I saw a car in a driveway and I ducked under the car lying there, afraid to move. It was still in the middle of the day, about five or six o'clock. Every time someone would walk past, or I heard something my heart would start beating so fast because, I...

On the heels of swing, bebop lifted jazz from the dance floor into an art form powered by virtuoso players. This engaging collection of essays, biographies and reviews by veteran jazz journalist Scott Yanow probes the lives and revolutionary works of...

Beautiful Strange: Memoirs of a Life Once Lived is a vivid compilation of poetry and prose that beautifully depicts the life of novelist and poet Kalandra St. George. As it trundles fluidly through a vast landscape of emotions, Beautiful chronicles a...

Beautiful Me is the first book in the Beautiful Me Series. It's a confidence-boosting, rhyming picture book that promotes self-love. It's imperative that all children see positive images that reflect self. The beautiful illustrations and poetry of the...

Beautiful Me is the first book in the Beautiful Me Series. It's a confidence-boosting, rhyming picture book that promotes self-love. It's imperative that all children see positive images that reflect self. The beautiful illustrations and poetry of the...

Devin had his whole life figured out-high school, college, and then the NFL. Who knew one accident would set a world of chaos in motion? Karma has a way of creeping up on you. Who's with you when it seems everyone is against? Do you retreat or boss up...

Our generation made hip-hop. But hip-hop also made us. Why are suburban kids referring to their subdivision as "block"? Why has the pimp become a figure of male power? Why has dodging the feds become an act of honor long after one has made millions as a...

Based on a true story, this heartwarming picture book shows how one gift changed the fate of a poor Ugandan family--especially the young girl who wanted to go to school. More than anything, Beatrice longs to be a schoolgirl. But in her small African...

It's shocking how little most of us know about the fundamental rules for workplace survival. Few people truly understand how to hang onto their jobs, how to effectively respond to threats to their jobs, or what to do if their main source of income is...

In a series of insightful, probing interviews, Dax-Devlon Ross gives voice to the less-acknowledged realms of the black experience and gives us all new role models of courage, iconoclasm, and creativity. Ross, an inner-city schoolteacher who eschewed a...

In this blockbuster fantasy series, perfect for fans of Kingdom of the Wicked and Iron Widow, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they journey into a magical jungle to hunt down a vicious monster. "Rich in magic and mythos, Beasts of Prey is a...

The first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan of Beastie Boys and golden-era hip hop, as well as photography and Spike Jonze's own focused audiences. Spike...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive...

W. C. Handy, Furry Lewis, Booker White, Lillie May Glover, Roosevelt Sykes, Arthur Crudup, B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Muddy Waters -- these and other musicians, singers, and songwriters, including the young Elvis Presley, eventually went to Beale...

Getting into Millwood High, the tightest high school in Baltimore, is all that's been consuming thirteen-year-old F.A.T. (Fabulous And Thick, that is) Eboni Michelle Imes. When she's accepted, all that she can think about are four years of fun with her...