Cultural Literature

High-Rise Observations and Secrets of a Doorman offers some insight into the ways in which some among us chose to live our lives, others who find themselves trapped in the complexities of life, some who create their own complexities, and some who strive...

Winner of the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"Moving and inspiring.... Hart's memoir, especially his description of meeting his now-adult son, is deeply honest and often painful. And his account of the ways in which scientific evidence...

FINALIST -- 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Memoir"Johnson's moving work offers a welcome sense of solidarity and commonality to its readers." -Publishers WeeklyKristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did...

"If you're a fan of the hit show Empire and its characters Cookie, Lucious, Hakeem, Jamal, and Andre, then you have to check out Terrance Dean's provocative memoir Hiding in Hip Hop. Dean writes a compelling story about black gay men in Hip Hop and...

Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, where six members of a tight-knit Black family were killed by a white mob of the "best men" in the district...

Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, where six members of a tight-knit Black family were killed by a white mob of the "best men" in the district...

Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home.These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive...

Boston is one of America's most historic cities, but it has quite a bit of unseen past.Riotous mobs celebrated their hatred of the pope in an annual celebration called Pope's Night during the colonial era. A centuries-long turf war pl

In Hidden Heroism, Robert Edgerton investigates the history of Afro-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian War to the present. He argues that blacks in American society have long-suffered from a natural coward stereotype that...

The best features, articles, and interviews from the highly sought-after art magazine Hi-Fructose. Hi-Fructose is an amalgamation of emerging, and established artists, with a spotlight on awe-inspiring spectacles and developing counter cultures from...

She was born in Washington, DC, to a very low-income family, a time in which the '80s introduced drugs to their area. She moved to Virginia, where less black people resided, and had to figure out a lot on her own. Facing verbal abuse, she later became...

Many of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C.Men and women, black and white, operatives and freedom seekers - all demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and initiative. Leonard Grimes, a fre