Cultural Literature

During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as Take the 'A' Train. Yet all his life...

Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) was one of the most famous leaders of the African Independence Movement. After his murder, he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle, and his picture, along with those of Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh, was brandished around...

After suffering emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma while witnessing George Floyd's tragic demise, Dr. Debra Hobbs was forced into confronting her internal demons-specifically, hatred. While contemplating how she could move forward into the...

After suffering emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma while witnessing George Floyd's tragic demise, Dr. Debra Hobbs was forced into confronting her internal demons-specifically, hatred. While contemplating how she could move forward into the...

'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was deeply unhappy. I feel I had been deprived of love and the ability to love in return. Like Lily, my mother, I...

Algiers is the second-oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans and stretches 12 miles from Riverview to the Cut Off. A rural area, in comparison to the inner city of New Orleans, Algiers's land was cleared by African slaves, and plantation homes...

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey...

A modern Cinderella must defend her fairy-tale marriage in a scandal that rocked jazz-age America. When Alice Jones, a former domestic, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member...

Walter "Bruno" Korschek is not a famous politician, a noted journalist, or distinguished political scholar. He is an ordinary American who is disturbed by the continuous erosion of freedom in the United States. This erosion has been caused and encouraged...

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from former singer and songwriter nicknamed 'Meko' goes beyond the allure of superstar status to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop and R&B music industry. Meko's journey is...

She met him in a supermarket parking lot of all places... Sarai Jenkins. You can call her a "Born-Again Virgin". She has kept her heart (and body) tightly locked down and guarded, maintaining her celibacy - for ten years. But what she really wants is to...