Cultural Literature

Intended for parents and teachers of African American students, this book provides strategies for correcting the racial achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. It offers advice on instilling confidence in African American students and on teaching...

Curtis 50 Cent Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback--from tragic personal loss to massive success as a thriving businessman and cable's highest-paid executive--in this unique New York Times bestselling self-help guide.Curtis 50 Cent Jackson rose...

Discover a lost world of farmers cutting hay with scythes and dancing to fiddle music on barn floors through the Long Island paintings of William Sidney Mount. Explore vivid depictions of people of color, presented with great humanity when racist...

In this concise and engaging book, historian Hugh Driver examines the struggle to determine and stabilize the frontier of southern Africa's Cape Colony in the aftermath of the British occupation in 1806. In troop movements arising out of the Napoleonic...

In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared "Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights," but still today there is little consensus on how to advance those rights...

Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try,...

African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been...

The Down Home Cooking: Ward Family Recipes cookbook is more than just another collection of recipes - it is a tribute to the rich history of southern cooking, family traditions, treasured memories, and the art of preparing good food. In Down Home...

The Down Home Cooking: Ward Family Recipes cookbook is more than just another collection of recipes - it is a tribute to the rich history of southern cooking, family traditions, treasured memories, and the art of preparing good food. In Down Home...

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new...

Culled from the extensive archives of one of the most renowned graffiti photographers of all time comes this remarkable collection of previously unpublished images of New York's graffiti scene in the 1980s. If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York...

From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America. When Debra Thompson moved to the United States in 2010, she...

'I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready? Let's get started,...

A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo.On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his...