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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions

A window into the world of accomplished Nigerian women, illuminating the challenges they face and the risks they take.

Playing Their Games
Playing Their Games

While interning at a law firm, Yoshi Lomax discovers a secret society fueled by limitless desires and, armed with secrets…

The Two Lives of Sara
The Two Lives of Sara

A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee.

On Rotation
On Rotation

Ghanaian-American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the Perfect Immigrant Daughter: enroll in an elite…

If I Survive You
If I Survive You

A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon…

Big Girl
Big Girl

For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school and her painfully proper mother are…

On the Rooftop
On the Rooftop

A mother's dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives.…

Dele Weds Destiny
Dele Weds Destiny

Three Nigerian women, friends since their university days, are reunited in Lagos for the first time in thirty years.

Nightcrawling
Nightcrawling

A young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.

Something Good
Something Good

When three women find their lives inextricably linked after one terrible mistake, they must work together to make the…

Take My Hand

A Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients.

Black Girls Must Be Magic
Black Girls Must Be Magic

Discovering she's pregnant--after she was told she may not be able to have biological children--Tabitha throws herself…

Cherish Farrah
Cherish Farrah

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black…

Promise Broken
Promise Broken

Two teenage girls struggle to survive their senior year in the Brick City of Newark, where gangsters battle for power,…

 A spy in the struggle
A spy in the struggle

One successful lawyer must decide whether to put everything on the line to right the deep inequities faced in one under-…

The Unbroken
The Unbroken

Touraine is a Sand: one of many children kidnapped by Balladaire and raised to be soldiers willing to live and die for…

 When stars rain down
When stars rain down

After the unthinkable happens, the black community simmers like an unwatched pot. Can there be peace with the white folks…

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be

Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the…

Letters to My White Male Friends
Letters to My White Male Friends

Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism.…

We Need New Stories
We Need New Stories

A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice. 

Better, Not Bitter
Better, Not Bitter

An inspirational memoir that serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Salaam of the Exonerated Five.

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