There was no sharper con man on the streets of Chicago than Elijah Brookes. Women were his prefer...

Odie Hawkins utilizes the same thrust, power, and creativity that made Ghetto Sketches his first ...

Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed “The Great Lawd Buddha” by his hip constituents because of his almo...

An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters. Bobo, Burks, Leo (sometimes, whe...

The deeply personal story of Odie Hawkins’s journey, from “the poorest of the poor” childhood in ...

Valonga Price takes a three-year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to di...

Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself—and write about it....

Midnight offers us a sensitive view inside the soul of a young African American gangster who is i...

Henrik Malan was the South African secret agent who devised the plan to have the Black American g...

An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters—Elizabeth, “Queen of the Projects...

Monday evening comn’ down—the dreariest day of the week anywhere, but especially in the ghettos (...

In the post–Watts Rebellion 1970s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of martial arts—Hapkido ...

Portrait of Simone is the poignant story of a young soldier stationed in the Deep South, in the r...

Chicago, the center of America’s heartland, from its founding in the late 1700s by Jean Baptiste ...