Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey fro
A compilation of African-American poetry captures the voices of the black experience in works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Ishmael Reed, and other distin
Alone after his mother’s death, homeless in a Minnesota winter, young Gordon struggled to stay in school, working at menial jobs and riding streetcars all night to escape the cold. Refusing to succumb
