Category: Books

“I ran. I ran as fast as the skirt of that stupid dress would let me. Then I hiked up the skirt, so that I could run even faster. But Cora’s shoes weren’t really designed for running. The heel broke and I fell straight into the mud puddle that I had skirted just moments ago. […]

“Since the dawn of the hip-hop era in the 1970s, black people have become increasingly freer and freer as individuals, with a wider range of possibilities spread out before us now than at any time in our past. Yet the circumstances of our collective life have degenerated in direct contrast to this fact, with a […]

“This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experienced things that he never knew to dream about as a kid. The other will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left […]

“This book tells the story of how race gets written into the definition of mental illness… The book also shows how historical concerns about racial protest reverberate through treatment institutions and… explores the processes through which American society equates race with insanity. focuses mainly on a series of transformations that occurred during the civil rights […]

“Five years ago… I knew nothing about my natural hair. It was that mess that grew out of my head… which was only relieved by using scalp-burning chemicals and hair-singeing heat. It was that unprofessional, bad, embarrassing stuff that, if I were to wear in public, would doom me to everlasting singledom and job failure […]

”Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Excerpt from My Holy Bible for African-American Children Given the recent Easter season, Christian parents might like to check out this new Bible specifically designed with Black children in mind. This edition of the “Good […]

“The women in this book have come a long way to meet you. Some of them write under a new name to protect their families. Others speak in their own name to save their lives… As you read these stories, be comforted if you are afflicted. Be clothed with the robe of many colors, the […]

“Henrietta died in 1951 from a vicious case of cervical cancer… But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a Petri dish. Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation […]

“What do black women want? The truth? They are looking for Denzel Washington. They have been so thoroughly brainwashed, that black women don’t know what a good black man even looks like… The brothers out there know exactly I’m talking about. Every time you turn around sisters say they just want a good black man, […]

“When I was a child, no one was ever proud of me, and my people were never proud of themselves or anything they had ever done,” she declared. “Well, that’s different now. I’m proud of myself, and I’m proud of my music…” – Excerpt from Princess Noire- The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone Nina Simone […]