"I see that as such a powerful testimony, since you're not just singing a song but also telling a story, and it's your own story."Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas-a city split not into two, she would argue, but into three. First, of...

"I see that as such a powerful testimony, since you're not just singing a song but also telling a story, and it's your own story."Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas-a city split not into two, she would argue, but into three. First, of...

In Bitch The Story of Precious Cummings the Movie Edition, you are reintroduced to the femme fatale of the streets. In this updated revised version, you enter the world of a cunning woman who came from nothing but was determined to have it all. At a...

Even before the hit TV show whose name she inspired ever aired, Ms. Abbott was a larger-than-life figure. The teacher who put the "Abbott" in TV's hit Abbott Elementary is just as serious about education-and caring-as the show is funny. In her classroom,...

"The definitive book for collecting and decorating with ethically sourced African wares." (Essence) Travel with Ugandan American designer Nasozi Kakembo as she explores iconic home goods--from Malian mudcloth to Moroccan rugs--at the source and offers...

In the summer of 1889, the lives of three African American sisters are upended when they are abruptly sent away from their parents and the only home they've ever known in a small, impoverished Louisiana parish to go live in the backwater with their...

A powerful, step-by-step guide to help your child foster strength and resilience when faced with racial stress. Has your child experienced racial aggression, bullying, or harassment? Have they been discriminated against in the classroom, in...

On The Outside Looking In is about how I came to view the American Experiment through my own experiences and that of black people around me. It is not a complaint, although there is some of that in this book. It is more of an observation of life, or an...

Bailey is a diva on the move, she is taking the San Diego Oilers by storm as their new Public Relations intern. With her career on the rise, she has little time for romance and zero interest in the antics of players who keep the Oilers name relevant...

Nearly four years have passed since the events of Rootwork (the first book in The Conjure Series), and the youngest Conway sister, Pee Wee, is now thirteen years old and on the cusp of magical greatness. Ever since the tragedy of 1889, she's worked...

Yvette is a forty-one-year-old woman struggling to cope with losing both parents during her twenties-one to terminal disease and the other to life's complications. Over the years, she learned to repress the pain of watching her mother die and the...

She is, ever, on the precipice of psychosis... a pariah wading anonymously through the barren trenches of urban America. Graduation months away, she's just trying to make it out from under the suffocating dysfunction of her perilous existence. She is...