Recent Releases
The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House
Features a DVD of Martin's TV One interviews with the Obamas
By Roland S. Martin
Third World Press | Non-fiction | Trade Paperback | ISBN: 0-88378-316-0 | 372 pgs.- $19.95
from Publisher's Synopsis... Noted African American journalist Roland Martin takes leaders back down the campaign trail of President Barack Obama in his latest book, ... including an interview conducted with President Obama after his win in Iowa in January 2008. Other notable interviews include Dr. Cornel West, Rep. John Lewis, Spike Lee, Maxine Waters and Michael Eric Dyson.
Step Out on Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
By Byron Pitts
St. Martin's Press | Memoir | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-0-312-57766-7 | 304 pgs.- $24.99
from Publisher's Synopsis... Throughout Byron's difficult youth. he suffered from a debilitating stutter. But Byron was keeping an even more embarrassing secret: he was also functionally illiterate. For a kid from inner-city Baltimore, it was a recipe for failure. Pitts turned struggle into strength and overcame both of his impediments. After fifteen years in local television, he landed a job as a correspondent for CBS News in 1998, and went on to become an Emmy Award-winning journalist and a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. [This] uplifting story will resonate with anyone who has felt like giving up in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships.
Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am
Discovering Your Personal Best
By Jeff Johnson
Hay House | Memoir | Trade Paperback | ISBN-13: 978-1401925482 | 216 pgs.-$14.95
from Publisher's Synopsis... Nationally known, award-winning broadcast journalist, social commentator and motivational speaker, Jeff Johnson has reached his personal best through a combination of life experiences learned and invaluable lessons taught by his mentors. These life lessons inspired him to create a powerful framework of proven "best practices" for those who need relevant examples and realistic help as they seek their own personal best-regardless of their age or life stage. Johnson dares us to make sure we aren't living somebody else's dream.
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media,
and Democratic PossibilitiesBy Patricia Hill Collins
Beacon Press | Education | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-080700018-2 | 256 pgs.-$27.95
from Publisher's Synopsis... Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins opens this brilliant new book on race and education by describing how in her senior year at the Philadelphia High School for girls ... she was invited to deliver a graduation address on the meaning of the American flag. She refused to deliver the censored version her teacher demanded... . Another Kind of Public Education spins the threads of that story--the way education, race, and democracy are intertwined; the way racism and resistance work through a variety of unspoken means; what schools do to limit or to open up possibilities--into a call for "another kind of public education," one that helps us "envision new democratic possibilities."
This Child Will Be Great
Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Harper Collins | Memoir | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-0061353475 | 256 pgs.-$27.95
Trade paperback | ISBN: 978-0061353482 -$14.99
E-Book | ISBN: 9780061868078 -$26.99
from Publisher's Synopsis... In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf--Africa's "Iron Lady"--was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African nation. In this stirring memoir, Sirleaf shares the inside story of her rise to power, including... her experiences with abuse, imprisonment, and exile; and her fight for democracy and social justice. ... By sharing her story, Sirleaf encourages women everywhere to pursue leadership roles at the highest levels of power, and gives us all hope that, with perseverance, we can change the world. racial