A glamorous and sumptuous celebration of Black female artists, actors, entertainers and writers of the 20th century

The threads of Billie Holiday's mystique are unraveled in this study of a woman who needed to create art at any cost. Griffin liberates Holiday from stereotypes

“To me, an object that was once the height of elegance but is now a bit battered has far more allure than something brand new.” Pearl Lowe in The Daily Tele

Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guises—its challenges and its victories, it

In the United States at mid-century, in an era when there were few opportunities for women in general and even fewer for African American women, Jackie Ormes bl