Category: Black Interest

Staceyann Chin | The Other Side of Paradise | ‘No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on C

Shay Youngblood | The Big Mama Stories | From Publishers Weekly

These folktale-like stories, told by a young woman about her ‘mamas’–the several women who raised her following the death

Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde | Black Bull, Ancestors And Me | Describing the dichotomy of being both revered and reviled, this memoir traces the story of a sangoma–a traditional healer–who is also a lesbian. De

Becky Birtha | Lover’s Choice | From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Sharon Canning

Lover’s Choice takes the reader on short trips into the lives of eleven different women. T

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