Biography

The remarkable autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda "Fascinating...your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage,...

In post-colonial Morocco, among the fragile embers of a newly fledged nation, one shepherd boy from the mountains managed to obtain the unthinkable - an education. Now Europe, along with the opportunity to continue his path of learning, beckons Jusef...

An Expression of Pedagogy: A Theory of Acceptable Losses: Elements of The African American DiasporasBy: Sherman Bonds, Ed.D. The work of "An Expression of Pedagogy and The African American Consciousness" offers a central perspective for the...

Caught between family demands, social groups, and ostracized as a member of the religious "Holy Rollers," the author of AMERICAN ROBOT: A Cultural Chameleon Rising Above Race & Religious Traumas balances on precarious razor edges of sacred edicts,...

Caught between family demands, social groups, and ostracized as a member of the religious "Holy Rollers," the author of AMERICAN ROBOT: A Cultural Chameleon Rising Above Race & Religious Traumas balances on precarious razor edges of sacred edicts,...

Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom make the claim that there have been great strides regarding the history of racism and argue that perhaps all will be equal in time. In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important...

The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too often, separates black America from white." Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Gates...

As Seen on Fox & Friends and The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton! An Iraq War memoir and searing political commentary from Fox News regular and "America's Favorite Black, Gay Republican" Rob Smith Moonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking...

Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) was a choreographic giant in the modern dance world and a champion of African-American talent and culture. His interracial Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater provided opportunities to black dancers and choreographers when no one...

Behind Jamaica's global musical reverberation lies the unlikely story of a boarding school run by Roman Catholic nuns, with a brass band that helped shape the sound of some the world's most beloved musical forms. Under a strict disciplinarian regime,...

Here is, to quote the eminent historian Nathan Irvin Huggins, "one of the finest American autobiographies written in this century." Born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson began his career as a high-school principal. He went on to...

HE HAS TAKEN HIS GAME -- AND THE GAME -- TO A NEW LEVEL He grew up in Virginia with nothing but his talent and his heart. But he had The Plan: his never-say-die dream to become an NBA superstar. So he began his journey down a road full of obstacles...

Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced,...

Follow the journey of an ordinary woman who experienced the pain of several miscarriages. Experience God's faithfulness as He answered her heart's desire.

Winner of the Gold Medal for Memoir/Biography from the Military Writers Society of America A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting."--Thomas E. Ricks, New...

Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book that won her that award, The Color Purple, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and made into an Academy...