Nineteen-year-old Devon Torres has lived the past several years of his life dealing drugs and running the streets of South Atlanta. Separating himself from his family and clinging to his business, Devon recruits young teens throughout his neighborhood to...

Eight-time Grammy Award(R) winner CeCe Winans has broken new ground as a superstar of gospel: her celebrated career includes platinum and gold albums, collaborations with Whitney Houston, and forays into television and the Broadway stage. Now CeCe Winans...

He was everything I didn't want, She was everything I always needed. He bulldozed his way through, destroying the walls I put in place. She gave me the courage I needed to take the wheel and control my life. When we met in the clouds, we didn't know...

He was everything I didn't want, She was everything I always needed. He bulldozed his way through, destroying the walls I put in place. She gave me the courage I needed to take the wheel and control my life. When we met in the clouds, we didn't know...

Our children are in trouble. Of course, not all of them, but enough to consider that African American youth are in a "crisis of values." Many of the problems that our youth experience regardless of socioeconomic status, have their roots in the...

Agent Kal Hakala, who has been running the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation as its temporary director, has his hands full. First there was the windigo crisis that threatened humanity with extinction. Now he has received an anonymous challenge from a...

"Olokun of the Galaxy" is a poetry and visual arts book that tells the story of an African spirit of the deepest ocean. Olokun is born when Earth's oceans are born, s/he witnesses the Atlantic Slave Trade, industrial revolution and pollution of the...

Behind the walls of an unassuming house lies a macabre exhibit where spirits speak and the dead refuse to stay dead.When Oliver Crum stumbles upon an odd attraction in a neighboring city, he witnesses a grim display of blood and bone too terrifying to...

The town of Christchurch has everything: rustic houses, quaint people, and a briar patch that consumes anyone who ventures too close.After a meltdown at work, Oliver Crum needs an escape, and Christchurch seems to be the perfect destination, at first...

The Old West Baltimore community is the nation's largest registered African American historic district. The designated Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District is the commercial main street in this area. The Colored High and Training...

Childhood sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy, and her four-month-old child dying from health complications are just some of the things Belinda Williams, a 46-year-old police officer, experienced before graduating from high school. Twenty-eight years, four...

In the 1930s, young anthropologist Ruth Landes crafted this startlingly intimate glimpse into the lives of Ojibwa women, a richly textured ethnography widely recognized as a classic study of gender relations in a native society. By collaborating closely...