Cultural Literature

The reimagined story of Anarcha, an enslaved Black woman, subjected to medical experiments by Dr. Marion Sims. Selected by Tyehimba Jess as a National Poetry Series winner. In this provocative collection by award-winning poet and artist Dominique...

The goal of this two-in-one book and the same time movie is written in a form of demonstration, trend changing and a wakeup call to all dark-skin people worldwide in practice. In relation to human race and Black people's reputation.

The goal of this two-in-one book and the same time movie is written in a form of demonstration, trend changing and a wakeup call to all dark-skin people worldwide in practice. In relation to human race and Black people's reputation.

The Brown Boy Crisis takes educators, graduate students, scholars, and policymakers inside the minds of a group of learners who fail to overcome the racial barriers schools often have in place to stumble their academic success. Thought to be monolithic...

Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial CongoWith contributions from celebrated authors such as Sinzo Aanza, Jean Bofane and Annie Lulu, e.a.Based upon the extensive research of the...

In Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago--from the Great Migration to the present day--as both a cradle of black intellect, art, and politics and a distillation of America's deepest...

'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya. By the same token, Adekoya himself seems poised to become one of the most important and subtle new...

This book goes where no other work has gone. It refuses to conform to the conventional descriptions of the realities of widows in Africa. Thus, rather than approach the issue of widowhood from the vantage point of what society can do for widows, the book...

In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds...

Legendary wordsmith Raekwon the Chef opens up about his journey from the staircases of Park Hill in Staten Island to sold-out stadiums around the world with Wu-Tang Clan in this revealing memoir--perfect for fans of The Autobiography of Gucci Mane and...

An explosive and deeply reported look at the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry, from acclaimed New York Times finance reporter Emily Flitter. In 2018, Emily Flitter received a tip that Morgan Stanley had fired a Black...

Aspiring business owners and executives seeking to climb to the next rung, young to mid-career professionals seeking tools for life achievement, and general readers interested in biographies of successful people will like Larry Thornton's Why Not Win?...

In homage to the radical power of art, Living While Black celebrates the small acts of resistance that comprise the daily lives of Black folks by presenting them in a series of vivid illustrations. Laughing. Grieving. Being a kid. Even the purest...

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime--the source for HBO's Winning Time--the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American...

From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it. In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional...

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime--the source for HBO's Winning Time--the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American...