General African American Studies

In this valuable volume of oral history, the recorded childhood memories of African Americans--from family rituals to first jobs, neighborhood games to school--are illustrated with vintage photographs culled from family albums and archives.Chronicling...

This book captures the historical impacts of the African American community of Key West, Florida.Known best as a vacation destination and home to artists, beach bums, and celebrities, Key West also boasts a proud African-American heritage that has its...

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property. ...

From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment. Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was...

The First Amendment of the US Constitution's Bill of Rights provides expressive freedoms through a number of "clauses." Among these, the least explored clauses are the Assembly and Petition Clauses, which provide that "Congress shall make no law.....

Now an HBO film! Catch the premiere this fall. In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of his world heavyweight title,...

Baltimore, MD- Abecedarian Books, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of A Fighter All My Life, a memoir, by Sam Johnson, a union organizer and professed militant. Compiled from tapes made over a ten-year period and lovingly transcribed, A...

Documents the strong relationship between miseducation and incarceration of black boys and young men Why are so many black boys being expelled from preschool? Why are so many black boys being retained? Why are so many suspended? Why are so many placed in...

In this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the...

'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary author both at home and internationally, ' Simon Armitage declared, when she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2019. 'Through poems rooted in...

Revolutionary Theology shines new light on the influential thought of James Hal Cone, the pioneering Black liberation theologian.Author Arnold L. Farr explores Cone's life, writings, and his powerful vision of Black liberation theology, confirming their...