Cultural Literature

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...

*Green River College's 2018-2019 One Book Selection* Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked...

n her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin Magic Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.  On November 7, 1991, basketball...

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is one of the world's most successful athletes, and has dominated the women's decathlon for many years. With this book, Jackie discusses how she has overcome her difficult early years to rise to the top.

On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. The captured shooter,...

If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection. Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity--childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an...

"A fascinating, authoritative biography of one of the most commercial, controversial, and influential musicians of all time" "In his three decades-long of recording, Prince has had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist...

LIMITED AUTOGRAPHED COPIES AVAILABLE Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he...

From the man who changed music, here are the stories behind the songs. Over the last three decades, one legendary music producer and record man has transformed the business, discovering and producing some of the greatest acts in pop music history,...

The most important producer of the decade. The New Yorker Timbaland is indisputably one of the most innovative music producers working today. The Grammy Award wining producer, rapper, songwriter, and composer has collaborated with the mega-superstars of...

It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965), and "Roots "(1976). They...

The Cultural Matrix" seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the...