Product Description: Lost in Language and Sound is a vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange: language, music, and dance. In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The team that created the Coretta Scott King Honor title, Ellington Was Not a Street, examines the life of Dr. King's wife, Coretta, who was a civil rights pioneer in her own right and continued her husband's mission after his assassination...read more

Product Description: A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange―language, music, and dance.In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay...read more

Product Description: A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange—language, music, and dance.In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman, and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay...read more

Product Description: Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America’s most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century.From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family’s journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead...read more

Product Description: “If there are shoulders modern African-American women’s literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theatre and literature with her iconic work for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in the 1970s...read more

Product Description: “If there are shoulders modern African-American women’s literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theatre and literature with her iconic work for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in the 1970s...read more

A theatrical celebration, in verse and prose, of being female and black incorporates the triumphs, joys, griefs, and losses of black women in America

Product Description: From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country...read more

From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family’s journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real - life sisters Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and Ifa Bayeza, award - winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her good - byes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as fortune - teller and seamstress. Eudora marries, and the Mayfield line grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.

Product Description: Ntozake Shange's most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three ''colored girls,'' three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams...read more

Product Description: Ntozake Shange's most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three ''colored girls,'' three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams...read more

The renowned playwright, author of for colored girls who have considered suicide, offers a lyrical coming-of-age novel, set in 1957 in St. Louis, about a teenaged black girl who endures the trials of school integration. Reprint. NYT.

A literary and visual narrative on the identity and representation issues being faced by today's African Americans features photographs and poetry to challenge media stereotypes and share insight into twenty-first-century black life.

Product Description: Poetry

A poem from a poet's first collection of poetry evokes a heartfelt homage to the community of talented artists that frequented her childhood home and is enhanced by the artwork of the illustrator of Please, Baby, Please.

Twelve-year-old Lucie-Marie and her older sister Annie Sharon attempt to deal with the death of their mother in a rodeo accident, while hoping to follow in her footsteps as championship riders.

An introduction to the legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali, including his accomplishments as a fighter and his contributions to society.

A compelling testimony to Muhammad Ali's courage, resilience in the face of controversy, and boxing prowess presents the story of his life, from his childhood in the segregated South to his meteoric rise in boxing to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.

In 1957--the year in which school integration stirred both Blacks and whites--in St. Louis, thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown encounters the awkwardness, responsibilities, and the elusive promise of romance of adolescence

A collection of short stories, essays, and poetry from such writers as Dorothy Allison, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Janice Mirikitani, and Rafael Campo

From a renowned playwright, artist, and novelist comes a delectable collection of recipes celebrating African-American cuisine and portraying the dynamic origins of the recipes, from the slave ships of the Middle Passage to the jazz of Duke Ellington.

Presents one-act plays inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets from American playwrights, including Eric Bogosian, William Finn, and Wendy Wasserstein (view table of contents)