Biography

This book is about some of the life experiences of a retired chief of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe of Delaware. He informs us what it was like growing up in a state that tries to deny your existence. He tell us of the difficulties of trying to maintain...

Reverend Herbert David Parker was a messenger for Christ for fifty-one years, and a friend to mankind. He was a living testimony that a man of God can be strong and yet still maintain humility. He often let the people know that he was just an instrument,...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars--sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America."[A] harrowing [portrait] of life...

I am writing this book to tell the story of a kid from Everett who joined the Army in the early 1960s and served in Korea, Asia, and West Germany. As a young man, I believed then as I do now about service above self. I hope that this story will be...

Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Pete...

Blues legend B.B. King spent his life sharing the music of his soul, which shone relentlessly through hardship and triumph alike.Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, the man born Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues...

- A biography of Anne Eisner: from her early years and art in New York to the Ituri Forest in the Congo with Patrick Putnam, and back againThis biography traces Anne Eisner's life and art between cultures: from her early years and artistic career in New...

For those that are not aware of the legacy of this African- American President and his struggles, he represents the African- American people as well as all Americans. This book will shed some light. It will show how they "acted" and how some received him...

For those that are not aware of the legacy of this African- American President and his struggles, he represents the African- American people as well as all Americans. This book will shed some light. It will show how they "acted" and how some received him...

Blues is a language--one which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political language. Whether it is passed as a legacy from African village to Mississippi...

A remarkable and inspiring true story that "stuns with raw beauty" about one woman's resilience, her courageous journey to America, and her family's lost way of life. Born in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at age...

The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form...