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A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantati...

The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World’s Great Me...

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases i...

Ode to America is a song both difficult and sweet. It touches upon America's bittersweet soul as it struggles to impress itself upon a girl so unfa...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •...

From the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a vital work revealing that the secret to mastery is already with...

Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples Africans and Native Americans (the book) explores key is...

World's Great Men of Power by J.A. Rogers Type: E-Book Pages: 439 The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, begin...

National BestsellerNominated for the Academy Award for Best DocumentaryTo compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed film...

Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-orient...

In the history of legendary boxers, there was Joe Louis and Sonny Liston . . . and then, “the heavens opened up, and there appeared a great man des...

The Destruction of Black Civilization took author Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. This book, which was to...

The Newbery Medal–winning classic novel about the courage and faith—and the love of a dog—that give a family strength in the face of inhumanity. Th...

One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songw...

"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and writtenby Damien PaulGRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sun...

An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race -- and promises to change the way we r...

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Di...

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beau...

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom...

In this “miraculous” novel by the author of Highwire Moon, a Lowcountry woman finds her place in the world during the Civil Rights era (USA Today)....

James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris.In the 1950s Pari...

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction:The modern cla...

Etheridge Knight’s first book of poetry, Poems from Prison, was acclaimed by poet Gwendolyn Brooks with the words “This poetry is a major announcem...

Hardy's debut novel about the lives of black gay men in New York City is unabashedly and unapologetically written for the African-American male. Ro...

Trying to find out why her man did her wrong and who did him in, this woman isn't waiting to exhale--she's ready to fight back.Patricia Conley cons...

Acclaimed for her moving depictions of interracial love, bestselling author Sandra Kitt delivers a passionate and provocative tale of modern romanc...

Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden, best friends since second grade, share at least two common goals - having fun and finding Prince Charming. As their c...

"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best." — Atlanta Jou...

The definitive biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the “Empress of the Blues”Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of...

The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor “[A] shrewd and lyrical portraya...

This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of Zora Neale Hurston’s best writing in one authoritativ...