Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest, including our contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing its title from one of America’s foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration.Murch exposes the devastating consequences of overlapping punishment cam...

With only 5.8% of CEO positions in the S&P 500 held by women, it's clear that there are more women who deserve a seat at the table than actually have one. In No Explanation Required!, Carol Sankar gives you the strategies you need to create the success you deserve—today.Loaded with real-life examples and backed by proprietary research, No Explanation Required! coaches you on how to speak up for yourself, stop debating your decisions, and eliminate "limiting" langu...

Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind…New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s.Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with an absentee mother meant that they had to have each other's backs. Now young, smart mothers they are determined to survive in New York City while raising their two sons, who have brigh...

He came searching for his mother. What he found was something far more explosive, along with a second chance at family.Basketball star Osei Wharton has everything: fame, wealth, and the kind of future most people dream about. But none of it quiets the ache left by the mother who gave him up. When his search leads him to Sese, he believes he’s finally found her.He’s wrong.

The halls are decked for holiday romance in nationally bestselling author Rochelle Alers's latest book in the Bainbridge House series!Christmas dinner's on the tableServed with a side of romanceExecutive chef Viola Williamson has to have the kitchen up and running by the time the Bainbridge House restoration is complete. Working closely with Dom Shaw, Viola is struck by her hotter-than-mulled-cider attraction to her family estate's handsome caretak...

A folklorist chronicles the history and lore of witchcraft in the Keystone State from William Penn's seventeenth century witch trial to twentieth century occultism.As English and German settlers migrated to Pennsylvania, they brought their beliefs in magic with them from the Old World—sometimes with dangerous consequences. In 1802, for example, an Allegheny County judge helped an accused witch escape an angry mob. But Susan Mummey was not so fortunate. In 1934, she...

Diamond. Noelle. Vanessa. As Cyrus Grey recovers from a near-fatal shooting, the women who each thought they were his only wife are fighting hard to make new dreams—even if it means going one dangerous step too far . . .On trial for Cyrus's shooting, Diamond is determined to clear her name—and get back the husband she still loves. But uncovering the truth will reveal more secrets than she ever imagined. And unexpected desire is bringing them all too close to home . . .Beaut...

Five years after the death of Pastor B.C. Wilson, Lady Rita Wilson has forged on with excellence and grace, as the heart behind Graceway Dallas where her son Camden serves as pastor with beautiful wife Amber by his side. But Rita’s grace is tested when the late Pastor Wilson’s former mistress, Delores Cunningham, writes a book detailing their affair and claiming that she was the backbone Graceway.To take attention away from Delores, during Thanksgiving dinner, Lady Rita hatches a p...

AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS!*2020-2021 One Book One School Book of the Year***Purple Dragonfly Book Award First Place Winner**Should Sophie Stand Up to the School Bully or Become a Snitch?There's nothing worse than being a tattletale...That's what 10-year-old Sophie Washington thinks until she runs into Lanie Mitchell, a new girl at school. Lanie pushes Sophie and her friends a...

AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS!This entertaining, illustrated, middle grade chapter book is the series opener.Sign up for the spelling bee? No way!If there's one thing 10-year-old Texan Sophie Washington is good at, it's spelling. She's earned straight 100s on all her spelling tests to prove it. Her parents want her to compete in the Xavier Academy spelling bee,but Sophie wishes they would buzz off. That's until her irritating ...

AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS!Only Losers Don't Have Cell Phones...That's what Sophie thinks in the beginning of this hilarious and heartwarming, illustrated chapter book about fitting in. She feels like an outsider because she's the only one in her class without a cell phone, and her crush, new kid Toby Johnson, has been calling her best friend Chloe. To fit in, Sophie changes who she is. Her plan to become popular works for a while, ...

For as far back as she can remember, Fatima Ward has been told that she would be a doctor. She has never challenged that path and secretly fulfills her love of telling stories online. While working on a fanfiction story using real-life rapper Jericho, she finds comfort in a new reader as her personal life implodes around her. Jericho was born Jaren Young in Brooklyn, New York. Basketball was his first love, but an incident in college ripped that dream from him. He turns to his gift of writ...