History

In a country like America--built on the backs of diverse people--the subject of race/racism and its cancerous, miasmic climate renders certain races as ugly conditions. In The Ugly Color of Race in America, author Booker T. Williams, Jr. reveals the...

In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Immediately released under the title Conscience for Change after King's assassination, it...

Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Award-nominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most...

The young life of Daoud Hari-his friends call him David-has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world, an on-the-ground account...

In this new and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallel lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement--a trader, an owner, and a slave--are examined. John...

The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling...

At the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental...

Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action spawned an epic tragedy.On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families due to strikes on Louisiana sugar

On an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives were changed dramatically as the ensuing events became national news and for a very brief period...

The Son of the Soil: Stone Obi's The Tale of Dark Africa will open your eyes to the power of tradition and belief that exist within a people, a power that modern religion can't totally wipe away. "I want people to see who we are," writes the author. "We...

Follow Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah C. Sulunteh's incredible journey from a modest boyhood in rural Liberia to a powerful position in Liberian diplomacy. The Suakoko Boy tells Ambassador Sulunteh's story in riveting detail, as he excels in education...

A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy...