Biography

Ever wonder who the successful person is behind the big headlines and accolades? Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers often quoted Henry David Thoreau's statement that most men "lead lives of quiet desperation". My father courageously chose another path. More Than a...

The definitive biography of Charles Barkley, exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career and his enduring legacy as a provocative voice in American pop cultureHe's one of the most interesting American athletes in the past fifty years...

New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close, complicated, occasionally co-dependent, and at-times uncertain relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.Delving far deeper than the...

A searing memoir of American racism from a Somalian-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Blacks in his adopted land, the United States."No one told me about America." Born in Somalia and...

I am an African American woman, a veteran of the Washington State Patrol, and the Executive Director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. I probably look very good on paper. The irony is that for the same reasons I look good on...

Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in...

Why understanding evolution--the most reviled branch of science--can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enforcing regressive ideas, particularly about race and...

A biographical account featuring the secrets to success from one of the greatest basketball players of all time: LeBron James "Nothing is given. Everything is earned." His power, speed, and killer instincts made him a basketball phenom, but it was...

Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever published Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection...

Acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor shares the harrowing yet deeply hopeful story of her troubled childhood in East St. Louis--a memoir of family, faith and the power of booksAt age eleven, Goldie Taylor is out riding her new...

The Yellow House meets Hidden in Plain View in this multigenerational memoir that celebrates African American quilting, family, and honoring the past. At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked off her front porch in Detroit and dropped on her...