If It Takes A Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and 100+ Ways You Can Too
Service is the rent we pay for living says preeminent children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman and this is the motto by which Malaak Compton Rock, dedicated humanitarian and wife of comedian Chris Rock, lives her life. From a childhood grounded in the importance of giving back to her work in public relations at The U.S. [...]
I’m a Piece of Work! Sisters Shaped by God by Reverend Cynthia L. Hale
Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale has written out of her own experience of struggle in order to help other women realize and celebrate our uniqueness, acknowledge without shame our issues and challenges, and receive healing and forgiveness.
I’m a Piece of Work Sisters Shaped by God features poetry, reflections, and Scripture, taking women on a journey [...]
Best African American Fiction
Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featuring the year’s most outstanding fiction by some of today’s finest African American writers.
From stories that depict black life in times gone by to those that address contemporary issues, this inaugural volume gathers the very best recent African American fiction. Created during a period of [...]
Loving Simone by Jessica Tilles
From the outside, Simone has the perfect life and family. However, the inside tells of a different story. After ten years of being the faithful, dutiful wife and mother, Simone desperately struggles with releasing the hidden desires of pleasure she can’t seem to get from her husband, causing her to turn to self-fulfillment and outside [...]
The Black Book
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her Child.
In 1974, Middleton A. [...]
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Zane
Brooke Alexander, a waitress who has self-esteem issues regarding her lackluster existence and her fluctuating weight, is in love with Patrick Sterling, one of the most prominent attorneys in Washington, D.C. On his good days, Patrick is the man in every woman’s dream. On his bad days, Patrick’s behavior is demeaning and he is angry [...]
Featured Book: Celebrate Kwanzaa
“Celebrate Kwanzaa” continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by families, communities, and schools throughout America. With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs, the book celebrates African-American culture and helps us to understand and appreciate this special holiday. [...]
Mrs. O: Democracy of Style
Mrs. O’s style is the manifestation of her genuine, personal point of view. It serves not just as expected clothing for the occasion, but as a creative expression of her life experiences and personal beliefs. It is a style celebrated for its ease, authenticity and approachability.
As Mrs. O writes her her chapter in White House [...]
War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier’s March Toward Redemption
By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this war story–about a war that rages on the streets of America–comes complete with child soldiers, unspeakable violence, and eventual salvation as an East Coast member of the notorious Bloods gang comes to term with what he has done and who he wants to be.
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The 50th Law by 50 Cent
