Non-Fiction

DE-MISEDUCATION is the culmination of eight years of research that sought to focus on objectivity while balancing breath and conciseness. Its focus is on black America as a people and as a part of greater America. It begins with the Black Golden Age...

Dr. Bobby Jones, host of BET's Bobby Jones Gospel and Video Gospel, joins nineteen acclaimed gospel performers who share personal stories celebrating God's glory. Includes stories from superstars Kirk Franklin, John P. Kee, Shirley Caesar, Rev. James...

Here at last is a comprehensive study that examines, via an extensive review of the literature, the psychological variables that contribute to black-on-black male adolescent homicides. And here also are clear direction signs for the future research that...

Judy Fambrough-Billingsley bares her soul and describes the transformation experienced in her quest to find both birth parents after being abandoned to live in a kinderheim until adopted. From a childhood in Germany shortly after the war to adulthood in...

"Spiritual warfare is that conflict being waged in the invisible, spiritual realm that is being manifest in the visible, physical realm."Whether we know it or not, we are at war.Perhaps you or someone you know has become an emotional, marital, or moral...

"Prayer is the fuel that provides the spiritual spark for our lives."We aren't the first people to struggle with prayer. When Christ's disciples asked, "Teach us to pray," He responded by teaching them a few sentences that have come to be known as the...

What is the purpose of fasting? Sometimes it's hard to make the concentrated effort of prayer. When the need is urgent, God has prescribed an urgent method. Tony Evans asks, "How badly do you want an answer? How much do you want deliverance from that...

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant...

West Africa, 1971. Two old friends rendezvous in Black Star Square, the heart of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to see Ike and Tina Turner, the Staples Singers, Roberta Flack, Wilson Picket, Santana and other black American performers at the mammoth Soul...

Living in a world of darkness caused Dionna to tailspin into self-harming behavior. Cutting became Dionna's go-to behavior. The self-harming behavior eventually got her court-ordered to the Arizona State Hospital, where drugs and takedowns were a...

"To The Women I Once Loved" is a reflection of a poet's heart, his deepest inner feelings towards past relationships and how they contributed to the man he has become. Each piece brings consciousness to parts of a woman that ought to be glorified,...

""If I could, I surely would stand on the rock where Moses stood."" --from the Spiritual ""Elijah Rock"" Taking its theme from the pastoral letter of the Black Catholic bishops of the United States, which spoke of the challenge of being ""authentically...

At a time when the African American church is increasingly associated with the controversial prosperity gospel, pastors Danielle Ayers and Reginald Williams remind black church leaders of the prophetic call to "do justice." Exploring first the biblical...

Experience true empowerment as you journey, To HELL AND BACK , a deeply personal, riveting poetry collection that will resonate with readers of all backgrounds. Divided into four themes, this poetry collection will take you on a reflective,...

To Fool the Rain thoughtfully chronicles Steven Werlin's journey with Fonkoze, but it is also the story of Fonkoze itself. Presented in vivid detail are the lived experiences of Mirlene, Micheline, Ti Rizib, Monique, Rose Marthe, Alta, and other Chemen...

To Fool the Rain thoughtfully chronicles Steven Werlin's journey with Fonkoze, but it is also the story of Fonkoze itself. Presented in vivid detail are the lived experiences of Mirlene, Micheline, Ti Rizib, Monique, Rose Marthe, Alta, and other Chemen...