Cultural Literature

Long before it came to prominence as the model city of the New South, Atlanta was a hotbed of entertainment, business, and civic life for African Americans.At the same time that Harlem was undergoing its acclaimed renaissance, Atlanta could boast of...

The fascinating, upfront and unapologetic (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, subject of the major motion picture King Richard, and father to two of the greatest athletes and professional tennis champions of all...

The fascinating, "upfront and unapologetic" (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of Richard Williams, a businessman, tennis coach, subject of the major motion picture King Richard, and father to two of the greatest athletes and professional tennis champions of all...

This new edition of T. Thomas Fortune's masterpiece--originally published in 1884--presents a classic work of African American political thought to a new generation of readers. Like the intellectual giants who emerged before and after him--Frederick...

In Black & White: Healing Racial Divide, the author delivers a straight-down-the-middle version of the race problem in America and around the world. A child of the south and the civil rights movement, he equally speaks to black and white hang-ups when...

African Americans have a rich and compelling Christian heritage--one that stretches back to foundational figures such as the church fathers Augustine and Tertullian. Yet white Christians often expect their black brothers and sisters to embrace a...

Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. It reveals that behind the South Sea...

(Applause Books). Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story tells the remarkable story of Foxx, a veteran comedian and "overnight sensation" at the age of 49 whose early life was defined by adversity and his post- Sanford and Son years by a blur of women,...

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging...

While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America's leading black historians, sets the record straight. As Benjamin...

Birmingham began as a boomtown filled with immigrants who held on to the best recipes from their homelands. More recently, locals like Frank Stitt and Carole Griffin helped transform the modern southern city into a foodie destination with the best of...

More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles Yardbird Parker--known to his friends and fans simply as Bird.Parker's virtuoso technique, melodic genius, and inspired improvisations helped launch a whole new...