Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s, and from the beginning, Black Americans rode alongside and raced against white competitors. Robert J. Turpin sheds light on the contributions of Black cyclists from the sport's early days through the...

Winner of the 2018 International Latino Book Awards"In this beautiful gem about a girl who wants to learn to read, letters burst forth from imagery done in cut-paper collage and a rainbow of color, each page telling its own story with a quiet,...

Once a line has been crossed, there is no turning back. In A Thin Line Between Sex and Lies, one thing is for certain, life will never be the same for Benjamin and Tamara. Sex, lies, and more lies. Stacey has nothing left to lose. Her dangerous game of...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history,...

Join Author Rodney T. Cohen as he reveals the history & beginnings of the Black Colleges of Atlanta and the distinguished alumni they shaped.By 1865, although Atlanta and the Confederacy still lay wounded in the wake of the Union victory, black higher...

From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American...