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Marita Golden
ContentsPrologueChapter 1 "The Girl Who Flew on the Wings of Words" Chapter 2 "Pride Power Passion/The Tree of Knowledge"Chapter 3 "Biting the Big Apple Chapter 4 "Coming Home" Chapter 5…
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First Page to Finished is a book that answers all your questions about writing and the writer's life. From how to get started to how to sustain a writing practice…
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In this fiercely lyrical and revealing narrative, the author of Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues has created a work of profound and lasting importance–a book that sensitively and uniquely…
A moving African-American family drama of love and devotion in the face of Alzheimer’s disease –
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Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives-in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers…
The compelling story of three black women who meet at a New England college in the late sixties and form a friendship that will guide them through the changes, the…
In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back.
Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a…
In this work peppered with Postcards from the Color Complex, reminiscences of some of the author’s most powerful experiences, Golden takes readers inside her world, and inside her heart, to…
From the author of the critically acclaimed Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World comes an anecdotal and visionary look at single motherhood.
Naomi Johnson is the spiritual and emotional center of both the novel and her family. After marrying to get away from her sharecropper father’s house, she leaves North Carolina in…
Following Long Distance Life , the author returns with a story of modern Black America conveyed through the friendship of two women. It is the story of Jessie Foster, a…
"Marita Golden, a prominent interviewee of Oprah Winfrey, wrote this mental and physical health guide for women to learn who they are, to set healthy boundaries, and to jump into…
Empower Your Sons Against Institutionalized Racism
"One of the most important pieces of literature for Black parents."-MJ Fievre, author of Raising Confident Black Kids
A powerful guide to navigate the…
This book unpacks the myth of the strong black woman who is never allowed any weakness and the health impacts, both physical and mental, of living in a skewed culture.
When a police officer pulls over a young man for driving without his headlights on, he mistakes the man’s cellphone for a gun and fatally shoots him. The officer descends…
In this lively collection of essays, Golden has brought together 14 African-American women, each presenting a piece of nonfiction that explores the contemporary Black female psyche. A strong collection of…
Marita Golden,Susan Shreve
Candid, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and…
A stellar collection of works from more than 50 hot names in fiction, Gumbo is a literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1995 –Title page verso.
This groundbreaking multicultural anthology shares moving personal stories about the impacts of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Contributors include: Edwidge Danticat, Julie Otsuka, Meryl Comer, Greg O'Brien, Dr. Daniel C. Potts, Sallie…
Nella Larsen
In this collection, readers rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s. Nella Larsen’s subject is the struggle…
It is 1968 and everything about being a Black woman in America is changing. A society once walled off has begun opening doors. Against this backdrop, three young women meet…
Arica L Coleman
In the Matter of Black Lives: Womanist Prose by Arica L. Coleman is a brilliant, energetic, and energizing meditation on Black history, American History, and the past decade of tumultuous…
These essays examine how the history and legacy of structural racism underscore contemporary American life.
