Non-Fiction

"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." --Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets FellowshipUrban tumbleweed, some people...

Survived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets.Saved by education.This is Dr. Maysa Akbar's story. A story of overcoming Urban Trauma.It's easy to look down at urban communities and wonder why economic and social disparities...

You are doing it on your exercise book, beer coasters, the bench in the park, the school toilet, in the sand, during courses or while on the phone: to doodle, scrawl, scribble or just to daub is a basic need to express our creativity and sometimes the...

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours--and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes--these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in...

There are very few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime. And even fewer who are as well respected as Bill White.Bill White, who's now in his mid 70s, was an All-Star first baseman for many years...

A "touching, heartbreaking, and exceptional" (Town & Country) coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents--set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico. Hayden Herrera's parents each married five times; following...

Prepare yourself for UPGRADED NEGRO 20.0 the second book from BROTHER HYPNOTIC. Featuring the tribute to black women SUPREME SISTA and the tribute to MICHAEL JACKSON HEAVEN'S GLAD YOU CAME. The short stories GHETTO LOVE, SPANISH HARLEM and the return of...

When you're lying awake at 4 am, it's the perfect time for those deep and intrusive thoughts to surface. For Davia and S.P., it's the opportune time for self-reflection and immersive imagination. In their first collaboration, authors Davia Chin and S.P...

We should all be forthright We must strive for what's right Be a stirring voice for the stigmatized Injustice warriors this is our fight Virtuous we should have an appetite Shared ideals we should all invite So fascinating how we are intertwined ...

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn't seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region...

UNSTEADY, Monique Ferrell's first full-length collection of poetry and dramatic monologues, is an examination of a life in progress. The verse in this collection delves deeply into such themes as race, class, violence, gentrification, sexuality,...

Unspoken: Exposing the Silent yet Critical Persuasion of African Traditional Religion has an enormous unshakable influence on the African Christian churches, both in Africa and Diaspora. This book is a well-researched masterpiece on African traditional...

Unspoken Thoughts of Me: Focuses on life situations and events of what someone is going through or has been through. Throughout these pages this book will focus on the closeness of Jesus love, blessings and, mercy. Your situation is not your destination,...

Diversity was supposed to offer us respect and understanding. Yet somehow we ended up with so much resentment and confusion, so much division and discord, that for many, the project is ruined. The well of diversity has been poisoned. With a bit of effort...

Unpeopled Eden opens in Mictlán, the region of the dead in Aztec mythology, inviting us down into a world where "the men are never coming home" and "rows of ghosts come forth to sing." Haunted by border crossers and forgotten deportees, lost brothers and...