Exploring Diverse Authors

Finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award New York Times bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson and critically acclaime...

When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and death. Th...

Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson h...

Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about raci...

Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Explo...

Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generati...

At the age of nineteen, Nasir Nas Jones began recording tracks for his debut album -- and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmat...

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice “A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.”—Salon Michael Eric ...

Finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award New York Times bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson and critically acclai...

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUN...