Black Authors

FBI agent, Nicole Maddox and design engineer, Jamal Hayes couldn't have picked a worse time to fall in love. When Jamal writes a program to decrypt...

THE STORY OF NIOBE. Adaptations from Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Brett Rutherford, Phillis Wheatley, and Samuel Croxall. Edited and annotated by Brett...

GreedAn uncontrolled, intense and selfish desire for increase in the acquisition of material gain. It could be for social value, status, power and ...

A selection of early poetry, mostly narrative, some previously published in Iowa Review and Callaloo literary journals. Some previously unpublished...

A lyrical, ritual play that involves the "legend" of Palmares, a settlement of escaped or fugitive slaves in 17th century Brazil. Fourteen times th...

The revolution will be led by Black women who are just tired enough to do it ourselves Welcome to the revolution! In her second collection, Jillian...

Discover the rich stories of The People of Russell's Knob in the 20th and 21st centuries in "Alive Nearby." This novel by best-selling historical f...

Gather Up Yo' Fine Clothes is Langston Hughes' second book of poetry. Its launch caused controversy, not only because of its original title, Fine C...

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). The book describes his experience of working to ri...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederi...

With both the spirit and style of the original preserved, James Baldwin gives us, into a fully illustrated edition*, a new version of Don Quixote, ...

With both the spirit and style of the original preserved, James Baldwin gives us, into a fully illustrated edition*, a new version of Don Quixote, ...

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. In 1838 he escaped from slav...

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. In 1838 he escaped from slav...

James Baldwin was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Thoug...

Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages th...

Slave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the ...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for t...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Generally regarded as Nella Larsen's best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its clos...

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment ...

The 1901 autobiography of American Educator Booker T. Washington is titled Up from Slavery (1856-1915). Up from Slavery details Washington's life f...

While residing in Lynn, Massachusetts, famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass penned Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845...