Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on EarthFrom the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists, a fictional meditation on power and greedat once a literary hoot, a whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption. In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menkas hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon

the racing capital of the world

But when a friend convinces him to enjoy an evening at a jazz club

One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis

When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend

Jamaica’s crown jewel is Nu Kingston—a retro futuristic metropolis where gang lords control hordes of zombie-like addicts with a drug called Spice

Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk

sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties

The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing

A photographer as well as a poet

In All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes

This is a tender story

he learns that his younger brother has dropped out of school and fled to Libya to pursue the dream of finding work in Europe