Founded in March 1912, DC branch of the NAACP quickly became the leading organization advocating for the city's Black community.President Woodrow Wilson's institution of Jim Crow segregation in the federal government in the spring of 1913 galvanized the...

This is my life story, from birth to age eighty. During that period, I was not accepted by my birth mother or father or by their families. I became a ward of the court, foster child to a family, someone created through incest in the genes, and child...

With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait...

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances. Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family's gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But...

For fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Joanna Goodman, a mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Not Our Kind about three women in post-World War I New York City and the secrets they hold.Brooklyn 1919. As New York City...

"Things I Wish I Could Tell You is a heartfelt and heartwarming book in which Casanova Green uses everything he knows of American vernacular and black storytelling. These poems tell like secrets. This is a book interested in forgiveness and salvation." -...

Cooking with Grease is an inspiring, behind-the-scenes memoir of the life and times of a tenacious political organizer and the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign. Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine...

John B. Davis was a classroom teacher and central, district, and local school administrator for thirty years with the Chicago Public Schools from 1958 1988. He served as a visiting professor and part-time instructor at Roosevelt University, Chicago, in...

Most little girls grow up playing with baby dolls, having tea parties, and fantasizing about who they'll marry when they grow up, but not poor little Blu. She spends her time learning hard lessons from the constant drama surrounding her. Resented by her...

The Connection Point is a folklore that tells about who the Niger is and where the people known by that name came from. How important is a name to people? A name is a very powerful vehicle that identifies the people or their tribe. It gives us a history...

In the city that never sleepsBright lights, drama, and pulling all-nighters. An untold story of the bond of five successful, married friends, journey through this thing we call L.I.F.E. (Love, Infidelity, Friendship, Everlasting).Each one of them walking...