicago's South side and designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted,...

For fans of Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis and Abi Daire's The Girl with the Louding Voice comes a stunning literary debut about one intercultural family's search for home and the power of a lifelong dream. It is summer 1969 in the Swiss countryside,...

Bella Fontaine is on her own. Fresh out of college and with the winnings from her first international photography competition, she decides to leave Los Angeles to forge a new life in New York City. But will she be able to overcome the trauma of her...

Author Orice Jenkins forces readers to reexamine one of the bleakest chapters in Early County History .

Rediscover George S. Schuyler with a brand new collection of pulp fiction stories never before published in book form.George S. Schuyler was an African American journalist, social commentator and author with a very complicated legacy. Despite making...

The host of PBS's The Color of Money presents his bestselling guide to personal wealth for African Americans. Nationally renowned financial expert Kelvin Boston offers basic money management advice tailored for African Americans. It is an inspiring,...

How can we tackle racism and sexism on our college and university campuses? What is the role of education leaders in advancing social justice? Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative...

After graduating from college, through hard-work and determination Cynthia achieves an amazing position as an advertising executive in New York City and was recently promoted to Vice-President. She is successful, engaged to her college sweetheart, and...

Recognized as one of the first great African American speakers in the United States, Frederick Douglass was a self-emancipated slave, renowned abolitionist, orator, and influential writer championing civil rights in the nineteenth century. This...

The obsession to be perfect, to gain the love of those in your life, and to assure everyone else is happy can lead to varying traumas and negative behaviors. For Author Dana L. Roberson, it led to eight years of alcoholism, mental illness, and years of...