My parents lived in the town of Rockville, Maryland, when I was born on April 27, 1940. I can recall many memories of Ro......more
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Mary Prince was the first black woman to publish an account of her life in Britain-an account so brutal that few believe......more
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Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passi......more
Tributes to Charlene Mitchell from her many comrades, friends, co-workers, and supporters on her passing in 2022. In 196......more
As we grow and develop in life, things never turn out how we want or expect them to, regardless of how much money, famil......more
All Cracked Up is a story of how, through prayer, God can bring anyone back from the addiction of crack cocaine!...more
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Dillibe Onyeama was the first black boy to complete his education at Eton in 1968. Written at just twenty-one, it was a ......more
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Frederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in M......more
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This is My Story: Exploring Sexual Abuse in the African American Community By: Jennifer D Small-Jackson This Is My Story......more
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LaDonna Adrian Gaines knew she had a gift. Her voice filled her hometown church, her power to belt evident to all within......more
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Lewis Johnson is the episodic biography of an elderly African American looking back over his life as it nears its end. B......more
The story A WALK TO REMEMBER is about an African illegitimate girl (Tsitsi). She was also called a bastard or someone wi......more
In her memoir, My Life in Song and Praise, Flora Parker details eight and a half decades of her eventful life that encom......more
The REBOUND: A Reflective Journey of a Man That Got a Chance at Life’s Reset By: Utaff W. Gordon Follow one man’s daily ......more
The Day The Sky Opened To Give Me The Water I Needed: Maskarm: Speaking to Dub, Speaking through h.i.m." "We reached the......more
I did not make this journey to transformation alone. In my first book in this trilogy - The Journey - I spoke of the tri......more
First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in b......more
In My Debt to You, Elvage G. Murphy shares his personal, and honest story about how his father and mother, who endured t......more
This book is a frank and detailed telling of experiences of racism, lack of support and the challenges experienced on th......more
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) is the autobiography of Mary Seacole. Recognized for her pione......more
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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912) is a memoir by Matthew Henson. Published a few years following an expedition t......more
Sojourner Truth, one of the most revered figures in American history, explains her road to liberation, spiritual enlight......more
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply persona......more
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First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in b......more
Join Bryan and Ryan Wood, better known as the NEWMONEYTWINZ, on an autobiographical journey through a loving, yet educat......more
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Written while Nat Love was living in California, this autobiography is an invaluable record of the wildness of the Ameri......more
The Church in the United States is greatly blessed by the contributions of Black Catholics and the legacy of holiness of......more
Elizabeth Keckley’s rise from slave to White House confidante details the cruel and terrible life for those in slavery, ......more
A first-person narrative of Olaudah Equiano’s journey from his native Africa to the New World, that follows his capture,......more
The world is full of many great black men and women who changed the course of history. Because of their contributions, t......more
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First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in b......more
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the memoir of an African-American woman who struggled against the bondages of slaver......more
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