Tag: African-American

SWIRL GIRL: Coming of Race in the USA reveals how a hard-headed Mixed-race “Black Power Flower Child” battles society—and sometimes her closest loved ones—to forge her identity on her own terms. As the...

Nights Over Egypt by Barbara Keaton (Reprinted with permission from Black Pearls Magazine) Two people searching for the same thing … Ashalon is a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University in Egypt and he is...

Stacey Abrams to Write Book on Voter Suppression for Holt ‘Our Time is Now’ Scheduled for June 2020 Publication Stacey Abrams, the Atlanta-based politician who rose to national prominence when she ran for...

The Designated Ones: From Jerusalem to Ethiopia by Karen Sloan-Brown It’s 2014. Grieving the loss of family members and friends killed in a plane crash, renowned megachurch pastor Priscilla Sinclair sits on her...

Failure to Protect by Pamela Samuels Young Coming October 22 2019! The author of the award-winning thriller Anybody’s Daughter is back with an addictive read that tackles bullying and its devastating aftermath. What Really Goes...

In 2019, join thousands of libraries and classrooms from across the country in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, Given annually, the Coretta Scott King Book...

*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and...

Why I Wrote About Josephine Baker by Sherry Jones (Reprinted with permission from Black Pearls Magazine) My novels tell the lives of extraordinary women in history who overcame formidable obstacles to achieve their highest...