by Arthur/ Rampersad, Arnold Ashe

The late tennis champion, social activist, and AIDS victim tells his remarkable, courageous story from his career as a black tennis player to his battle against AIDS. 150,000 first printing....Read More

Publication Date: Jul 1993

by Langston Hughes

Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1995

by Arna Wendell Bontemps

Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 1992

by Eric Walrond

Finally available after three decades, a lost classic of the Harlem Renaissance that Langston Hughes acclaimed for its "hard poetic beauty."Eric Walrond (1898–1966), in his only book, injected a profound...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2013

by Richard A. Wright

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son...Read More

Publication Date: May 2008

by Richard Wright

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2005

by Richard Bruce Nugent

An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2008

by Alain LeRoy Locke

An interpretative anthology that acted as a manifesto for the Harlem Renaissance defines the artistic and social goals of the New Negro Movement of the 1920s.

Publication Date: Mar 1999

by Richard Wright

Originally published in an emended version, Lawd Today! is now available in a fully unexpurgated edition, as the author intended that it be read. An authoritative new text, based on...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 1993

by Langston Hughes

Publication Date: Aug 1997

by Langston Hughes

This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of t...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1997