Non-Fiction

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...

"Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, respectively. Now journalist-historian-activist Emily Bass tells the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa...

Information on peer pressure and how the peer group can be used to reinforce academic achievement.

Titans of Corruption denotes that "No Oppressor will ever allow those who he once fully oppressed, to ever become equal to himself; and, his laws of equality will always be full of deception against the poor no matter their color." This is especially so...

Titans of Corruption denotes that "No Oppressor will ever allow those who he once fully oppressed, to ever become equal to himself; and, his laws of equality will always be full of deception against the poor no matter their color." This is especially so...

What rights, if any, do fat people have? If a child is obese, are the parents legally responsible? Can employers treat overweight employees as different, or disabled? Should fat people be protected by disability laws? Cases of illegal hiring practices,...

The purpose of my book, The Tip of the Arrow, A Study in Leadership, is to share with young people of today and tomorrow the story of young people like me at age sixteen as the blueprint of the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement, a...

Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the official song of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Till Victory Is Won chronicles significant moments in African-American history through more than...

It's 1997 and the year has just begun. During a transition from being a teenage, to having to step up to adulthood, Tiffany is about to experience first-hand, within a five month's span, the test and trials of a life time. Tiffany is a 15 year old,...

The latter half of the twentieth century saw the development of liberationist and progressive theologies whose aim is both to understand life and to enhance it by focusing attention on the ways in which certain groups and ethnic minorities suffer...

Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends--one Black, the other white--who grew up wards of the state in New York. It's April 1976 and Ray is taking Amtrak to San Francisco to reconnect with Scotty, his oldest friend,...

What makes us happy? It's not wealth, youth, beauty, or intelligence, says Dan Buettner. In fact, most of us have the keys within our grasp. Circling the globe to study the world's happiest populations, Buettner has spotted several common principles that...

Sent by the World Health Organization to assist the Ethiopian government in preventing meningitis outbreaks in 1990, Dr. Cornelia Davis eagerly accepted this posting. She headed to Addis Ababa, unaware of an obscure war that had gone on for two decades...

When adult Levonne Gaddy returns to the rural North Carolina community, where she was born and raised, to attend her mother's funeral, the director bars her entry to the viewing room, assuming she is white and therefore not related to the "colored" woman...

Three for Me is a book about a young man who experienced harsh, catastrophic events early in life and the trials and tribulations he experienced as he grew into adulthood and created a family history that exists today. It's a family tree that is alive,...