Examining the complexities of the problems of black youths from an insider's perspective, an African-American journalist recalls his own troubled

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Matches the tones of the diatonic scale to the values of the color wheel in presening a portrait of the work of the Afro-American jazz musician a

Follows the life of the former slave who gained renown as a abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

This book is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving in its frankness, it is a relentless tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of

Mike Healy, born a slave on a Georgia plantation, ran away to sea winding up on San Francisco's Barbary Coast. With the purchase of the Alaska Te

Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar

The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a whit

"For more than a year, Christopher Darden argued passionately and tirelessly, giving voice to the victims in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. But

Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick de