Vanessa is a superb storyteller. --ReShonda Tate Billingsley I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style. She is one of a kind. --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author Teen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué...

From a former college basketball player and Executive at Nike, a "riveting" (Sports Illustrated) insider's account into the business of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that exploit young athletes and offers a new way forwardFor...

Libby loves science! In this STEM-themed picture book, a companion to the popular Cece Loves Science, Libby and her friends are put in charge of the science booth at their school fair. There's only one problem: No one is visiting their booth! Does...

When one woman is caught in the act of her greatest transgression, it's the beginning of her greatest transformation. . . It started innocently: a coincidental meeting between old high school friends--first loves--at Butterfly's business, The Painted...

The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his favorite pastime--fencing--and with his favorite sparring partner, Gabriel Hamdan, who must be enticed back from America, where he lives with his wife and his daughter,...

I was inspired to create Beyond the Rainbeau as part of my healing process after the loss of my third son, Beau. A lot of the illustrations and words highlighted throughout this book were real-life truths I used to get through those difficult times. This...

Suffer Well: Poems for the Grieving is a look inside the grieving process from Korie Griggs' perspective. Each poem was written inside the epicenter of her grief. These pages are a survival story and comfort in knowing we are never alone. Grief is...

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent...

A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and...

In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth...