Family & Relationships

DATE SMARTER, MAKE BETTER DECISIONS IN LOVE, AND ACHIEVE THE RELATIONSHIP YOU DESERVE... IT ALL STARTS WITH NOT SETTLING! By day, Faith Jenkins is the host of Oxygen's Killer Relationship and former host of the nationally syndicated relationship show...

Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can...

Raising Simba takes readers on a journey from the dim corners of the South Side of Chicago to the bright lights of Broadway.  The idea of starring as one of the world's most beloved characters on one of the world's biggest stages seems like a...

Terrence Jenkins--better known as Terrence J--has hosted gigs on E! News and BET's 106 & Park, and starred in some of Hollywood's hottest movies. It's a life he could have only imagined growing up in Queens, born to a seventeen-year-old mother. But it...

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an...

Finalist for the 2023 Southern Book Prize A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed--about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith--in search of the truth about her son. One morning, Tophs,...

A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do--and to suggest that we reconsider our culture's traditional views on...

From the day Jonathan Conyers was born, he has found himself in places where he wasn't wanted or wasn't expected to survive, much less thrive. When Jonathan was 14 years old, he broke into a home to commit robbery when he and his friend were caught by...

Adrian S. Potter's newest collection nimbly weaves poems, short prose pieces, checklists, film synopses, and diary entries into an arresting portrait of pandemic-era life as a Black American. Honest, funny, and hard-edged, his writings act as...

Marriage is hard work. Two independent lives are merging. Two different mindsets are colliding. Two different people are learning. But marriage can also be one of life's greatest gifts--just take it from David and Tamela Mann.The Manns have delighted and...

The Many Moods of a Woman is a poetic journey of self-discovery, and the stories told throughout these pages highlight our unique experiences within the elements of love, hurt, pleasure, and pain. Women love hard and will ride for the people we genuinely...

Between the onset of puberty and marriage, every man and woman faces the issues of being single. How do you handle the weekends alone -- or with a dating partner? How do you build a healthy relationship? How can you tell when it's the relationship of a...

From the best-selling author of Hey, Brown Girl, comes part three of a twisty, suspense-filled young adult series about grief and family with a morally gray character on the road to redemption.Sometimes the Big Bad Wolf is you . . .Still reeling from the...