Black & African American

“African Founders is a Promethean work, a truly magisterial and magnificent book of cultural history that extracts from potentially dry demographi

In 1982, at the age of 38, Alice Walker’s life pivoted dramatically and irrevocably with the publication of The Color Purple, her third published novel that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize

“The Color of Abolition proves an invaluable addition to abolitionist history, which has grown immeasurably richer in recent years.”

“If America was forged and reforged in the South, then it can be healed and reinvented there as well (and perhaps it must be so).”

Racial justice, judicial reform, and systemic racism have been hot topics on the nation’s radar screen in recent years.

What do you do when the world refuses to look at you, to really see you? When, still, your life is expendable if the smallest excuse for taking it can be conjured?

“Colorization teems with great stories of Black cinematic struggles and triumphs that bring a century of Hollywood outrages and inroads vividly and fearle

In Stone the Saints: Poems of an Igbo Son, Onuoha does not venture far from traditional literary resources to bring into focus the reality of the Igbo people and their role in the

“What is most heartening about the events described in The Kaepernick Effect is the sophistication of these young athletes and their commitment to the causes that have provoked the

“an incredibly valuable, insightful, and instructive book . . .

“Armed with the insight and lessons from her youth, the author emerged as a bright young college student who learned to love herself for who she was and who she has yet to become.”

“High school students should be especially eager to read this history, a sense of 1700s America they won’t find in their textbooks.”