"Mom's strength, bravery, and cancer diagnosis are explained through a fierce little character--'The Afro Soldier.'"--

You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned U

A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.

The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent development