Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver's controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year...

In “If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls”, author Aimé J. Ellis argues that throughout slavery, the Jim Crow era, and more recently in the proliferation of the prison industrial complex, the violent threat of death has functioned as a coercive disciplinary practice of social control over black men. In this provocative volume, Ellis delves into a variety of literary and cultural texts to consider unlawful and extralegal violence...

" My name is Resilience, and I have made my decision."After a year of magical adventures, bandits, heartbreak, and a newfound sense of hope, Jean was ready to make a fresh start - but nothing ever goes as planned. When her partner Popcorn urgently requests to visit his home tribe, the Silverpikes, beyond the treacherous Spineback Mountains, Jean agrees to join him on his journey. But their travels are cut short when a freak blizzard snows over the...

Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Teducation gathers previously published and unpublished poems by Ted Joans, one of the first black poets to become involved in surrealism and an important figure of the Beat generation. This major collection of poems written over the past forty years is a significant contribution to American letters. "Jazz is my religion and surrealism is my point of view. Poetically I'm first of all concerned...