About the BookWhen the goddess Fatima issues a decree of death by voodoo ritual to be performed on Jean Claude Valmond to Queen Laveau and Dr. John, they delegate the task to Georgina “Gigi” Poncetrain, an ambitious apprentice practitioner. Gigi instead falls in love with him and must now suffer the consequences of disobedience.GIGI chronicles the life of Jean Claude and the events that led to the decision by Fatima to terminate him up to the time he meets Gigi at a celebrati...

About the BookKellyanne and Nellyanne are two identical and indistinguishable twins. They were born in the Bronx, New York to Jerome, an alcoholic taxi driver and Marianne, an out-of-work hairdresser with terminal cervical cancer. After experiencing childhood abuse at the hands of their father and the death of their mother, one joins the police academy while the other washes out. Kellyanne becomes a renowned detective while Nellyanne leads a life of crime. Their worlds collide when ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...