African American & Black

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey's Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Book InformationISBN 9780452264014Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688210847Author L. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

2024 Winner! Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Meet Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he's suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he's long avoided with transformative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 and Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781559369527Author Jackie Sibblies DruryFormat...

It's Grandma's birthday and the Frasier family have gathered to celebrate. Beverly just wants everything to run smoothly, but Tyrone has missed his flight, Keisha is freaking out about college and Grandma has locked herself in the bathroom. But something...

Every kang deserves a crown Things are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, Cordell, his partner Dwayne and friends Isom and Big Charles team up again as the New Wing Order, with a new...

Grieving is weird and expensive. Jamie can’t swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she's taking on her biggest fear — the ocean. With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide, and one...

Characters: 2 male, 5 female Winner! of a 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award Winner! of The San Diego Critics Circle 2011 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Play It is Annie Desmond's sixteenth birthday and her friends have decided to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755333Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 174mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755326Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Set in Kentucky among four generations of a family losing its craft, The Stonemason is a moving play from Cormac McCarthy, legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road.'Expertly constructed and limpidly written' - Chicago TribuneBen Telfair admires...

Some things we do for those we are responsible for, some things for ourselves, and some things we do for the ancestors.Today, it's all three!1959. The first wave of independence is sweeping across Africa and Beneatha has left the prejudice of 1950s...

Through "The Hounding of David Oluwale," an adaptation of Kester Aspden's critically acclaimed text, Agboluaje uses carefully selected accounts of Oluwale's life to reveal how an optimistic and much loved showman who loved to dance, became the tragic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708718Author Dael OrlandersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369633Author Aleshea HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

1986. Ghana's prestigious Aburi Girls Boarding School. Queen Bee Paulina and her crew excitedly await the arrival of the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter. It's clear that Paulina is in top position to take the title until her place is threatened by...

The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order. Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803696287Author Gloria Hamilton-FordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710384Author James IjamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his...

A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change.Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young...

Before they were icons they were friends The world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated his world heavyweight title not by hitting the town, but in a hotel room with his three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601722Author Lorraine HansberryFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365321Author Lynn NottageFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709555Author Suzan-Lori ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"The characters are honestly observed, and the lines have wings and humor."- The New York Daily News "Truth, vividness and rich humanity."- The New York PostBook...

You may be the wealthiest colored woman in New Orleans, but you built this house on sand, lies and dead bodies.New Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana's 'free people of color' are prospering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737730583Author Kola OnadipeFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint MomasePublisher MomaseWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme throughout the summer of 2020, a response to George Floyd's murder and the unprecedented impact of COVID on marginalized groups. Theater and Crisis proposes a literary and theatrical study of how Floyd's killing...

A revised Student Edition of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic 1959 play - the first play produced on Broadway to be written by a Black woman. Alongside the play text itself, this edition contains commentary and notes by Isaiah Wooden, which consider the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452267763Author HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 10mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951028091Author Shamicka C ToneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Shamicka C. ToneyPublisher Shamicka C. ToneyWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The Black Arts Movement (1965-76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned about the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines how the Black Arts Movement provided a forum for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365963Author Dael OrlandersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

This book features new plays by Lisa B. Thompson, author of Single Black Female. In these three plays, the black feminist playwright and scholar thoughtfully explores themes such as the black family, motherhood, migration, racial violence, and trauma and...

What could be more painful than a missing child? And how might the community better support families-especially young, single mothers and their children? In Comfort Stew, acclaimed Chicago poet and playwright Angela Jackson addresses these questions in...

The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of law. The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former...

Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven adaptations of Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Trojan...