Author: Michelle T. Johnson
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: black, person, guides, workplace, guide, working, success
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1556525109
ISBN-13: 9781556525100

This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every black American to evaluate his or her options-from getting hired to getting fired, from adjusting one’s attitude to suing an employer. Tips are offered on how African Americans can fit their styles, mindsets, and history into the workplace, and insight is provided into how best to deal with situ

Author: George Jackson
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: george, jackson, letters, prison, brother, soledad
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1556522304
ISBN-13: 9781556522307

A collection of Jackson’s letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson’s letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America’s prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson’s story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.

Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: africa, black, precolonial
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1556520883
ISBN-13: 9781556520884

This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.

Author: Steve Jacobson
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: baseball, america, integrated, players, jackie, torch, carrying
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1556526393
ISBN-13: 9781556526398

The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 through 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents. Stories include incidents of white players who gave up promising careers in baseball because they wouldn’t play with a black teammate, the Georgia law that forbade a black player from dressing in the same clubhouse as the white pl

Author: Frank Tenaille
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: music, african, popular, years, fifty, weapon, future
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1556524501
ISBN-13: 9781556524509

From the unique voice of Salif Keita and the hard funk of Fela Kuti to the poignant blues of Cesaria Evora and the upbeat swing of South African township jazz, African music has shaken the planet. This book traces its history through 30 portraits. Instead of offering biographical summaries, Tenaille plunges straight to the deepest, most intimate, and most significant aspects of the life and work of each musician. In a compact form, this retrospective imparts all the information essential to understanding these complex pop stars, while putting them in a political and cultural context and spicin

Author: Gerald M. Boyd
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: times, york, new, race, black, power
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 155652952X
ISBN-13: 9781556529528

“An inspiring and riveting tale.” —Patrik Henry Bass, Senior Editor, Essence  After a career of many firsts, journalist Gerald Boyd became the first black managing editor of the New York Times. But the dream ended abruptly with Boyd’s forced resignation in the wake of scandal over Jayson Blair, a reporter who had plagiarized and fabricated news stories.  A rare inside view of power and behind-the-scenes politics at the nation’s premier newspaper, My Times in Black and White is the inspirational tale of a man who rose from urban poverty to the top of his field, struggling against whit

Author: Carlos Moore
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: life, bitch, fela
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1556528353
ISBN-13: 9781556528354

African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance, and when he died of AIDS in 1997, more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like, this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he could unswerving loyalty?  Carlos Moore’s unique biography, based on hours of conversation and told in Fela’s first-person vernacular, reveals the icon’s complex personality a