Cultural Literature

"...his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information - and opinion - into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn't afraid to interpolate such generalizations and speculations...

Weaving through African American music, folklore, and mores, A Newark Childhood is a coming-of-age story that journeys from the author's years in kindergarten through high school graduation. It covers the period from 1948 to 1961 when he heads off to...

There is a growing interest in books by writers of African origin. These authors have often grown up or passed their early adult years out of Africa. The Orange Prize for Fiction was awarded in London 2007 to Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's Half of a Yellow...

A New Constitution for a Free People was influenced by the United States Constitution. It includes adjustments to how each branch of government should function and additions and changes to the Bill of Rights. The author's primary goal was to create an...

As violence erupted in her once idyllic village in southern Sudan, Adout Goi Ungua fled all she had known to get her children to safety. Her remarkable journey from that small village to a shining city upon a hill reassures readers that the American...

REGIONAL BESTSELLER Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high...

Gwendolyn Wilson Dean is a Dallas, Texas born author. She is the author of A More Perfect Way, a written project designed to provide a personal learning experience suitable for developing character and qualities relative to superior social status or...

Gwendolyn Wilson Dean is a Dallas, Texas born author. She is the author of A More Perfect Way, a written project designed to provide a personal learning experience suitable for developing character and qualities relative to superior social status or...

A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy. Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and...

Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one...

"A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation."--Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School "Provides important context for an...

In her debut poetry collection, fantasy author MéShelle Fae takes readers and enthusiasts on an autobiographical journey to share the lessons and moments that have most influenced and shaped her. Within her poetry, which reflects her unique voice by...