From New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner comes the long awaited sequel to Glamorous Life Calliope learned at a very early age that if she wanted to survive in this world then she needed to stand on her own. When she and her younger brother are...

In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and '60s experiences with the Beat Generation--and her adventures in the mysterious, otherworldly realm "over the fence." Characters based on star Beat authors like Allen...

The anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller featuring escapist romance and a wealthy Black family in 1910s Chicago Like the blazing Chicago sun, the drama is heating up for the Davenports and their social set. Before the summer of...

The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg High School as one of thirteen Black students selected to...

A father and daughter's afternoon of cleaning becomes a celebration of the music, food, and culture of New Orleans.It's a quiet Sunday afternoon of chores at Clara's house. Until Clara's dad starts singing and dancing, that is! With a broom and an...

In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop's murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witness A few days after Christmas, a white cop in New York is as drunk as...

Black actress and activist Hilda Simms was a rising star on the stage and screen in post-WWII America until accusations ofun-Americanism and communist sympathies derailed her career. Hilda Simms emerged as an actress at a time when segregation was...

Reclaiming Venus: The Many Lives of Alvenia Bridges chronicles the remarkable journey of Alvenia Bridges from segregated Kansas to the heights of fashion and rock 'n' roll, breaking barriers and rubbing shoulders with legends. It is a powerful testament...

Revisit the critically acclaimed sophomore novel of Crisis editor Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928).After the death of their parents, the Murray family consists of just two people--Virginia, the younger darker-skinned...

The multimedia artist's first-ever thorough monograph, teeming with cosmograms, numerals and other relics This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Ouattara Watts (born 1957). Over the course of nearly four decades, the...

From an all-star cast of creative talents comes a volatile, genre-defying homage to hip-hop icon Ol' Dirty Bastard that reimagines New York City's Five Boroughs through the eyes of the maverick MC and Wu-Tang Clan co-founder. In a fractured New York...