Non-Fiction

urbansouls foreshadows the Ferguson uprising by offering keen insight on the social and cultural situation of the greater St. Louis region. Written while serving as a youth pastor and community center director in the late '90s, Sekou theorizes on race,...

This book fills a long-standing need in literature: Voodoo, Santeria, and Macumba as practiced today in cities throughout the Western world. It is not another history or sociological study, but a candid personal account by two who came to "the religion"...

"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." --Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets FellowshipUrban tumbleweed, some people...

Survived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets.Saved by education.This is Dr. Maysa Akbar's story. A story of overcoming Urban Trauma.It's easy to look down at urban communities and wonder why economic and social disparities...

You are doing it on your exercise book, beer coasters, the bench in the park, the school toilet, in the sand, during courses or while on the phone: to doodle, scrawl, scribble or just to daub is a basic need to express our creativity and sometimes the...

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours--and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes--these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in...

There are very few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime. And even fewer who are as well respected as Bill White.Bill White, who's now in his mid 70s, was an All-Star first baseman for many years...

A "touching, heartbreaking, and exceptional" (Town & Country) coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents--set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico. Hayden Herrera's parents each married five times; following...

Prepare yourself for UPGRADED NEGRO 20.0 the second book from BROTHER HYPNOTIC. Featuring the tribute to black women SUPREME SISTA and the tribute to MICHAEL JACKSON HEAVEN'S GLAD YOU CAME. The short stories GHETTO LOVE, SPANISH HARLEM and the return of...

When you're lying awake at 4 am, it's the perfect time for those deep and intrusive thoughts to surface. For Davia and S.P., it's the opportune time for self-reflection and immersive imagination. In their first collaboration, authors Davia Chin and S.P...

We should all be forthright We must strive for what's right Be a stirring voice for the stigmatized Injustice warriors this is our fight Virtuous we should have an appetite Shared ideals we should all invite So fascinating how we are intertwined ...

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn't seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region...