The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood
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
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Black Bull, Ancestors And Me by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
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
Lover’s Choice by Becky Birtha
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
Say Jesus and Come to Me by Ann Shockley
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
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | One of the very earliest paperback Lesbian novels published in America.
Sight Specific by Dionne Brand; A. Space
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
Their Own Receive Them Not by Horace L. Griffin
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
Breaking Jaie by S. Renée Bess
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
Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson
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
Night When Moon Follows by Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Cheryl Boyce Taylor | Night When Moon Follows | Poetry, Caribbean Literature, Living with Diabetes