Cultural Literature

This is the story of a man whose hands ended the life of eight fellow employees as well as his own. What kind of a man would do such a thing? The reader will be surprised to learn the answer to that question. Authors Son grew with strong convictions. Did...

This is the story of a man whose hands ended the life of eight fellow employees as well as his own. What kind of a man would do such a thing? The reader will be surprised to learn the answer to that question. Authors Son grew with strong convictions. Did...

The Village Girl Grew UpBy: Roselidah Obunaga From her humble beginnings, Roselidah was always determined to dream big. Her faith and the support from her late parents served as catalyst into the person who she is now. Since her youthful age and growing...

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest--rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China...

The twenty-first century finds black people in America wanting much like they did in the twentieth century. Whatever it takes to effectuate the necessary changes imperative for blacks to positively move forward must be adhered to immediately; if not,...

The twenty-first century finds black people in America wanting much like they did in the twentieth century. Whatever it takes to effectuate the necessary changes imperative for blacks to positively move forward must be adhered to immediately; if not,...

Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends--including The Hook, The Spider in the Hairdo, and The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs--and provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution...

Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. by product, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and...

Follow the journey of a Khmer woman who, as a young girl, faced unending obstacles in order to survive. She saved her family from almost certain death as they escaped the Khmer Rouge regime and traveled to the Thailand border. She managed to keep her...

Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South Africa, for its part, was controlled by a regime of...