Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper's Ferry as...
The Legend of the Black Mecca Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black...
Racism A Very Short Introduction
From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism...
The Wealth Choice Success Secrets of Black Millionaires
Approximately 35 percent of African Americans had no measurable assets in 2009, and 24 percent of these same households had only a motor vehicle. Dennis Kimbro, observing how the...
Our History Is the Future Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life".In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota,...
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody The Making of a Black Theologian
James H. Cone is widely recognized as the founder of Black Liberation Theology — a synthesis of the Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the spirit of...
The Last Thing You Surrender A Novel
Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?Pulitzer-winning journalist and best-selling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great...
Stone Free Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967
A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first audiobook to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive...
In the Valley of the Shadow
In the Valley of the Shadow is a short story about a delirious man having hallucinations while being hospitalized.
The Deacons for Defense Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense...
