Cultural Literature

My life started in the ghetto of Roxbury, Massachusetts, a mile away from the drug-infested neighborhood where Bobby Brown came up. My father left our family when I was one. My mother had five children, one of whom died in early childhood. My mother...

The trip-hop pioneer opens up about his life and music Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature sound, coupled with deep, questioning lyrics, took the musical landscape by storm in the...

This powerful book gives readers a chance to experience Ethiopia through the personal experience of a writer who is both Ethiopian and American. It takes readers beyond headlines and stereotypes to a deeper understanding of the country. This is an...

Abandoned and left in an orphanage at six years of age, Eduardo was in an immediate struggle to save himself from the unjust actions his family had committed against him--and that's when Padre Testé Perez came into his life. The City of Children was an...

Try it. Right now. Picture the lights going off in the room you're sitting in. The computer, the air conditioning, phones, everything. Then the people, every last person in your building, on the street outside, the entire neighborhood, vanished. With...

Rich with sweetness and anger, strength and sorrow, Heart Full of Grace is a bounteous treasury of a thousand years of black wisdom. Heart Full of Grace contains many powerful quotes from traditional African sources, as well as African American writers,...

Since the fifteenth century, African origin people and their descendents have suffered from the evil enslavement as chattel property the consequence of which has been inner life dehumanization and suppression of their wills and skin color racism that...

Can the church help America emerge from its racist shadows empowered to heal racial divides? Church pastor and former police officer Terrell Carter says yes. While our faith inarguably calls Christians to unity, the hard fact remains: we're still...

16th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Culture We live in conflicted times. Our newsfeeds are filled with inequality, division, and fear. We want to make a difference and see justice restored because Jesus calls us to be a peacemaking and...

In November 2015, Drs. Ashok and Daksha Patel celebrated a number of milestones: fifty years of residency in the U.S., fifty years of marriage, and fifty years of practicing medicine. Healing a Broken Promise follows their fifty year journey in the...

A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit. Mythology is essential to this healing process. The belief stories...

This is a fictional story based on real life events as it is evident through an African young man that grew up in the ghetto but didn't let the ghetto grow in to him as he went on from using junk he collected from dumping sights to creating toys that...