Category: Black Interest

Ann Shockley | Say Jesus and Come to Me | A black evangelist’s affair with a sultry nightclub singer. Hot romance.

she brought the lord’s love to all . . .

but found he

Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | One of the very earliest paperback Lesbian novels published in America.

Dionne Brand; A. Space | Sight Specific | Dionne Brand, Grace Channe, Lynne Fernie, Martha Fleming, Sue Golding, Jude Johnson, Didi Khayatt, Lyne Laponte, Nina Levitt, Stephanie Martin, Cyndra

Horace L. Griffin | Their Own Receive Them Not | Griffin, an Episcopal priest and a teacher of pastoral theology, provides a lively and fascinating examination of homosexuality in the black church.28

S. Renée Bess | Breaking Jaie | Jaie Baxter, an African-American Ph.D candidate at Philadelphia’s Allerton University, is determined to win a prestigious writing grant. In order to w

Jacqueline Woodson | Autobiography of a Family Photo | Growing up in Brooklyn during the Vietnam War, a young woman witnesses the tearing apart of her family by anger, finances, and the draft, and when her

Cheryl Boyce Taylor | Night When Moon Follows | Poetry, Caribbean Literature, Living with Diabetes

Linda Villarosa | Passing For Black | Being black, the right kind of black, was difficult. It was like being in a cult–a secret society with rules as fluid as waves… In the six years th

Pat Parker | Child Of Myself | Early collection by African American lesbian poet whose works are hard to find. First printing was by Shameless Hussy Press

Andrea Bramhall | The Chameleon’s Tale | Childhood friends Imogen and Amahle couldn’t come from more different backgrounds. One privileged and the other little more than a slave, yet they tho