Short Stories & Anthologies

The beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer in this collection of stories and essays. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark...

The most comprehensive collection of writing by and about African-Americans ever to appear in one volume Never before has such an impressive and far-reaching mix of writings by African-Americans been gathered together into a single anthology. Combining...

Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature--and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The two-volume Library of America...

For generations, African Americans have enriched South Carolina's history, and the black families of Chesterfield County are no different.During slavery, many African Americans in Chesterfield County were forced to provide domestic services and labor to...

A powerful collection of more than 60 of the most politically and socially inspiring letters that have changed the world and the way we see it We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be...

Only a fraction of what is known about Madison's earliest African American settlers and the vibrant and cohesive communities they formed has been preserved in traditional sources. The rest is contained in the hearts and minds of their descendants. Seeing...

For the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, here is a collection of writings that charts our nation's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil. It's an inspiring moral and political struggle whose evolution parallels the...

Some of the most exciting writers in and from Wales consider the future of Wales and the UK and their place in it. What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural), some of the foremost Welsh...

"Emotional range without consequence," debut essayist Negesti Kaudo writes, is a privilege of whiteness. In Ripe, she fights back, exhorting readers to follow her through fury, grief, love, and hope as she confronts what it means to own her Blackness...