Autor: Herb Boyd

In 1964, Malcolm X made two trips to Africa and the Middle East. During those trips, he kept copious notes. This remarkable document, The Diary of Malcolm X El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964, is compris …

Hailed by critics as a long overdue portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it, Pound for Pound is a lively and nuanced profile of an athlete …

NAACP Image Award Finalist: "Boyd’s riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World …

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Baldwin’s Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924 …

AFRICAN HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory of the Pharaohs and Towers of Zimbabwe, the cosmology of the Yoruba, the courage of the Masa …

No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy from Chicago whose body was battered beyond recognitio …

Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to Am …

Barack Obama’s campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy. Beginning as a special issue of The Black Scholar, this probing collection illustrates the impact …

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois’s influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent B …