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

A best seller of its time, Olaudah Equiano's story of his life as a slave in the second half of the eighteenth century continues to this day to aid...

Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She has been awarded many literary and academic honours, including the Pu...

Mask Up31 Day Devotional is a powerful anthology of testimonies by women of faith fromall walks of life. Compiled by Pastor Angela Johnson, this bo...

"A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday." --VultureAhead of its time, Trouble i...

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist,...

The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between...

Zora Neale Hurston's tragic 1926 play Color Struck is a thought-provoking commentary on colorism within the Black community. Set in Florida in 1900...

A Stage Play Tribute to Nina Simone, Howard Thurman and James Weldon Johnson.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781515092841 Media Type: Paperback Publicatio...

Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such ...

A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange--language, music, and dance. I...

The first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952), Alice Childress occupie...

Alice Walker explores the struggles she's had with art, motherhood, illness, and relationships, as well as reveals details from the controversy in ...

Fucking A is an otherworldly tale involving a noble mother, her wayward son and others. Hester Smith, the revered and reviled local abortionist, ha...

On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one ye...

A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again....

From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes a one-man show that chronicles his life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsb...

Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award winner Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) delivers the stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set ov...