African-American Interest

Karrine Steffans is the New York Times bestselling author of seven titles: The Vixen Diaries, The Vixen Manual, Satisfaction, How to Make Love to a Martian, Décor and...

Sandra Uwiringiyimana is the co-founder of the Jimbere Fund, a human rights activist, and the author of the forthcoming memoir How Dare the Sun Rise (Katherine Tegen...

Rose Rock, mother to 10 children, including comedian Chris Rock, and 17 foster children, is a real-life supermom. She is an educator specializing in pre-school and special...

musician, author of Dylan Goes Electric! (Dey Street Books), and historian who has published on a broad range of music and related cultural subjects. He started playing...

Pamela Newkirk is an award-winning journalist and a professor of journalism at New York University. She is the author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga...

Kristen Green has worked for two decades as a journalist at newspapers including The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Boston Globe. In 2012, she was recognized by Media...

Attica Locke is a nationally bestselling and award-winning author and screenwriter, with her focus on issues of race, Hollywood, politics, and motherhood. Locke’s first...

Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning business journalist, former writer at Fortune magazine and author of The Mocha Manual to Turning Your Passion into Profit (Amistad/HarperCollins),...

Molly Melching has lived and worked in Senegal, West Africa since 1974 and has dedicated her life to the empowerment of communities at the grassroots level. Highly regarded...

Marvelyn Brown, a 26-year-old native Tennessean, learned she was HIV-positive at age 19. Since then, she has moved both live and television audiences across the United...

Matt Birkbeck is an award winning investigative journalist who has written for the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, People, Boston Magazine, and the Philadelphia Inquirer....

Award-winning author Lois Leveen dwells in the spaces where literature and history meet. Her stunning debut novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser (William Morrow), is based...

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the New York Times best-seller Wench (Amistad), a startling piece of original fiction that tells the story of four enslaved black...

Lois J. Gaston, PhD is a veteran community college educator and administrator, and the grandniece of acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston. From 1992 to 2006, she served...

Darryl Strawberry is described as a legend by many who have been dazzled by the dynamics of his game, the power he possessed at the plate and the story of redemption...

Dr. Bob Brier has worked in Egypt for more than 30 years and is one of the world's foremost authorities on mummies. He is Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus...

Rachel L. Swarns presents a fascinating and intriguing look at America's First Family in her new book American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial...

Paula Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Afro-American Studies at Smith College, where she also serves as editor of the scholarly journal, Meridians:...