Cultural Literature

"How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and...

While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively very little attention. This...

"Touching and courageous...All of it--the man, the life, the book--is rare and beautiful."COSMOPOLITANDAYS OF GRACE is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis...

Captures the sometimes outrageous, often humorous, and always bigger-than-life spirit of the World's Greatest Pitcher, Leroy Satchel Paige This book began when the author met "the Satch" for the first time at the Twilight Zone Lounge of the Rhythm Lanes...

The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America's most explosively contentious and divisive issues--from "one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law."--The Washington Post "A clear-eyed take on America's battle...

RuPaul's Drag Race superstar Ginger Minj shares her favorite recipes, best advice, and wildest stories in this hilarious book that's part memoir, part cookbook. Perfect for fans of Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood.Drag icon Ginger Minj brings...

Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by...

We all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to continue living despite the absences we experience because...

Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"--as women who loved women were then called--crafted a queer world. In the...