Black & African American Biographies

Nonfiction

Ta-Nehisi Coates Tackles Race, Oppression and Global Issues in “The Message”

The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ fifth book, has arrived and its gorgeously crafted writings are incisive and provocative. In intertwined essays about his recent trips to three places — Senegal, South Carolina and Palestine — the award-winning author unravels the vital relationship between stories and our view of the world past…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 4, 2024

Nonfiction

Brittney Griner’s “Coming Home” Reveals Journey From Russian Imprisonment to Freedom

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist — Coming Home is a raw, revelatory account of Brittney Griner’s unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home, written in collaboration with Michelle Burford. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA…

BookTribMay 7, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Autobiography Follows a Path from Poverty to Faith to a Life in Public Service

“What has salvation meant to me? It has meant I have had many trials and tribulations, but God was with me making me stronger and better … It has meant everything to me.” These words perfectly encapsulate the sentiment of Frederick L. Hamilton’s gripping autobiography, The Coppinville Experience: From Poverty…

Katie BloomerNovember 16, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Pulls Back Curtain on Issues of Veteran Suicide and Mental Health

American Airman is the memoir of a young man raised in a toxic environment and seriously injured during his military service, but who remains determined to make a difference in the world. Ryan Cureton (who changes his name to Jonathon Benjamin) experiences emotional manipulation, mental distress and a traumatic brain…

Michael FerryDecember 20, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Find Out How Deep Police Corruption Runs in “Black, White and Gray All Over”

Compton, California, is a city known for gangs, drugs, gangsta rap and, at one time a murder rate 10 times the national average. Black White and Gray All Over, a memoir by Frederick Douglass Reynolds and subtitled “A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement” is an insider’s view…

Joanna PoncavageApril 21, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Flight of the Beautiful Lie” Soars With the Resiliency of a Transgender Woman-of-Color

When I embarked on reading the memoir Flight of the Beautiful Lie, I knew that it was about a transgender woman, Jasmine Christine Ford, and her transition, but I really had no idea of the scope of her story. Born James Otis Ford (nicknamed Jof) into poverty and violence, Jasmine’s…

Barbara WilkovOctober 13, 2021

Black & African American Biographies

Autobiography Follows a Path from Poverty to Faith to a Life in Public Service

Memoir Pulls Back Curtain on Issues of Veteran Suicide and Mental Health

Find Out How Deep Police Corruption Runs in “Black, White and Gray All Over”

“Flight of the Beautiful Lie” Soars With the Resiliency of a Transgender Woman-of-Color

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