Everyone has an opinion about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Have an informed opinion. Read his story. Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most controversial icons of our time. A prominent African-American journalist on death row in Pennsylvania, he has come to symbolize...

A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a 23-foot travel trailer in tow,...

Zetta Barker Hamby was born in the Blue Ridge of Appalachia and, during a rich, rural mountain life, experienced the advent of the telephone, the automobile, electricity, radio, television and the airplane. To set down what life was like in...

“Agood place to be from.” That’s how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement. By prominent writers such as P....

After a vicious hate crime destroyed St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, in 1984, two courageous women risked their lives to organize the rebuilding effort. Ammie Murray, a white union leader, and her African American friend Barbara Simmons...

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After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by...

From catfishing in Mississippi as a young girl to battling marlin in the Caribbean, Lorian Hemingway has always felt most comfortable with a fishing pole in hand. But for many years, it was alcohol that held prominence in her life,...

Este es el recuento épico y conmovedor de una familia mexicana de migrantes, sus peripecias en Estados Unidos y las expectativas del pueblo que dejaron atrás. Escrito con pasión y compromiso, este libro narra la historia de una familia, de...

Now in paperback — published to coincide with the release of her new album — Grammy winner and #1 recording artist Ashanti shares her very personal collection of poems and stories about love.Bestselling recording artist Ashanti stormed the pop charts...