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Four one-act plays: Experimental Death Unit #1; A Black Mass; Great Goodness of Life; Madheart. Deal with the Black experience as LeRoi Jones has witnessed it. Written in poetic form.
These pieces, which span the years from 1960 to 1965, cover subjects ranging from Cuba to Malcolm X to street protests and soul food.
Early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation.
Four one-act plays: Experimental Death Unit #1; A Black Mass; Great Goodness of Life; Madheart. Deal with the Black experience as LeRoi Jones has witnessed it. Written in poetic form.
These pieces, which span the years from 1960 to 1965, cover subjects ranging from Cuba to Malcolm X to street protests and soul food.
Early stories from the poet, playwright, and provocateur, infused with jazz and informed by racial alienation.
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
Nikki Giovanni dedicates Those Who Ride the Night Winds to "the day trippers and midnight cowboys," the ones who have devoted their lives to pushing the limits of the human condition and who have shattered the constraints of the status quo to live life as a "marvelous, transitory adventure."
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.
Notes is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin’s own search for identity as an artist, as a Black man, and as an American.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day is one of the most poignant and intorspective of all Giovanni's collections. Moving from the emotionally fraught political arena to the intimate realm of the personal, the poems in this volume express a conflicted consciousness and the disillusionment shared by so many during the early 1970s, when the dreams of the Civil Rights era seemed to have evaporated. First published in 1978, this classic will remind her readers why they were first drawn to Nikki Giovanni and enthrall new readers who are just now coming to these timeless poems.
Musings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Vintage anthology of the works of thirty leading contemporary Black poets.
Poems from Johari Amini, S. E. Anderson, Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Ronda Davis, Jackie Earley, Mari Evans, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Mae Jackson, Norman Jordan, Gylan Kain, Kali, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Don L. Lee, Felipe Luciano, Clarence Major, Amus Mor, Larry Neal, David Nelson, Arthur Pfister, Clarence Reed, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Welton Smith, Richard W. Thomas, James W. Thompson, Askia Mohammed Toure, and Quincy Troupe. Includes short bios of poets at rear. Artistic Consultant Imamu Amiri Baraka.
Comedian and civil rights activist offers his views on American history and race relations in the United States.
An eyewitness account of the Civil Rights movement from one of it's most colorful figures.
Shocking interviews from the Civil Rights era.
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity—and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace.
Tar Baby
Suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between Black men and women, white men and women, and Black and white people.
Beloved (with promotional movie slip)
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Song of Solomon
At once a romance of self-discovery, a retelling of the black experience in America that uncovers the inalienable poetry of that experience, and a family saga luminous in its depth, imaginative generosity, and universality.