Cultural Literature

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their...

The uplifting story of the valiant Tuskegee men and women whose impact on Philadelphia during World War II will surprise even the most avid armchair historian.At the outbreak of World War II, Philadelphians heeded the call, including

This book honors the Tuskegee Airmen, known as the "Red Tails" who never lost escorted bombers. Read the personal account of a fighter pilot who overcame segregation in Europe and the United States.

This book honors the Tuskegee Airmen, known as the "Red Tails" who never lost escorted bombers. Read the personal account of a fighter pilot who overcame segregation in Europe and the United States.

Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country. Or at...

Turn the Lights On is based on fatherless urban youth trying to find their way through life. This includes being involved in the drug game and witnessing murder at an early age. The title Turn the Lights On is reference to the youth living life in the...

This stunningly illustrated and intimate book--composed of Tupac's own words--is in many ways the autobiography Tupac Shakur never got to write. This richly illustrated companion to the Academy Award-nominated documentary film, Tupac: Resurrection brings...

Tupac: The Modern-Day Messiah is a courageous attempt to connect the late Tupac Shakur's intricate lyricism and profound interviews into a variety of societal flaws including, but not up to, racial oppression, police brutality, and economic inequality...

Tupac: The Modern-Day Messiah is a courageous attempt to connect the late Tupac Shakur's intricate lyricism and profound interviews into a variety of societal flaws including, but not up to, racial oppression, police brutality, and economic inequality...

Try Walking in My Shoes as a Black Man on Planet EarthBy: Kenneth E. Murrey Sr. Not for the faint-hearted, Try Walking in My Shoes as a Black Man on Planet Earth is the autobiography of Kenneth E. Murrey Sr. Murrey spares no details as he shares the hard...

In former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart's highly anticipated book, Truth: The Kordell Stewart Story, Stewart opens up about his often-discussed personal life, the thrills and challenges that he experienced in his football career, and...

In this book, author Pamela Rose Toulouse provides current information, personal insights, authentic resources, interactive strategies and lesson plans that support Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners in the classroom. This book is for all teachers...

In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating...

In Trumping the Race Card-A National Agenda: Moving Beyond Race and Racism, author and diversity consultant Rodney Patterson provides a thought-provoking examination of race and racism in the United States, which invites us to consider several questions,...

John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare...

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Chandra Manning casts in a wholly original light what...