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Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window...

Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies is the first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from Alice Walker and the Combahee River Collective, this book is vital to today's conversation on race and gender in America. With an afterword from Salon columnist Brittney Cooper.

Coeditors Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith are authors and former women's studies professors.

Brittney Cooper...

Praise for "Guernica Annual #1"

"A stellar collection of the best of "Guernica," with voices from the fringes, important, probing Q&As, and overall, nonfiction writing that shows us who we really are today." "Flavorwire"

""Guernica"'s first-ever print edition celebrates] a decade of being the baddest online-only lit mag on the New York City block." "Bustle"

"The world, that terrible heaving gorgeous impossibility, is to be found shining in every edition of "Guernica."" Junot Diaz

"Guernica Annual #2 "is an anthology of the best features, interviews, fiction, poetry, and daily"...

Camouflaged Sisters chronicles the courageous path of fourteen women who overcame various internal and external struggles during their military careers. These veterans give open accounts of how they adapted, achieved work-life balance, relied on their faith, and used mentorship as a vital tool in their success pre- and post-military career.

Expect to be inspired by black women who fight for our homeland, while simultaneously battling to protect and preserve the assets most important to them. If you're entering, serving or transitioning back into civilian life, this...

"This collection of Douglass's speeches in Brooklyn displays the power of the former slave's oratory before, during, and after the Civil War. Editor Hamm, a professor of media studies, places a selection of carefully reconstructed speeches in this slim volume, and gives useful context on...

The Solution is an intentional blueprint and 21st-century handbook designed to help today's African-American community achieve long overdue Unity, Justice, and Repair. Unlike many books tackling such complex subject matter, The Solution is an easy read, carefully crafted to engage the reader with its conversational tone, shocking truths, and bold remedies. This handbook is strategically divided into three focus areas, for optimum effectiveness: Mind-shift, Fact Disclosure, and Solution Action Steps. The purpose of this handbook is to take the struggle of Africans in...

We see their strong, determined faces in uniform. We see their unceasing exhibition of honor and courage while protecting our country. But there is something we don't see: victims of the system--the system with the mission to protect all people of America, including its servicemembers.

In Camouflaged Sisters: Silent No More, twelve women strip away all comfort and protection to share the struggles they've faced, not on the battlefield, but instead in places they never expected--in their homes, in their barracks, amongst friends. These are the stories of sexual trauma,...

For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an...

Kwahule's theater delves into both the horror of civil war in Africa and the diasporic experience of peoples of African origin living in Europe and the "New World." From the split...