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Alice Childress's groundbreaking 1955 play that examines racism in the theater industry.

As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play, Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognised place in American drama. Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, the plays collected here are the ones Childress herself believed were her best, and offer a realistic portrait of the racial inequalities and social injustices that characteri...

A new edition of Alice Childress's classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane GayFirst published in Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950's. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred's outspoken accounts vividly capture ...

Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him fell so good, so relaxed, so tuned out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for someone to believe in him, for someone to believe that he's more than a thirteen-year-old junkie. But Benjie can't kick heroin for his...

A woman's odyssey from rural south to Harlem mirrors black American experience 1900-1950.

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