Cultural Literature

Packed with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects--buttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and more--designed by activists as tools to advance the fight for justice...

In Boysie's Horn, social historian, radio host, producer, journalist, and novelist Steven Leech highlights the influence of one of America's greatest jazz educators, Boysie Lowrie, in making African American Wilmington, Delaware a launchpad for...

This is a true, inspiring and fascinating story of one woman's remark-able struggle from childhood to adulthood, as she combats dismal poverty, brutal hard work, dreadful racism and bias. Blackberry Memories chronicles how the author overcomes her...

From the founder and activist behind the largest movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Tarana Burke shares her never before revealed life story of how she first came to say me too and launch one of the largest cultural events in American...

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom--at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the wolves of Wall Street. Growing up, Cin Fabré didn't know anything about the stock market. But she learned how to hustle from her immigrant parents, saving...

"Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain so...

Evaluates the experiences and teachings of the black leader during his final year of life.

Segregation was a way of life in St. Louis, aptly called the most southern city in the North." These thirteen oral histories describe the daily struggle that pervasive racism demanded but also share the tradition of self-respect that the African American...

Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown's two years' worth of travel searching for home. Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown's...

This is a true, inspiring, and fascinating story of one woman's remarkable struggle from childhood to adulthood, as she combats dismal poverty, brutal hard work, dreadful racism, and bias. Blackberry Memories chronicles how the author overcomes her...

Join author and educator Evelyn Scales Thompson, Ph.D. as she recounts the rich history of the black communities in and around Surry County, North CarolinaFrom slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces...

Wonderful tunes from Count Basie, Erroll Garner, George Gershwin, Neal Hefti, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Kurt Weill and others. Can be played as solos, duets or trios. Includes: As Time Goes By * Jumpin' at the Woodside * Li'l Darlin' * Mack the...

An "elegant and inspiring memoir" by the human rights activist who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa (Sonia Faleiro, New York Times).Nice Leng ete...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.