In "Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King" (Fortress Press, $17), the first biography of Coretta Scott King, written by her friend Octavia Vivian, the reader meets a determined young girl who grew up in Alabama and worked her way through Antioch College only to discover that she was not allowed to teach in the White schools in Ohio.

"The Impatient American" (Dorrance, $26) is the engaging tale of author "Mr. Pat's" experiences while working and living in the Third World.

Portland author Augusta Grimm makes her debut with "Meadowsbrook: When the Well Runs…

With her latest novel,"The Untelling" (Warner paperback, $13.95), Tayari Jones paints a…

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…