Cultural Literature
The Minister Primarily
A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou,...
$27.99
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a ShadowMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a...
$26.00
This Life
This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a...
$18.00
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their every twist and turn” (Publishers Weekly starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for Brittle Paper, The Millions, and The Rumpus, penned by a finalist for the...
$16.00
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018
A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits.When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award...
$30.00
Always Unique: The Unique Stories
I: With only two hundred dollars, Unique packed her suitcase and headed to New York City for a brand new start. It's there that Unique meets big time boxing promoter, Kennard, and it is love at first sight. After nine...
$22.99
First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder (the Cartel Publications Presents)
Juliette (Jewels) Madison is on trial for the brutal murder of her husband Marcel Madison. Whether or not she killed him is not the question, because she was found soaked in his blood. What her high profile defense team must...
$15.00
Goon (The Cartel Publications Presents)
When five-year-old Roman s mother is murdered before his eyes in Fayette, Mississippi he is left alone with his loyal dog, a blue nose pit-bull named Ice. Things appear to look up for Roman when Billy Bob Adams, a career...
$15.00
The House that Hustle Built
Beg, Borrow, or Steal.Worlds collide when a car thief and a self-proclaimed entrepreneur meet. Pearla is a born hustler, and Cash was born to steal. Pearla sets her sights on Cash and motivates him to take his petty crimes to...
$14.99
Mama Black Widow (Original)
Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes of escaping the racial bigotry andeconomic injustice of the South, Otis' family journeys north from their plantation...
$16.99
Murdergram
Knock, Knock. Four broke girlfriends go into a Long Island church looking for a job. Four trained assassins come out. The Cristál Clique is born when these young killers are immersed in the intense underworld of murder-for-hire.But with youth comes...
$14.99
Prison Throne (the Cartel Publications Presents)
Rasim Nami, a Sunni Muslim, denies his religion and Pakistani background to fall in line with American customs. When it is determined that his father is a part of the militant group responsible for the 9/11 attacks, he experiences a...
$15.00
Raunchy (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Neighbors considered seven year old Harmony Phillips, her father Cornell Phillips and her mother Estelle Pointer, to be upstanding citizens in their quiet little estate at Concord Manor. They turned a blind eye to the lavish lifestyle they lived, compliments...
$15.00
Shetani's Sister
From the multimillion-copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneer of hip-hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in Los Angeles' meanest, toughest streets. Here is the newly discovered novel by Iceberg Slim, the creator and undisputed master of...
$14.95
Silence of the Nine (the Cartel Publications Presents)
Evil breeds evil. After Kerrick Khumalo s wife is murdered in their home, he migrates from Africa to America for better opportunities. But his thick accent and dark skin makes him unaccepted. Unable to find legal employment, he discovers that...
$15.00
Tears of a Hustler
'Ali is a drug dealer slash business man who tries to change the way the game is played by giving back to the community. But at the same time he has to keep a close eye on his childhood crime...
$24.99
The Teflon Queen
Angela is a renowned assassin "only" known by the name "the Teflon Queen". Her lethal grace, steady shot, and unmatched accuracy have made her the absolute best and most sought after killer in the game. But when the killer without...
$14.99
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
“There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today’s United States.” ―H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African-American writer's brutal and lyrical...
$16.95
The Police and Excessive Use of Force
Publisher: Brightpoint Press Pub Date: 02/01/2024 "Black Americans are disproportionately affected by police violence. One central part of the Black Lives Matter Movement calls for an end to this violence. The Police and Excessive Use of Force examines the history...
$30.95