A 110-year-old black woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.

"In May 1862, Robert Smalls, a slave and ship's pilot in Charleston, South Carolina, crafts a daring plan to steal the steamship Planter and deliver it, along with the crew and their families, to the Union blockade. After risking his life to escape slavery, Robert faces an even more difficult challenge: convincing Abraham Lincoln to enlist black troops. Based on a true story, "Steering to Freedom" tells the powerful and inspirational story of a young...

"The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans--the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and...

Effia y Esi nacen en Ghana durante el momento algido del comercio de esclavos a traves del Atlantico. Comparten la misma madre, pero sus padres pertenecen a dos grupos etnicos diferentes, los fante y los asantes, ambos victimas, pero tambien complices, de los colonos britanicos que se dedican a la trata de personas. A las dos hermanas les aguardan destinos opuestos. En catorce capitulos magistralmente enlazados, la escritora narra la historia de las...