When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro…

Black and White is a definitive history of boxing’s pioneering years. Brian Dobbs exposes the racism, brutality and trickery of this fascinating era, bringing to life the fights and fighters…

Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Corsair, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group –Title page verso.

Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.

When you’re fourteen, it’s hard to be patient, especially when it’s your birthday. Yet for Anthony Brooks, any optimism for his future is shattered when his unemployed dad is killed…

Neihardt’s work has been critiqued by scholars who maintain that the author filtered and corrupted Black Elk’s teachings through a European spiritual and political lens. This book demonstrates the poet’s…

A moving account of how a chess team made up of council estate children inspired an entire working-class community to take up the game that had normally been played by…

This book considers the nature of the black ‘constituency’. It discusses the political responses of this ‘constituency’ to the race and immigration issues related to the crisis of Britain’s inner…