Amistad Trade Paperback OriginalThe author of Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, now a Netflix film starring Alfre Woodard, returns with a riveting, emotionally rich, novel that explores the complex rel
We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life. When Eloise
"Ladee Hubbard's voice is a welcome original." -Mary GaitskillThe acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs painful African American stereotypes and offers a fresh and searing critique on
Our nation was founded on the belief that all men are created equal. Nearly two hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, slavery had been abolished but America was still seg
In Washington, Fergus M. Bordewich turns his eye to the backroom deal making and shifting alliances among our founding fathers and in doing so pulls back the curtain on the lives of slaves who actual
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop d
From the cover of Essence to the stage at the Apollo, from reruns of her hit show The Parkers to her reality program Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance, Mo'Nique exults in the joys of being a large woman. Here,
With Come to Win, Venus Williams, the multiple Grand Slam tennis champion and entrepreneur, along with an esteemed group of business leaders, politicians, and acclaimed artists, serves up a book of
Collected here together for the first time are the selected letters of one of the most influential and important activists in the American civil rights movement--the brilliant legal mind and foot sold
