BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

This one-of-a-kind collection of poems about the American South ranges over four centuries of its dramatic history. The arc of poetry of the Sout...

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 ...

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

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

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple,...

Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala's family's experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining in...

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...

Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life's different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a perso...

A Misguided Thought revelation into the light is the second addition of "A Misguided Thought" not only set with the same Tone & Passion but Lik...

Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born ...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters ...

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ...

The first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine. In their bold ...

African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about the...