Short Stories & Anthologies

What makes life work? I have often asked that question. And how do you go from living in a ghetto in a small 5 room house with 5 kids and parents, to living in a suburban house with 5 bedrooms and a pool? How do you go from being a downcast minority to...

In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology" of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black...

The African American community of Wichita is as old as the city itself, dating back to early pioneers, cowboys, and business figures. Once relatively integrated, Wichita became more segregated as the 20th century unfolded. In response, African Americans...

People of African heritage have traveled to Monterey since the 1770s, when African Spaniard Alexo Nino, a ship's caulker, traveled with Fr. Junipero Serra to Monterey via the San Antonio. For centuries since Nino, black men and women migrated to the...

This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring. The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely...

Jabarius and Tameesha have been collecting African American baby names for more than twenty years from all over the United States.The authors now live in Tennesee, but have lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, and Arizona. They love to...

There is a growing interest in books by writers of African origin. These authors have often grown up or passed their early adult years out of Africa. The Orange Prize for Fiction was awarded in London 2007 to Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's Half of a Yellow...

Men, open your eyes and see. See her beauty. See her as an individual, a unique woman different and distinct from all other females. She has appeal and strength not defined by her appearance. Her money does not label her nor does her pretty eyes. She...

Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation's circumscribed public discourse on race. --New York TimesFrom the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character and White Guilt...

The Black Age of Comics. This is the term coined in 1992. With the emergence of Milestone Media, Brotherman, Tribe and other entitles in the early nineties, the presence of the African American in sequential art could not be denied. In 2015, diversity...