"LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler's...

Young Amar'e Stoudemire is back in the all-star basketball adventure--STAT: Standing Tall and Talented!Eleven-year-old Amar'e Stoudemire is getting a lot of attention for all of the streetball tournaments he's been dominating lately. So much so that the...

Young Amar'e Stoudemire is back in the all-star basketball adventure--STAT: Standing Tall and Talented!Amar'e's idol, Overtime Tanner plans the biggest streetball tournament every year. But when Overtime gets hurt during a basketball game, he can't make...

Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements or strength of character in the face of monumental hardships have called attention to the genius of the African...

The generational debate in Nigerian poetry has been shaped by the interventions of such anthologies as Voices from the Fringes (1988), edited by Harry Garuba, Poets in their Youth (1988), edited Uche Nduka and Ositadinma Ike, Gems Out of Africa: A Wake...

The selected works of the late poet Reginald Shepherd, edited by Jericho Brown

Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations...

"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ..."The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her...

Hey, diddle, diddle, Cricket did fiddleWhile Firefly mimicked the moon.Wildebeest rumbledWhile Wild Dog grumbled, and Lion chased after Baboon. Introducing Mother Goose as you've never seen her before! This unique look at Africa preserves all the charm...