Product Description: Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee is published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition of the same title organized by René Paul Barilleaux and Roland L. Freeman, assisted by Robin C. Dietrick, originating at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, November 20, 2004 – January 30, 2005...read more

Product Description: The Mule Train, about 150 people in twenty mule-drawn wagons from Marks, Mississippi, was determined to make the nation aware of the plight of America's poor. The Mule Train is commemorated in this collection of photographs by Roland Freeman and others accompanied by excerpts from local and national newspapers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the wide variety of roles that quilting plays in African American life, including physical, spiritual, cultural, and historical roles (view table of contents)

Product Description: A stunning photo essay commemorating Margaret Walker's poem, "for My People." Beautiful and moving tribute to Walker.

Product Description: Few American cities, save Baltimore, mix history, art and commerce in such equal measures and invest in what many might call fairly mundane matters so much symbolic importance. Such is certainly the case with Baltimore's arabbers - the mysteriously named horsecart vendors whose trade represents at once the capillaries of the city's complex food distribution system, a generations-old system of informal apprenticeship for young black men in commerce and the streets, and the symbolic reach of a small-town past into Baltimore's big-city present...read more