Item category 2: Black & Asian Interests

A selection of poems by Maya Angelou, including her inaugural poem for President Clinton, "On the Pulse of the Morning". Other work by the author includes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Gather Together in My Name", and "I Wouldn't Give Nothing for My Journey Now".

This is a vibrant and brightly coloured picture book, set in Africa, about a girl's eventful journey with a basket of fruit. Other titles by the author include No Problem, Tick-Tock and Where's My Bus?

The York Notes series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the Commonwealth and the Third World.

Reissued, this is the 3rd volume in the Maya Angelou's autobiography. In this volume, music and her son are the focus of her life. She is on the edge of a new world - marriage, show business and a triumphant tour of "Porgy and Bess".

This narrative explores the origins and impact of Ali's dramatic public stands on race and the draft. It traces his interaction with the evolving black liberation and anti-war movements and encounters with leading figures.

Caroline Lazo discusses the personal life and literary career of the African American woman who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple.

Long, long ago, when the earth was new, the great river goddess, Yemoya, sent her daughter Aje to marry a handsome earth chief in the Land of Shining Day. At first Aje was happy, but soon started to pine for the cool shadows of her mother's realm.