Greed driven sex traffickers kidnap and sell Nari Bentley a charming, lovely young lady of bi-racial ethnicity, along with her younger sibling into a detestable, cesspool of child pornography and exploitation at the hands of a heartless sex ring leader...

Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected...

Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors.--Elizabeth Alexander, from the Introduction Using advertising photographs of black women (and men) drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and Jet...

By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has...

This beautifully photographed concept book teaches matching skills and highlights different activities animal families like to do together. All animals have families. Monkey, hippo, elephant, buffalo, and zebra families look very different. Do you think...

This beautifully photographed concept book teaches matching skills and highlights different activities animal families like to do together. All animals have families. Monkey, hippo, elephant, buffalo, and zebra families look very different. Do you think...

Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York...

"Grief has a way of cementing our feet to the ground wherever we're standing when it hits us. It takes hard work to get unstuck from that place, but we have to be willing to dig in."   In this coming of age tale, Mbinguni weaves a narrative about...

While the racial polarity over the O. J. Simpson trial was powerful and dramatic, there are far deeper and wider differences over Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. It is no exaggeration to say that since the Million Man March, Farrakhan has become...

Where could Bongo be? Help a young boy find his beloved toy--and figure out how he got lost to begin with. The boy knows Bongo was right there with him this morning--but suddenly, Bongo is missing. He asks his whole family if they've seen the stuffed...

Fame, clout, money, and popularity; Jade Williams, a freelance hip hop dancer, has everything any high school senior could want, including the finest, flyest basketball player in school, Mike Harrison. Raised by her rich mother to believe that as long as...

From John Edgar Wideman, "a master [who] boldly subverts what a short story can be" (Publishers Weekly) comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a...