Education

Deval and his wife Diane, who is also a lawyer, have a couple of college-aged daughters, Sarah and Katherine. Here, he talks about his autobiography, “A Reason to Believe.”

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Over ten years in the making. Manning Marable’s MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention draws from multiple untapped sources and will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove…

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Anybody who thinks that the medical establishment’s secret exploitation of African-Americans in the name of science ended with the notorious Tuskegee Experiment of 1932 has another think coming. Those familiar with the book Medical Apartheid are well aware that such nefarious practices have persisted to the present.

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Whenever I’ve interviewed Janet Jackson, I’ve always had the sense that I was speaking with a very grounded individual for someone who was born inside the bubble of celebrity and has lived her whole life in the limelight.

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Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world’s largest bookseller, last week announced that it will celebrate Black History Month with special events and promotions recognizing the significant contributions by African-Americans to the world’s social, political and economic development.

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The son of a doctor and teacher became the first African-American to graduate from Stanford Medical School, the first African-American resident and surgery professor at Yale and later the first black department head at Harvard’s teaching hospitals.

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Johnson Publishing Co. has sold its historic building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue to Columbia College Chicago, the company has announced. It has not yet selected a new home and is to remain in the building for 18 months.

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The latest contribution to the burgeoning relationship advice books genre is this how-to written from the female perspective by a couple of cutie pies who have a bone or two to pick with comedian Steve Harvey’s best seller on the subject.

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Biddle and Dubin hope to rectify that ignorance with their new book, “Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America.” Temple University Press officially published the book on Wednesday, Sept. 22. To mark the event, the authors spoke that evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia…

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Two of the most prolific authors of erotic fiction sat down for a book reading and interview at North Philadelphia’s Art Sanctuary last Friday night, they were talking not about female empowerment, but about the ultimate in sexual subjugation: the trafficking of girls as young as 13 for sex.

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