Non-Fiction

To Be Named Something Else, winner of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage--both familial and literary. Centering the coming-of-age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix's debut...

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from...

Presented in a landscape format with vivid photographs of Africa, this book offers a pictorial exploration of this great and varied continent in all its majesty. The world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants,...

The author of Soar! and Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power shares a spiritual, inspirational gift--a call to action from God to succeed and achieve what you are worth. Using ageless biblical principles, Bishop T. D. Jakes teaches that every moment...

Power for Effectiveness in Troubled TimesIn these turbulent times, do you see evil raging against believers but feel powerless to stop it? Do you feel there is a deeper purpose and calling on your life to make a difference, but it is out of reach?Bishop...

Will You Buy My Wares? is a collection of poems exploring love, loss, pain, heartbreak, identity, mental illness, and hope. Some poems were inspired by stories of people close to the author, and some by patients in the hospital where he worked.

Think like an artist and design a classroom that works--well--for everyone In Brilliant Teaching, you will come to understand that equity--when we view it from an informed, multi-layered, and artistic perspective--is the essential purpose of teaching. As...

The Many Moods of a Woman is a poetic journey of self-discovery, and the stories told throughout these pages highlight our unique experiences within the elements of love, hurt, pleasure, and pain. Women love hard and will ride for the people we genuinely...

An essential story of understated courage, the lasting power of a name, and the battle to honor a pioneering legacy. On the eve of his second varsity football game for the Iowa State Cyclones, Jack Trice wrote in a letter, "The honor of my race, family...

When it comes to writing books, Melica Niccole knows how to take you on an emotional roller-coaster by poetically entering your spirit and releasing emotions that have longed to be set free. She knows the consequences of holding onto things for so long...

Cynthia Manick's poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories...

"Coming From Me" is a collection of poems from the heart, mind, and life of Ronald Eugene Stokes. His works touch every aspect of the human experience, from family, love, and religion to nature and death. Each poem was composed as a labor of love for his...

Death is a part of life, and this book is a tribute of love to the author's family, friends, and loved ones who have lost their battle and fell asleep. Her father's chapter is the largest because, to her, he was the greatest man that ever lived. Besides,...

Learn what makes the black market unique, why marketers should care, and how you can effectively connect with black Americans. Drawing on her wealth of experience and on-going research and consulting on the African American market, Pepper shares with...

Arto der Haroutunian takes the reader on a tour of the cuisines of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya in this comprehensive guide to North African food. There are over 300 recipes for traditional dishes such as tagines, stews, soups, and salads using...

The American workplace exhibits a growing imbalance when it comes to human identity. Leaders are frequently defined in the absence of their critical social identifiers, but the exclusion of these identifiers is a mistake and ignores essential physical,...