During the heady days of the 2008 election cycle, playwright Rudy Paschal struggles to create a new theater that reflects a contemporary Black aesthetic using the iconic figure of Robert Johnson and the last days of his life. His girlfriend, Janet, a...

Sometimes you need to let go of the wheel and see what happens. A coming-of-age story with a twist: When Malcolm thinks he has found the woman of his dreams, he is forced into reevaluating his beliefs and preconceptions while exploring the meaning of...

Superstar athlete, Dellonzo (Roadrunner) Fletcher is used to winning. He has a beautiful wife, two children and a dream home. When he's cut from his team he contemplates suicide assuming he has nothing else to live for until another man steps into the...

I was born in the years of the baby boomers. At this time, it was the years of segregation. We were poor people, if one would compare those times to today. Now, we would have been considered poor, but no one knew it then as everyone in the community was...

River Rules is a small-town suspense novel with a deep heart and powerful conscience. What the housing bubble didn't break in Bridgeville, a small New England community blessed by the Connecticut River, greed, double-dealing and rapid-fire change just...

In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and...

Sometimes a family grows from the most unlikely of friends. A lonely little girl living with a strict stepfather and mother. A woman just released from prison, seeking a job and a new purpose for her life. An aging matriarch with a sense of humor and a...

River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the...

While Africa is the continent on which human life began, it is also a continent that has been invaded throughout the history of mankind. Christianity was firmly established in North Africa by the third century CE only to be extinguished when Islam...

As the reigning Queen of Radio, Ritz Harper has managed to out, ridicule, jack up or mess over everyone and anyone, from hip-hop stars to high-class snobs--so she's decided to take her career to the next level: Hollywood, baby! Decked out in Chanel from...

Rita Washington, 17, is a wise-beyond-her-years African American street raised young lady who acts as the provider for her 8-year old sister Diamond Washington because her mother is strung out on heroin. After she nearly loses everything dear to her...