A haunting novel set in early 19th-century Louisiana, Susan Straight's "A Million Nightingales" (Pantheon, $24.95) is the tale of a slave girl's journey — emotional and physical — from captivity to freedom.

Bill Garrett was the Jackie Robinson of college basketball. In 1947, the same year Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, Garrett integrated big-time college basketball. By joining the basketball program at Indiana University, he broke the gentleman's agreement that had barred Black players from the Big Ten, college basketball's most important conference.

When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B…

A 1992 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that 49 percent of African American women…

Raised in the segregated South, Ezell Ware was determined to excel beyond the lines drawn by White…

A 1992 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that 49 percent of African American women…

In "Uptown and Down" (NAL paperback, $13.95), Jennifer Anglade Dahlberg's fiction debut, a fast-track couple experiences the downside of living the high life in New York.
Nora Deschamps is an editor at a chic women's fashion magazine. Her husband, Jeff Montgomery, owns an independent record label that's becoming a megabucks hip-hop phenomenon.