Non-Fiction

Shedding light on class division, this audiobook offers solutions to class bias in the workplace by analyzing real experiences, social norms, education, wealth, and more.The renewed focus on class, race, and equality in the workplace and beyond is making...

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.--Howard Thurman Known as the godfather of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman served as a spiritual adviser to...

From the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of self. Through poetry and short essays, unfold shows...

A chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education--one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for...

Have you always admired women with flowing hair? Do you long for a wash-and-go style? In Nice Dreads, Lonnice Brittenum Bonner, the author of the classic Good Hair, shares her secrets and personal stories about dreadlocks--from cultivating buds to...

While no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past - and in so doing to better understand the present...

Kim Braxton (AKA) Kacee Kemiah is an American poet and Spoken Word Artist. As an empowered African-American woman, she seeks to share her life experiences with others with the aim of fostering understanding and tolerance. Her poems and book reflect...

Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter and leader in the Underground Railroad, is one of the most significant figures in US history. Her courage and determination in bringing enslaved people to freedom have established her as an icon of the abolitionist...

In November 1810, a 29-year-old English botanist and skilled horticulturalist named William John Burchell landed in Cape Town on his first visit to southern Africa. Despite never having traveled in an ox wagon, he commenced a four-year, 7,000 kilometer...

Hang on and watch your life take flight with FlyGirl! -Marcia Wieder, CEO and Founder of Dream University Before she was thirty years old, Vernice FlyGirl Armour had become a decorated naval aviator, Camp Pendleton's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year and...

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...

Pre-order the wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf.Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human...

Climate change. Two words that are quickly becoming the clarion call to action in the twenty-first century. It is a voter issue, an economy driver, and a defining dynamic for the foreseeable future. Yet, in Black communities, climate change is seen as...

Ever wonder who the successful person is behind the big headlines and accolades? Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers often quoted Henry David Thoreau's statement that most men "lead lives of quiet desperation". My father courageously chose another path. More Than a...

Memories of Africa: Events Experienced in Southern AfricaBy: Robert MazibukoThe teaching of the Bahá'í Faith in Southern Africa continued regardless of the fact that we were in fear that growth might have been arrested, for a time, if the pioneers were...

In a world eager to promote the newest wunderkind, grandmother theology carries us two or more generations back: to the kitchens, hair salons, gardens, and church basements of older Black women who are often invisible in theological discourse but without...