african american women

Portrays the lives of four black women who lean on each other while waiting for the right man to come along.

Examines the social status, responsibilities, and opportunities available to African-American women in nineteenth-century New York, discussing how male civil rights leaders encouraged women to remain domestic, and describing the Africa-American women who sought employment outside of the home.

A memoir in which Condoleezza Rice, who served as National Security Advisor and as Secretary of State during the George W. Bush administrations, looks back over her life, discussing her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s, her career in education, and her service in the government, and sharing stories of her family.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Presents a biography of a famous biracial American Halle Berry, an academy award winning actress.

Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".

Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.

Presents eight short stories revolving around young African-Americans, from little girls in a Brownie troop to a young man who accompanies his father to the Million Man March.

Presents the authorized biography of Althea Gibson, the first African American to compete in tournament tennis examining her childhood in Harlem, champion of the all-black American Tennis Association, 1950 debut at Forest Hills, and victor at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1957 and 1958.

Presents cautionary information for African-American women on obesity along with guidance on losing weight for health, discussing the psychological aspects of obesity in African-American women; health risks including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, respiratory illness, and joint disease; and diet and exercise.