Cultural Literature

'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.' - Robert Peston' I loved reading about your childhood and your anxieties as a father. The personal is so well mixed with the analytical. Thank you for...

An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired collection of photographs and profiles celebrating the style of African Americans age 50+Long inspired by mature adults daring to express their creativity and individuality through their style choices,...

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical...

Empower Your Sons Against Institutionalized Racism"One of the most important pieces of literature for Black parents."--MJ Fievre, author of Raising Confident Black KidsA powerful guide to navigate the challenges of raising families in turbulent times. In...

Ignore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create increased opportunities for all.

An incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever. "if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a sermon/let it be my granddaddy's sermon/my grandmother's foottapping/steady rocking/choir singing" --from "This Is Not a New Age" First...

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker's first collection of...

The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca   Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in...

A radical new vision of the nation's founding era and a major act of historical recovery Featuring more than 120 writers, this groundbreaking anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity of Black experience in the turbulent decades of the...

This collection examines the applicability of contemporary expressions of Afrofuturism to the fields of Africana studies, cultural studies, and other areas of academic inquiry. The essays within this book identify the twenty-first-century expressions of...

Looking for a unique and captivating coloring book that combines science fiction and fantasy themes with stunning grayscale portraits of Black women? Look no further than this one-of-a-kind coloring book, which features intricate, AI-generated...