From the award-winning author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf comes Ntozake Shange's extraordinary novel Liliane, about a woman learning to be who she really is."A daring portrait of a black woman artist re-creating herself out of social and psychological chaos, the fragmentation that haunts our time, our nation. Ourselves."- Los Angeles TimesThrough the polyphonic voices of Liliane Linco...

Three artistic Black sisters from South Carolina search for their way in the world in this novel from the award–winning playwright of for colored girls . . ."A jubilant celebration of womanhood—as moving as the moon . . . pure magic." — The Kansas City StarNtozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is...

Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for ne...

"This bittersweet tale of 7 generations in a family . . . weaves together essential historical facts and profound emotional truths. . . . glorious in its scope." — Booklist (starred)Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family.Opening dramatically at Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotto...

When you read this, there will be machines that can answer almost anything you ask them — faster than I can, faster than your teachers can, faster than you ever will.In an age when so much can be generated, a father sits down to hand his daughter the things no machine can live for her.A Verse of Your Own is not a parenting manual or a how-to. It is twenty-six letters — written to be read at six, at sixteen, and at sixty — from a father to his daughter, on ...

Compiled in China in the fourth–third centuries B.C.E., The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to penetrate society and turn every man into a diligent tiller and valiant soldier. Creating a "rich state and a strong army" will be the first step toward unification of "All-under-Heaven." These ideas served the state of Qin that eventually created the first imperial polity on Chinese soil. In this new translation, The Book of Lord Shang's intellectual bol...

San Francisco is the endgame of gentrification, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers at just over 3 percent. The Robeson Justice Academy opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city, with the mission of offering liberatory, social justice--themed education to youth of color. While it features a progressive curriculum including Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde, the majority Latinx school also has the district's highest suspen...

Winter blankets the wreckage of the world. In the snow-covered ruins, four children scavenge for supplies to feed their dwindling group of survivors. Four, because Ian is gone – captured or killed by the mechanical death squads that hunt them all. SAM, his robotic guardian angel, has left as well. And without Ian, without his optimism, the survivors are losing hope. Until, one day, they recover the electronic device that their friend had built to communicate with SAM…

GMA**’s 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September**Ms. Magazine**’s September 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us****The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black femin...

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFrom the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.In this stirring collection of more than sixty...

An award-winning writer brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains in the American South."A lyrical coming-of-age novel." — New York TimesSet in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Ntozake Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family ...

Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America.From the first publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in 1967, to Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, collaborations between writers and photographers have been important in A...