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"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.<BR><BR>This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.<BR><BR>Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."<BR><BR>"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."

Shakespeare's Othello is ingeniously transplanted into a high school setting in this taut story about teenage friendship and racial tension. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally. Luckily he hits it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard in this powerful drama of alienation, adolescence and friends torn apart.'A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue' Daily Express'New Boy, with its angsty teenagers, racial frictions and a magnificently fleshed out antagonist, is a tense and tight read... A heady rollercoaster of emotions' ObserverSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you've never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.

The unbelievable...After falling head over heels for Minister Leroy Smith and getting married, Carol Smith had no idea what she was getting into or what was in store for her future. Two years after their marriage, Leroy is called into full-time ministry and started Lakeside Baptist Church. Carol never dreamed of marrying a minister or a pastor. However, she has to find a way to support Leroy's vision and become someone she thought she would never be...the First Lady.The unthinkable...Walking in this role, First Lady quickly finds out that it is more than what she bargained for. The countless women that threw themselves at her husband, the lies and deceitful behavior to get in his ear, and being determined to take her spot. Dealing with women who judged any and everything she did and said, all while her husband is changing with the power, control, and manipulation, causing him to be seduced and succumb to the various temptations.The inevitable...While First Lady's life is falling apart, her marriage and her husband's indiscretions, her faith in God, and her instability to keep a job are all lying in the balance, and she must decide if she will continue to live with the shenanigans of a marriage or leave her marriage to regain her sanity and peace of mind...

“There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.”—New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel, now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a searing portrait of the brutality of colonialism, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle against a ruthless fate. It's now available as a special Harper Perennial Olive Edition.Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses—master and vassal—are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.Harper Perennial Olive Editions are exclusive small-format editions of some of our bestselling and celebrated titles, and feature unique hand-drawn cover illustrations. All Olive Editions are available for a limited time only.

Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved classic—a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick—available in a special deluxe edition featuring gold sprayed edges, foil, embossed lettering, and a custom foil stamp on the cover.“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly. . . . Hurston believed in the transformative power of storytelling, and she took risks with sentiment that few contemporary writers are prepared to make.”—Zadie SmithOriginally published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become one of the most important and enduring works of modern American literature. Written with Zora Neale Hurston’s singular wit and pathos, this Southern love story recounts Janie Crawford’s “ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny.”A tale of awakening and independence featuring a strong female protagonist driven to fulfill her passions and ambitions, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the American literary canon.

Chin up, now. Got to have thick skin down here.<BR><BR>In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording studio to complete an Americana album, unaware that materials in the walls are driving them to the brink of insanity. As artistic, social, and racial tensions flare, the atmosphere grows thornier, the music grows stranger, and Everglade Studio's mixture of creativity and claustrophobia demands its pound of flesh. <BR><BR>Longlisted for the 2023 BBC Writersroom Popcorn Award for Best New Writing, In Everglade Studio is a ferocious comedic thriller from Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, featuring original music by Nathaniel and Aveev Isaacson.<BR><BR>This edition was published to coincide with the run at The Hope Theatre in London, in April 2024.

'Die Welt ist nicht mehr weiß, und sie wird nie mehr weiß sein.'Als wäre es eine Nachricht von heute: Nachdem ein weißer Polizist einen Schwarzen erschossen hat, kommt es in Harlem 1943 zu Ausschreitungen. Inmitten der Unruhen trägt der 19-jährige James Baldwin seinen Vater zu Grabe. Das Verhältnis der beiden war zerrüttet wie das Land, das Baldwin bald Richtung Frankreich verlassen wird. Erst aus der Distanz vermag er sich seinem Vater und seiner Heimat wieder anzunähern und sich den brennenden Fragen zu stellen: Was bedeutet es, schwarz zu sein - in den USA und in Europa? Von weißen Präsidenten regiert, von weißen Medien informiert, von einer weißen Popkultur umgeben.In zehn Essays verbindet Baldwin Analyse und Argument mit intimen Einblicken in die Suche nach der eigenen Identität.Mit einem Vorwort von Mithu Sanyal und einer Nachbemerkung der Übersetzerin Miriam Mandelkow

Othello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello's anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story's potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello's history of contemporary reanimations, Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America takes up this question of retelling Othello's story, turning to the play as re-crafted in a time and place imagined as having overcome racial injustice: post-racial America (2008-2016). This book analyses representations of Othello across genres and media including podcasts, television, film, graphic novels and performance, and argues that these representational choices of Othellos perpetuate varying racial frameworks that advance antiblack or antiracist versions of the play. By elucidating the presence and function of these competing frameworks, it illuminates and explains how to wrestle with the intersections between Shakespeare, Othello and the American racial imaginary in appropriations, scholarship, the classroom and beyond.

Baldwins explizitester, leidenschaftlichster RomanWarum hat Rufus Scott, ein begnadeter schwarzer Jazzer aus Harlem, sich das Leben genommen? Wegen seiner Amour fou mit der weißen Leona, die nicht sein durfte? Verzweifelt sucht Rufus' Schwester Ida nach einer Erklärung, findet aber nur Wahrheiten, die neue Wunden schlagen. Wie ihr Bruder war Ida lange bereit, sich selbst zu verleugnen, um ihren Traum, Sängerin zu werden, zu verwirklichen. Beide haben ihre Wut über die Diskriminierung durch die Weißen immer zu unterdrücken versucht. Bis jetzt. Baldwin verwickelt uns in ein gefährliches Spiel von Liebe und Hass - vor der Kulisse eines Amerikas, das sich selbst in Trümmer legt.

