BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridge ...

Before they were icons they were friendsThe world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius ...

Blaze Beaumont must make a life-altering decision. She didn't intend to fall in love with the man she collided with at work. It sort of just happ...

Dominique Morisseau, a rising star of the playwriting world and recipient of the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American Hist...

“The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury…makes Appropriate land with the kind of thump you rarel...

The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth and his "old-fashioned" black teacher. Product ...

Based on the Oresteia by AeschylusIn this reworking of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Klytemnestra and Elektra face one another in a dramatic confrontation...

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] ...

Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy exploded onto the New York theatre-scene with a critically lauded production at Playwrights H...

A compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking w...

Through Poems for the People Author Teresia Simmons' Mahogany Musings Book Series, readers explore the process of living through and overcoming pai...

Life's a Fish and then you FryGrowing up as a kid in Louisiana, AJ Joiner's all-time favorite thing was his grandmoh's Fish Fry. Now that he's all ...

Malik Toole rose to the top of the drug game in the 80's selling cocaine when the crack cocaine epidemic hit. He took everything he learned from be...

Precious Kpodo has no time for things as futile as love. Nothing will derail her goal of opening a rehabilitation centre, especially a man. That is...

Marcello Marganetti had been chosen and a covenant was made with him that in exchange for his loyalty to the church, an heir would be born into eve...

This book is about a small-town African American girl growing up in the early 1950s with a great desire to have a better life. She wanted to learn ...

I was born into a loving family with a mother and father who gave me a strong foundation. My dad was in the military, educated, and well-travelled....

I was born into a loving family with a mother and father who gave me a strong foundation. My dad was in the military, educated, and well-travelled....

Rand and Rose live the life of comfort and protection under the roof of their parents, who are renowned warriors. But their life of accommodation i...

"I Woke Up Black" by Marvin Michael O'Bryant is a story inspired by real-life experiences. It follows the life of Marvin, who has witnessed decades...

This gripping thriller follows the story of Amber Stone, who narrowly survives a brutal attack outside her workplace. As Amber works alongside a ro...

"Blood on the Altar" delves into the transformative journey of Reverend Hosea, a highly regarded and prominent pastor, who finds himself ensnared i...

It portrays a deeply moving narrative centered around a young man whose promising future is irrevocably marred by an ill-fated encounter with a wom...