Drama

This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace with historical events, like the sit-in...

"The love of money is the root to all evil, but poverty and wealth are its greatest companions..." A.L. Smith Human trafficking is often considered an international phenomenon and women from third world countries are the first images that come to mind...

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...

How is it that some life changes can happen in a blink of an eye?The life of Samantha Calls, AKA Sam, changed just that quickly. More like a drop of a dime, since Sam did some dropping.She thought that she was living the life she was born to live.But a...

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years...

Mya Wilson, a paralegal in St. Louis has spent the last couple of years entertaining married men or rather allowing them to entertain her. Never has she preyed on a married man, it's just what society has offered. No it's not ideal but neither is wearing...

Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the...

Adam thought that his mom was the whole world. Then one day his whole world changed. He found out that what he was taught by his mom was not the way things were in the real world. Adam was stuck between what he thought was real and right and the way the...

Camille's world was just getting back to normal after losing the love of her life in a brutal hit and run accident a year ago. She was in no way ready for the complication of a new relationship when she met Sean. Camille turns to her best friend, Rita,...

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and...

This book is semi autobiographical, semi serious, semi comedic but totally legitimate. I have endeavoured to be semi specific and, to the best of my ability, as detailed as possible in most instances, but with discretion so as not to offend anyone wise...

Roger L. Green was born in Nebraska-the third of four children in his family. The Green family moved to Africa in 1950, staying for 10 years. After returning to the U.S. from Africa, Roger graduated from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and went into...

My name is Linda Lawson, I was born with the name of Linder Laverne Kizee on June 27, 1953 in Blairs Virginia to an uneducated sharecropper and housewife. We were dirt poor and lived off the land. I had four brothers and two sisters. In 1958, we abruptly...

This is a journey that God brought me through and I can't do anything but praise him. We all go through trials and tribulations and our testimony is what makes us and not breaks us. Be of good courage, even when your back is up against the wall, don't...

Small town beauty Clarissa, is suffering from a major heartbreak when her fiancé unexpectedly leaves her for his career. Determined to start fresh, she embarks on a new journey in Miami...This is where she finds love like she has never felt before in the...

Originating from a happy home in the small town of Oxford, Maryland, Anna Baker finds herself facing challenges that push her to contemplate ending it all. After living a life experienced through hardship and adversity from love and shame through blood...