"When Alice Jones, a blue-color woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard 'Kip' Rhinelander, the son of one of New York’s most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society—and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her 'Negro blood' and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals,...

"In an elegant palazzo on the Grand Canal, an American ambassador’s tryst turns deadly. In the seedy underbelly of London, a pub-crawling killer is on the loose. And in a storybook chapel nestled in the Cotswolds, a marriage made in heaven turns to hell on earth. Isolated incidents? Or links in a chain of events hurtling towards catastrophe? A shadowy figure known as the Dog is believed to be the ruthless terrorist who is systematically and savagely...

"Much has been written about Alberta King's son Martin, Louise Little's son Malcolm, and Berdis Baldwin's son James. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. Berdis, Alberta, and Louise passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning. These women drew from their own experiences to push their children toward...

"When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals--but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can't help wondering what happened to the hopeful, confident, driven women they used to be--and how to get them back.Radio personality Raina, known as 'the black Delilah,' hates the wholesome persona that's made her a success. Doling out syrupy versions of her grandma's wisdom feels worlds...

"How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator’s ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a poem or story or character? How do Black writers,...

"When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women’s consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women’s civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature,...