Cultural Literature

Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world's most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound...

Are You Living Beneath Your Possibilities? In the middle of a crisis, Wayne Chaney prayed, "Please do not allow me to live beneath the possibilities in You!" You may have prayed a similar prayer. We all have the inherent desire to rise above our...

"I'm really concerned about the state of the world. It feels like things are falling apart." "I'm worried about my family's future." "How can I stand firm in my faith in today's culture?"  Our times are turbulent ones, and questions and...

Photographer, Kea Taylor, takes us on a heartwarming journey as she shares her most beloved images from ten years of photographing African-American weddings. Taylor artfully balances her romantic images with interviews of couples from diverse...

Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. "Culture and Customs of Nigeria" is the only concise, authoritative, and up-to-date discussion of Nigerian culture that...

From growing up amidst poverty and racism to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., reveals his life inside the civil rights movement--illustrating the profound influence he had on his son Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers...

OUR FOUNDERS understood that America was the greatest experiment on earth. And they sealed it with these words: E pluribus Unum: "Out of Many We Are One."  "America is the story of us. And us isn't doing so great right now." Says award...

In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit a stirring tale of courage, strength, faith, and perseverance. In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella was wrongfully accused...

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936 2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil...

Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual...

In 1988, then struggling writer and video store worker Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali s mother s modest Louisville house, knocked on the door, and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Now, all these years later, the two friends have an uncommon...