A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet Ben Okri explores the...

The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a "touching, empathetic portrait" (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more Artist, poet, actor,...

Poetry Winner, 2025 International Firebird Book AwardsFormer poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones...

After the sudden death of his wife, Cartier Richardson, a wealthy and powerful businessman becomes infatuated with Serenity Clayborn. Serenity is a master of disguise, her beauty and charm serving as her most potent weapons. With calculated precision,...

In the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book "is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real souls of black folk." Du Bois alludes to this in...

This is an abbreviated version of this introduction: It is with great honor that we dedicate this special limited edition republication of Character Building to the 50th anniversary of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, a place where the...

Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free...

Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free...

Nexus was tired of doing the same thing every day, day in, day out. Wake up. Work at the gym. Go home, have a quick meal, sit in front of a show and write. Sure, he wanted things to be more interesting, maybe switch up his gym routine, or get his career...

The Day God Saw Me as Black is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race, gender, sexual expression, and class analyses. A narrative that weaves between critique and...

Krista's Promise is a memoir that will inspire, motivate, and have you enthralled with compelling and convincing authenticated true events and stories as they happened on a personal journey through Krista's life, told in her own words. Coupled with her...

Krista's Promise is a memoir that will inspire, motivate, and have you enthralled with compelling and convincing authenticated true events and stories as they happened on a personal journey through Krista's life, told in her own words. Coupled with her...