The first scholarly consideration of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright’s life

A study of the complexities of intimate relationships among slaves on plantations, in towns, and on small farms

A critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz derived “vernacular” aesthetic

Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class

A history of how African American churches produced political firebrands in a call for civil rights and justice