Cultural Literature

New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of America's most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West's penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon...

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 "[Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth."--Rolling Stone An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family,...

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled...

**ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROLLING STONE** The captivating memoir from "the emperor of intergalactic funk" (NPR) and most influential pop artists of our time--known for over forty R&B hit singles--George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic...

This new resource assembles 129 Black artists and their magnificent works, highlighting their important contributions to art worldwide. Beginning with the Brooklyn-based artists active during the Works Progress Administration years and continuing with...

Bronzeville was once America's most vibrant Black community--next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the streets of Chicago's South Side. Not much is left. A few sound recordings, memories passed down from...

SHOCKING...JAW DROPPING... Adults called him DIABLO! His addictions started by age 6! Leon wanted to be like other kids; he wanted to be normal, he wasn't! BROKEN...A gripping tale of a lost and damaged kid that will take you on a powerful, emotional,...

In Broken Soul, the author tells the story of her mother's alcoholism, and fanatic love for her father; which nearly destroyed her entire family from the late 1940's to the present. She believed that her baby brother suffered the most, and was also let...

- The first monograph on the work of the pioneering art collective- A must for anyone with an interest in contemporary art and design, street art, or Middle Eastern cultureOver the last two decades Broken Fingaz have won international acclaim, emerging...

I am a survivor with an extensive history with domestic abuse, who speaks candidly and writes transparently about my journey. I say what victims and most survivors aren't willing or able to say. Victims are afraid to speak out. They don't have the...

Expert ananlyis and first-hand accounts of combat during the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879: Nyezane, iSandlwana, and Khambula. As seen in the movie Zulu, starring Michael Caine, Zulu discipline and courage overcame British firepower at iSandlwana, and almost at...