Fiction - Literary

Emma Lou was born black. Too black for her own comfort and that of her social-climbing wannabe family. Resented by those closest to her, she runs f...

Originally published in 1929, "The Blacker the Berry" is a novel by American novelist Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934). An active writer during th...

"The Blacker the Berry" is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of ...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a so...