As an initiate of both Yoruba and the Western Mystery Tradition, El Obatala is a reliable guide for people who want to create their own eclectic magical rituals. He combines Eastern and Western magical systems in his rituals, for they have similar...

  .   For Michael Todd Thomas Jr., an creative entrepreneur, navigating an industry full of barriers and gatekeepers has been the only way to capture his dreams. His unorthodox and often improvised approach to the creative hustle has granted...

While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about...

Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one-of-a-kind coal mining town created by the Consolida

A successful African American woman in a small urban community fights falling in love with a well-known successful businessman. Both must fight society's expectations, unexpected prejudice, and community loyalties to succumb to everlasting love...

From a bright new voice in African American women's fiction comes a sexy, scandalous, and scintillating novel set in steamy Atlanta. Stacie Long thinks she's God's gift to men and she keeps a list of qualities (phat ride, freak in bed...) that she's...

With photographs and stunning illustrations from acclaimed author-artist S.D. Nelson, this thrilling double biography juxtaposes the lives of two enemies whose conflict changed American history: Crazy Horse and George Custer In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy...

They are writing down their feelings to put into the civil feelings jar, scuttling with amendments asking for an ultrastrength, longer-lasting solution homes, names, and host categories renegotiated. I've been exhausted my entire life --from Sonnet (18)

Cradles is a collection on the nature(s) and nurturing that cradle us. Womb, the first section, is the first cradle, both 'nature' and 'nurture', under-acknowledged and often unmentioned. Beyond the grand and intricate physical womb of individuals, there...

Racism is a condition that affects the whole human race - the entire human family. More than fifty years have passed since the Civil Rights Movement, yet here stands America, still struggling with the issue of race. But that can change if we have the...

In the follow-up to the bestselling urban novel Crackhead, a new boss takes over the South Bronx as Laci and Dink try to make a life away from crime. In Crackhead, the South Bronx Bitches, an infamous drug ring, promoted lies, betrayal, and disloyalty...

Lisa Lennox transports readers to the heart of the crack era--the South Bronx, New York City, 1989. In the late 1980s and early 90s, the crack epidemic swept through inner city communities like the plague. Mothers abandoned their children and took to the...

Vampires don't fall in love. Except I did. Not the best decision of my long life. I definitely cracked an unspoken line, but Ariana trounced me as far as line-crossing went. Very few acts constitute crimes in Vampire circles. Hers was the worst. I fled...

Chris Miller a/k/a Brown, an intelligent man who started out making fake IDs as a teenager, has moved to the next level with his business. Chris has stolen credit and credit cards using alias names. He meets a young computer geek, Octavius, who has no...

With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last twenty-one years. From Baltimore, Maryland, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Iowa and Japan, Crabcakes...

Haythem Kemway must be found.Scarecrow, struggling against his injuries, is on the hunt.In the aftermath of the Core's breach, the search is underway for a kidnapper, a terrorist, a killer. Bugorra, brako, and Talkers alike seek what they hope will...