Biography

Immerse yourself in the first-person success stories told by American writers, artists, philanthropists, scientists, business executives, and chefs-all immigrants who struggled against racism, sexism, and abuse to become influencers and role models in...

Like many 18-year-olds who sign up to serve with the U.S. Navy, Petersen was looking for adventure when he enlisted. The difference between him and the average kid of 1950, when he enlisted, was that Petersen was African American. At the time military...

What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account. With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the...

This is a gripping and inspiring story of the greatest evangelist in Africa, Dr. Egon Falk, also known as Africa's Billy Graham.The book is testimony to his great love for the African people, his passion for serving God, and helping African people out of...

Internet Encounters chronicles how an African American woman hoping to find safe, secure, and unconditional love in cyberspace from her corner of the earth in Harlem eventually found it in herself, not a man. She endures many dating mishaps, blunders,...

What is positive Black masculinity? Who should define it? Khefa Nosakhere's first nonfiction book, Institutional racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright is a multi layered analysis of how...

In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of...

A treat for every hip hop fan, this book presents a rare and indispensable look into the private life of the iconic Tupak Shakur, complete with original letters and poems.

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row--a powerful memoir about fighting for, and winning, exoneration In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the...

The writing of these stories began when a sixteen-year-old black girl sitting in a high school class in Trenton N.J raised her hand. Her all black class had been assigned the task of writing a short essay on any personal experience with a white person...

Incurable Blues explores the life and genius of Hubert Sumlin, a highly influential guitarist who has survived cancer, alcoholism, and personal and professional tribulations to testify to the classic days of Chicago blues. Sumlin's incendiary guitar...

One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and...