Biography

Nothing is more moving as a tribute than one dedicated to one's family lineage and the valuable wisdom from ancestors. Author William J. Long saw the merit as well in exploring his family tree, especially after his cousin Shelvia requested to know more...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes Ben Philippe's...

There is no more powerful, detested, misunderstood African American in our public life than Clarence Thomas. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas is a haunting portrait of an isolated and complex man, savagely reviled by much of the...

Few American superstar stories are richer, wilder, or more excessive than Rick James's. He played in a band with Neil Young, spent years in jail, produced his first album (which was then picked up by Motown) with money from shadowy sources, crossed rock...

This book is a brief glimpse into my life and the transformation God has made thus far. Experience the journey from the origination of Sunshine BlackRose to realization of life. Watch that realization lead to maturation bringing about the transformation...

Sunlight on Shadow is a memoir, not just of a life, but of a small nation continually sucked into the wars of the powerful . The story is told through the lives of three diverse families: an intellectual medical family, a struggling civil servants family...

In the final instalment of her well-received Two White Feathers trilogy, Jenny Chapman describes a personal journey around the landscape of the Glastonbury Zodiac. Starting at the Girt Dog of Langport and reaching to Burrow Mump, she immerses...

For Food Network star Hazell McKenzie, coming to the US as a teen was supposed to be her deliverance. But achieving the "American Dream" proved harder than she thought. Hazell Mckenzie's path of descent is a stunning testament to her determination as a...

The Sugar Ray Robinson story, like most true-life fables, is often incredible. But it is, withal, a very human story--a story of poverty and riches, success and failure, pride and humility, good and bad.--New York Times Book Review Sugar Ray Robinson...

Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries--among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to...