The definitive history of go-go music and cultureGo-go is the heart and soul of Washington, DC's African American culture--a source of resilience for the community and a way to celebrate Black lives. As the soundtrack of the District since the mid-1970s,...

How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spirit Color does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psychologically. In this stunning book, Richard...

A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of the spheres to the "melismatic celebration of disaster" that is the blues, these are poems that map the places where orderly cosmic harmony and dissonance...

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized. Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began...

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized. Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began...

Examines how young adult second-generation Igbo Americans construct their ethnic and transnational identities in a multicultural society. Drawing on interviews, cultural narratives, and thematic analysis, this book foregrounds the voices of SGI...

Perfect for fans of Eat, Pray, Love, this soulful travel memoir blends poetry, global adventure, cultural connection and personal transformation with reflections on race, identity, and belonging. In 2010, twenty-nine-year-old poet Ebony Walden quits her...

A guided journey through the whole Bible for Black women today--part of the USA Today bestselling series with The Bible in 52 Weeks!From the bestselling Bible in 52 Weeks series comes an inspiring new installment written to meet Black women right where...

Analyzing the writer as an activist and feminist who helped shape the Black women's movement. Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature and intellectual thought. A poet, educator,...

"What a beautiful gift of a narrative this is. So much love on every page. A fabulous celebration of the brilliance of Black boys." --JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of the New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin An empowering picture book celebrating...

Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity is the long-awaited successor to Blacks in Appalachia (1985), the first modern anthology to examine the socioeconomic, cultural, and political experiences of Black Appalachians. Edited by Cicero M. Fain III,...

Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity is the long-awaited successor to Blacks in Appalachia (1985), the first modern anthology to examine the socioeconomic, cultural, and political experiences of Black Appalachians. Edited by Cicero M. Fain III,...