The story begins in a small, segregated, Southern town called Kipsen. Mira is friends with Jesse, her secret love, and Celine, who disgraced their town
Enchanted Jones is not your average teenager. As the oldest of four siblings, she spends most of her time babysitting and caring for them but
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body — it is heritage.” Between
The honorable and revolutionary James Baldwin approaches his book, The Fire Next Time, with an inferno-like, and an almost always irritated spirit — something you
“Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again … “ Best-selling erotica author, Eva
Crime reporter Jordan Manning accepts a new job as a television station host in Chicago, leaving her hometown in Texas behind. She becomes the only
Author Jayne Allen gives us an enjoyable and relatable peek into the life of main character Tabitha Walker, a “Black woman with a plan to
She was publicly known as Emily Doe, the sexual assault victim whose legal case made worldwide headlines in 2015. What she hoped would be an
Based on a true story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, this historical fiction novel captures the untold history of the Black women who
One campus. One psychology study. Seven psychopaths. Chloe Sevre’s off to college and she has a couple goals on her agenda, the first being to
Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee form an alliance under unfortunate circumstances. Their sons, Derek and Isiah, were happily married until someone brutally murdered them. Both
Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where the students are held to very high standards. The school’s two Black students, Chiamaka Adebayo and Devon Richards have
The Brown sisters: Chloe, Dani, and Eve —all high-spirited, sarcastic, and bubbly. This novel, Take a Hint, follows the middle sister, Dani Brown. Dani has
In 2019, Ibram X. Kendi released the book How to be an Antiracist. In the book, Kendi argues that antiracism is, in layman’s terms, an action
Talking about racism with children is hard. For many teachers, parents and mentors, finding a good way to tell a child of color that the
Chinua Achebe, the great Nigerian novelist, once said; “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
In the opening to her groundbreaking essay collection, Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom writes, “I was pregnant at thirty. Divorced at thirty-one. Lost at thirty-two.”
It is easy to write a story coming from one’s own experience. It takes a truly skilled writer to accurately record the experiences of a
Leah Johnson’s 2019 novel You Should See Me in a Crown took the world by storm. Named to multiple bestseller lists, critics praised Johnson’s debut work
Some scribes write novels. Some write memoirs. Others write graphic novels or comics. Ta-Nehisi Coates, however, writes all of the above. Author of the bestselling
