Non-Fiction

The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. But Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, drove into the center of "outlaw"...

From James Beard Award winner Hugh Acheson comes a seasonal cookbook of 200 recipes designed to make the most of your farmers' market bounty, your CSA box, or your grocery produce aisle. In The Broad Fork, Hugh narrates the four seasons of produce,...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and the color black is one of the most beautiful colors Art historian, art collector, curator, and writer Charles Moore takes you on an exquisite journey through the world of the Black artists who revolutionized...

The inspiring true story of a remarkable coach whose superb undefeated high-school basketball team in 1980s Baltimore produced four NBA players and gave hope to a desperate neighborhood and city--"a feel-good story that is timely as well as true" (Glenn...

A profoundly moving work that liberates our preconceived notions of theology, literature, and poetry. Chaz speaks to our collective conscience in the necessity and beauty of reorienting our vision; from the top to the bottom. With each successive...

This book, The Book of It, is not the ultimate and single explanation of what its author has uncovered by years of reading, research, and listening to the words and teachings of others. The fact is that the only part of It that can be described by a...

"Rutherford describes [The Book of Humans] as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned 'an otherwise average ape' into one capable of creating complex tools, art, music, science, and engineering. It's an intriguing question, one his...

The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States* Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize *You are pure appetite. I am pureAppetite. You are a phantomIn that far-off city where daylightClimbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.--from...

Transcribed from 78 rpm recordings and preserved here long after many of the records have disappeared, this collection of nearly three hundred songs from more than one hundred singers celebrates the diversity of feeling and form that defines the blues...

It's Ecstasy come Dixie. --Southern LivingThe Most Extensive Collection of Southern Recipes Ever in One BookVoted Southern Living magazine's 1996 Reader's Choice Award for best small-town restaurant in the South and the Best in the South for six years...

A must for any black high school or college student.

The Black Sky: Songs to Black Excellence is a collection of poetry that honors the black experience in America. The poems tell the story of the struggles and victories of African Americans in their quest for equal rights. The songs focus on the history...

The Black Sky: Songs to Black Excellence is a collection of poetry that honors the black experience in America. The poems tell the story of the struggles and victories of African Americans in their quest for equal rights. The songs focus on the history...

"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later,...

I wish my father had been present in my life, so I would not have accepted a lot of crap from men... Growing up, I didn't feel loved by my mother which caused.... It is hard to find and maintain a solid group of trustworthy girlfriends to do life with...

In the fifteen chapters that comprise this comprehensive look at the Black family today, contributors deal with an aspect of family life that pertains especially to the Black community. The topics include the extended family, single female parenting,...