Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black AmericaIn this book, Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style.

"-- Publishers Weekly

With retribution on her mind

Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder

Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation

Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other

Salt the Water is a book about dreaming in a world that has other plans for your time

you'll be nodding yep yep

After she loses a classroom competition because she won't speak up

'-Leigh Bardugo In his adult novel debut

and heartbreakingly romantic debut novel that unfolds via vignettes

and she just hasn't had time for romance

If anyone guesses they're not for real