"...WILDER GONE...is a funny, strange and provocative new play by Angela Hanks.... Set in 1921, mostly on a contested piece of property on Wilder Street in a black neighborhood still arising from uncultivated farmland... Despite its bright cheer and generally happy ending WILDER GONE really [is] provocative...insofar as hopefulness may now feel provocative. It's hard not to be moved, and challenged..."Jesse Green, The New York Times

Through Poems for the People Author Teresia Simmons' Mahogany Musings Book Series, readers explore the process of living through and overcoming pain, the experiences of being Black in America, healing past hurts and the joy of hope and love.Power and DeterminationIn honor and gratitude for our ancestors, Royal Roots is a celebration of strength, fortitude, and progress. Be empowered through the journey of Black people from ancient times through today.

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A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * NPR 1A Inaugural Book Club Pick * A 'Must-Read' by USA Today * Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize * Booklist Editor's Choice * CrimeReads' Best of the YearA suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You.“Our Best Intentions is a thoughtful, gripping suspense that shakes up definitions of family and identity in a beautiful and refreshing way!” —Kal Penn, actor and national bestselling authorDuring summer break one day, Angie, the teenage daughter of Indian immigrant Babur Singh, is walking home after swimming at the high school pool when she finds Henry McCleary, a white classmate from a wealthy family, stabbed and bleeding on the football field. The police immediately focus their investigation on Chiara Thompkins, a runaway Black girl who disappears after the stabbing and—it’s later discovered—wasn’t properly enrolled in the public high school.The incident sends shock waves through the community and reveals jarring truths about the lengths to which families will go to protect themselves. Alternating between multiple perspectives, Our Best Intentions is a gripping story about a father and daughter re-examining their familial bonds and place in the community that explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and individual lives can unravel when the toxicity of privilege and racial bias are exposed.

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Massage Ginny is composed of short stories, poetry, and proses. This book is a combination of fiction and embellished facts. Names, dates, places, events, and details have been changed, invented, and altered for literary effect. The short stories highlight topics such as domestic violence, rape, mental illness, living with disabilities, etc. These unfortunate issues are global. Although many men may be victims of abusive circumstances, more Women suffer due to patriarchal dominance. My overall goal is to inform, inspire and educate. Here is a hint about the title: if you say the words fast enough you will hear what the title describes. This has been a global pandemic for centuries. Hopefully, after it has been addressed enough more will see and begin to help create peaceful and respectful living conditions for everyone!

The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works to deal with sociology. BIO: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism- scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."The first African-American graduate of Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D in History, Du Bois later became a professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. He became the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910, becoming founder and editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. Du Bois rose to national attention in his opposition of Booker T. Washington's ideas of social integration between whites and blacks, campaigning instead for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights, and the formation of a Black elite that would work for the progress of the African American race.

Hope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature. For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. Patience lives a sheltered life within the secure walls of the family’s mansion in Ibadan, but finds no comfort from her distant father and stepmother Modupe. Her only ally is her younger sister, yet even Margaret’s love and support cannot overcome Patience’s insecurity and uncertainty.More than anything, Patience wants to know why her father and uncle banished her mother from their compound years ago—and whether her mother is even alive. Determined to discover the truth, Patience embarks on a desperate search to find her mother. Answers begin to surface when she moves to Lagos for university and unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin Kash.Kash and his friend Emeka are petty thieves with an opportunity to make a big score. To pull it off they need help—and enlist Patience and Emeka’s straight-arrow brother, Chike, to become partners in their scheme. The thieves’ plan is to quit after this job. But unforeseen events lead to unexpected consequences—and demand a price from Patience that may be too steep to pay.Suspenseful and evoking the subtleties of Nigerian life in an fresh and unexpected way, Patience Is a Subtle Thief is a heart-wrenching story of one young woman’s precarious journey to adulthood, and the risks and sacrifices it takes to follow her heart.

In this first book in a series, written entirely in rhyming lyrics, "A Conversation Between the Brothers" depicts the stories of African American men senselessly murdered by racist cops and racist individuals in general. Based on true events, this work of fiction brings the murdered brothers together in Heaven (The University) with their Creator (The Master) who closely resembles them in more ways than one. One by one the Master has the unfortunate experience and responsibility of welcoming His sons back home, albeit too soon. It wasn't His plan. As they tell their true and untold stories, the brothers vent about their own memories of how they were murdered on earth. While in the University, the brothers get to know each other through their self-created Hip Hop lyrics as well as through their favorite artists such as Jekalyn Carr, Michael Jackson, and The Great Spike Lee. This first book brings to life the stories of Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Jr., Eric Garner, and George Floyd. The end of the book finds the Master returning to earth to bring back home a very prominent African American man who had substantial experience living in a time when if you were white, you were right, and if you were black, you were expected to stand back. His job will be to educate the brothers about how life on earth was for him, and perhaps why it was the way it was for them. The brothers anxiously await his arrival and wonder............... WHO COULD HE BE?

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WHAT WOULD IT COST TO BETRAY YOUR FAMILY?Kane and the crew travel to Africa in hopes of finding his mother. The Planner, Adrian, Rick, and Noti all get on a plane together. Noti's involvement with two of America's most wanted criminals has Kane wondering why? Jordan attempted to kill Kane multiple times if things didn't go his way. Kane fears that his mother could be next on The Planner's list of victims. Kane continues to piece together his father's past, which leads him and Noti back to where it all began.