African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, fil

Contains sixty-six alphabetically arranged entries that profile African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and briefly describes the

An encyclopedic reference of African American history and culture.

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.