Short Stories & Anthologies

As a songwriter, James Weldon Johnson is best known for "Life Every Voice," which he wrote with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. However, during the early 1900s he was part of one of the most popular and successful songwriting teams in America. Johnson,...

As a songwriter, James Weldon Johnson is best known for "Life Every Voice," which he wrote with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. However, during the early 1900s he was part of one of the most popular and successful songwriting teams in America. Johnson,...

Originally published by Chicago's Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and now included in a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, these comics showcase some of the finest Black cartoonists. Between the 1940s and 1980s,...

After the office of the Memphis Free Speech newspaper was destroyed and a price put on her head, Ida B. Wells became an exile from Memphis, Tennessee in 1892. She went to New York City where she wrote and started speaking to large groups of people about...

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub "The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant and short....The brevity suits not just Walker's style but his worldview, too.....

FINALIST -- 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Memoir"Johnson's moving work offers a welcome sense of solidarity and commonality to its readers." -Publishers WeeklyKristie Robin Johnson has lived nearly her whole life in small town Georgia, as did...

Growth of a Single Cell captures the highs, lows, and development of the poetic talent of Nails. Through this book, Nails utilizes prose to weave thought provoking images and scenarios. His work covers a cornucopia of topics including love, politics,...

Great Collection of Tetela Proverbs on the African WisdomBy: Ambaye Albertine Tshefu, Elisabeth Mukanga Ndjeka and Albert Tshefu Empenge, Great Collection of Tetela Proverbs on the African Wisdom is a rich and charming collection of wisdom. Proverbs are...

"Every child that comes from a proper home gets morning blessings from their parents. This is a tradition. It ensures you do well in life. A wise child should cherish a parent's prayer." Iye has everything a good village girl should want - a...

"Ghetto Philosophy" has been a work in progress since the early times of my youth. During many occasions in my younger life, when I was just sitting around the house or yard listening to my grandfather and uncles as they played cards while drinking their...

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of...