"If the love doesn't feel like '90s R&B, I don't want it!"To avoid being let down Toni Riley doesn't ever make birthday plans, but a once in a lifetime private lesson with famed artist Arlan Parks just might be worth breaking the rules for.'90s Kinda...

NAKED, A NEW POETRY COLLECTION by Last Poet Abiodun Oyewole, openly explores themes of self-love, forgiveness, lost love, survival, and cultural identity. The poems are intelligent, powerful, direct, engaging, and intense, shaped by the emotions they...

Racism is America's number one problem. We can no longer be in denial. America could learn from South Africa and Germany. Why do some Black youth associate being smart with acting white? Why are so many Blacks killed by the police? This book gives Black...

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Dj?l? Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror "A fantastical, brutal and thrilling triumph of the imagination...Clark's...

Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Kerim Neto returns to his hometown, a city on Africa's Atlantic coast, to search for Mina, his former model, lover, and muse. But Mina has disappeared. He combs the streets and byways he has...

Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Curated by Tureeda Mikell. Cover art by John Sims. The PATRICE LUMUMBA anthology collects the liberatory words of 24 authors, many of whom call Oakland, California, home. Herein are...

For anyone ready to move their life forward, from tragedy, personal failure, unfair circumstances, or just a sense of being stuck, baseball legend and bestselling author Darryl Strawberry offers transformational practices and the tangible hope that you...

How to Raise Black Kids in a Racist World#1 New Release in Teacher Resources and Student LifeRaising Confident Black Kids includes everything Black and multi-racial families need to know to raise empowered, confident children. From the realities of...

"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life." --The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.Warrior. Samurai. Legend...

I, the Lord God, will put breath in you, and once again you will live. Ezekiel 37:5Sassy air hostess Isoken Adolo has one rule - six-date maximum before she's on to the next. Loss and grief made her that way.When life hands her an unexpected gut punch,...

Like A Good Neighbor, Sidney Is ThereNeither Daren nor Sidney began Valentine's Day expecting to end the night alone, but a long day of disappointments help make room for their standing weekly laundry date to continue as scheduled only this time the...

Identical twins, Mai and Kay talk all the time; but only to each other. While they struggle to speak, they are often teased by their fellow classmates. One day, the twins decide to use their speed to stand up against the class bullies. With an...