Amistad

A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the...

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination...

An International Bestseller?Over 3 Million Copies Sold! With translations in more than thirty languages, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is the definitive relationship guide for women. Steve Harvey...

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all?and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of...

Join the fight for racially marginalized people with this pocket-sized guide filled with practical insights from one of the leading voices of the movement for equality and founder of the...

New York Times Bestseller Amazon's Best Hostory Book of the Year 2018 Time Magazine?s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 New York Public Library?s Best Book of 2018 NPR?s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018...

Entertainment journalist and former senior editor at NYLON Sesali Bowen's NOTES FROM A TRAP FEMINIST: a text for the hot girl era, combining rule-breaking feminist theory, a gendered analysis of...

?Powerful characters and exquisite prose bring to life a tumultuous period of American history that still demands our attention.??Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The House Girl The...

In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the...

NAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist 2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree The author of Baldwin?s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit?a blend of memoir,...

?By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history...

Forceful and inspired, this is a rousing praise song for strong Black women.--Publishers Weekly "An impassioned celebration of Black women and their roles in transforming the nation."--Kirkus Reviews...

Joining the Ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system--from foster care to incarceration--that exposes the deep-rooted...

Come To Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, And Other Visionaries On How Sports Can Help You Top Your ProfessionAuthor: Venus Williams, Kelly E. CarterPublisher: AmistadPublication Date: Jun 28,...

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop...

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Plagued by guilt, paralyzed by shame, Jinx has spent the years since her mother's death alone, estranged from her husband,...

Defining Moments In Black History: Reading Between The LiesAuthor: Dick GregoryPublisher: AmistadPublication Date: Sep 18, 2018Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief--a woman who...

First published in 1974 and even more relevant today, a natural and whole foods guide the voice of black consciousness, cultural icon Dick Gregory, the incomparable satirist, human rights and...

A unique and timeless guide to American government and its electoral process--as relevant today as when it was first published in 1972--from the voice of black consciousness, cultural icon Dick...

Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature of habit. His trainer came to his house three mornings every week for a five-thirty workout. By...

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella...

Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often...

Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding. . . . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic boundaries to write the poems that only he could write, poems that travel time and space...

Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to...

A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent.--Entertainment Weekly "Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A...

God Lovesaitia NovelAuthor: Dimitry Elias L??GerPublisher: AmistadPublication Date: Feb 02, 2016Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0062348159ISBN-13: 9780062348159

A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl - in which...

In this bold hybrid collection of poetry and micro-flash fiction, the award-winning, interdisciplinary writer, and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black...