African American Studies

Two hundred years ago, on a barren plot of land just outside New Orleans proper, enslaved and free black people would gather on Sundays to freely practice religions both ancient and new. It was a sight unseen anywhere else in the country. This was Congo...

Black Intellectuals offers a centuries-deep analysis of black life, beginning with the arrival of Africans as slaves, when medicine men and conjurers held ancient, powerful wisdom. Author William Banks goes on to discuss prominent figures ranging from...

Whatever your position is on Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and equity in law enforcement, former police chief Carmen Best shares the leadership lessons she learned as the first Black woman to lead the Seattle Police Department--a personal...

Black Girls Got The Juice(TM)️ is a coloring book that highlights various career fields and the Black women who pioneered in them. A fun self-care activity for kids and adults, Black Girls Got The Juice(TM)️ celebrates the history of Black...

"A literary experience unlike any I've had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) What does it mean to be Black...

The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement - Examines the letters of Prince Hall, legendary founder of the first black lodge - Reveals how many of the most...

Estrelda Alexander was raised in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, but she knew little of her heritage and thought that all Christians worshiped and believed as she did. Much later she discovered...

The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period. Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in...

Black Escape from Freedom: The Fallacy of Victimism, and Resulting Self Defeating Behavior and Avoidance of ResponsibilityBy: Colonel Vaughan Witten PhDDr. Colonel Vaughan Witten PhD brings forth a unique, relevant and powerful observation and...

Brutality of slavery and its legacy transformed a large segment of the African-American population into a state of despair through the epigenetic modification of the structure of DNA that resulted in neurobehavioral, mental, and other pathophysiological...

A compelling and prophetic work that details the environmental future of every major landmass in the world. The sacred teacher and author of The Medicine Wheel offers a compelling and prophetic work that details the environmental future of every major...

The first original work by a living author to become part of the series, Grillo captures the joys and sorrows of York City, a thriving factory town populated by emigrant cigar-makers that slowly faded away as he grew to adulthood and was absorbed into...