If We Should Ever Question Life
Life is war and we know that That is why we are here to fight Life is about survival; that is why we are here to live and do it…
Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo
Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning’s marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn’t beat her!), Esi holds fast….
Award-Winning Doctor’s Affirmations to Her Daughter in Crisis Released in New Book
Cheryl E. Woodson, M.D., has been a practicing physician for almost four decades. However, nothing in her practice prepared her to deal with her daughter’s life-threatening illness. Every day for…
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
It is set in 1960s Nigeria and follows the story of Ijeoma, a girl growing up in war-torn Nigeria who must come terms to term with her sexuality and the…
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents’ jewelry to pay for passage…
For Those Who Listen When Courage Calls
i) Addressee This is for those who stand beside and not behind,a leader without support is a bell without a clapper,is a thunder with no bass.This is for Minnie Baldock,…
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother’s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being…
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up…
African Tales (One World, One Planet) – by Gcina Mhlophe
This African collection is beautifully illustrated with hand-sewn embroidered artwork decorated with African beads on a silk base. The eight tales are from Ghana, Senegal, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Sudan, Swaziland…
Empress Coils by Lynn Graham
Kendolyn loved everything about herself except her hair. “It’s too coarse, too big, too hard to comb, too coily.” It’s just too much! 10-year-old Kendolyn has decided that the perfect…
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their…
New Book Explores Hair, Self-Confidence and Standards of Beauty for Black Girls
Denver, CO — The ongoing debate between permed and natural hair in the Black women community has left many Black women and girls questioning the very crowns on their heads. To…
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random…
Seychelles My Island Home
I was born in Mahe, where the sun first touched my faceI took my first breathe and the spices of Seychelles flowed inside my bloodThe wind blew from the Indian Ocean…
I Can’t Breathe
(In Alton Sterlings name…..) Did Fanon know, so many years ago that this world would be ablaze with fire When he stated, ‘we revolt simply because, For many reasons, we…
THE AKANS: Birth of Two Kingdoms (Part One – Fa-atsewfo)
Through a historical sketch that depicts the traditional practices and beliefs of the Akan speaking people of modern Ghana, the play recounts the migration of the Akans from a geographical…
Freedom is Walking
It is spoken man is born equal and freeTo a degree the world disagreesSome foresee what others cannot seeFreedom is walking away with glee We have a right to Christmas…