“Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught…
“During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy…
“They didn’t know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one’s life is the sum of the worst things that happened to…
“From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a…
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“When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in…
“What happens after rape? In After I Was Raped, we meet five individuals: a four-year-old girl, two Dalit women, an eight-month-old infant…
“In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to…
“A ‘choral history’ of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National…
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“Drawing upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in Washington D.C.’s juvenile court, Kris Henning confronts America’s…
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“Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out…