Collection of interviews with sixteen African-American writers, including novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights, discussing race, gender, and their work.
Tells the story of three friends from the inner city of Newark, New Jersey, who made a pact in high school to find a way to go to college and become doctors, and who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to achieve their goal, and inspire others.
Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between old friend Mademoiselle Madeleine and her husband's Creole mistress Angelique Crozat, and ends up being one of the last people to see Crozat alive.
Relating his fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, a poet and journalist describes his yearning, and that of other African American men, to escape this destructive cycle to achieve personal security and happiness.
Presents the saga of the African American Merian family set in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. Newly freed Jasper Merian sets out to build a house for himself and his two sons, one a slave and the other free. Jasper and his wife succeed in building the Stonehouses estate which is passed on through three generations of Merians.
An ex-convict must deal with a rogue cop who is terrorizing the neighborhood, even as he tries to stay out of trouble and establish a meaningful life outside of prison.
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.
Collection of narratives about African-American men who rose from modest beginnings to achieve positions of prominence in a variety of fields, including James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, and Louis Farrakhan.
