African American Plays

Legacy Myle’s life takes a dark turn when her mother, desperate to pay off debt, sells her to a ruthless pimp entangled in the world of drugs. Thrust into the unforgiving streets, Legacy quickly learns that the price of survival is steep and trust is a rare commodity. Betrayed and broken, she struggles to find her place in a game where everything comes at a cost. But when she meets Saint — a man who sees beyond her scars and offers her the security she's been denied — Legacy begins to question her path. Can Saint Clark love heal the wounds of her past, or will the shadows of her ...

You’ve heard of a womanizer but this is the story of a manizer A manizer is a woman who uses men for own selfish pleasure. She is such a manizer ... she has a new man every week! Jazmere is living her best life. What she wants she gets. She could have any man she chooses but she would much rather get what she can from them and move along. After breaking pockets and hearts of countless men she meets Worth. Worth gives Jazmere a run for her money and leaves her wanting to give up being a manizer. She has never met a man who is not going crazy about her so that makes Jazmere want him even more.

In this romantic-comedy novella, the sexiest player in the NFL and a small-town librarian prove that when opposites attract, their chemistry can be game changing.

Kimera Davis finds comfort in dating married men. It's easier that way. Her needs are taken care of, and she doesn't have to give more of herself than she wants to. No messy feelings involved. But when the man she's seeing poses an unexpected question, Kimera quickly realizes she's not the only woman pulled in by his charm. Their new arrangement doesn't require much from Kimera, but she soon discovers someone else is pulling the strings. She's not looking for complications, yet she can't help feeling there's something devious at play.

LaToya Hudson and Simon Gibson were acquaintances during their time at Smith University. However, they became close after several encounters in New York. They started dating and eventually became parents. But due to their busy schedules, they haven't had much time to be a couple, which makes them question their future together. LaToya has always been afraid of commitment because of the issues she experienced with her parents while growing up. Although they are committing to their marriage, it is also due to her father's illness. LaToya is going through a difficult time, with her new job, ...

In God Don't Play, trouble comes a woman's way just when she thinks she's finally got it all figured out. Annette Goode couldn't be happier with where she is in life. She has a good job, a comfortable home, and a wonderful husband and daughter. But tough times lie ahead. Out of the blue, Annette begins receiving anonymous hate mail and threatening phone calls. It seems her life isn't as settled as she thought, and demons from her past surface in unexpected ways.

The Next Best Urban Romance in the Manizer Series Brown skin bombshell Bianca is first introduced as Jazmere’ s big sister in Manizer. The two sisters are more alike than most people realize. She is a goal digger and maybe even a gold digger as she does what she needs to get ahead in life. In school and on her way to opening her salon she is the complete package of beauty and brains. She has no shortage of men who want to wife her up but tired of hood guys she only has eyes for one man, Myles--- that is until Shine comes into her life. Fresh out a messy relationship this time around Shine...

Norah Pettiway spends her life worrying about one person and one person only; herself. After being swooped up by her much older husband and being placed in hip-hop royalty she quickly became acclimated to the world of the finer things with every man, woman and credit card at her whim. One day her insatiable thirst for the finer things takes over and she finds herself not being the main priority of her life. Quickly her life is turned upside down as she finds love for the first time in her life with the hottest up -and -coming rapper in the game who coincidentally is her husband’s ...

He let her go to chase a dream. Now he's back—broken, sidelined, and face-to-face with the woman whose heart he shattered. When NFL star Hakim Brown returns to his hometown of Sweetgum Meadows after a devastating knee injury, the last person he expects to see is Jada Davis—his first love and the one woman he’s never stopped thinking about. But fate isn’t done with them yet. She’s his new physical therapist, and their sessions are filled with unresolved tension, unspoken regrets, and a chemistry neither of them can deny. Jada has spent years rebuilding her life and her heart after ...

*Chase* I have the billions, women, cars, friends, anything a man wants, I have it all except the one person that I want the most. What I desire I can't have so I just play the field until I can awaken the desire in her. She has already awakened mine. When the time comes, there will be no stopping me from claiming what's mine. Tianna Ballard, I will possess. *Tianna* I have loved Chase Dominick from as far back as I remember. But I'm no more than his kid sister best friend. Chase has awakened my desire without even trying, and I need him like I need oxygen to breathe. I won't give up until ...

Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous and continued impact on our culture as In Living Color. Inspired by Richard Pryor, Carol Burnett, and Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans created a television series unlike any that had come before it. In Living Color shaped American culture in ways both seen and unseen. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit.

Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.

NYC, 2013. During late night trips on the A train, we get snapshots of Tyrone's life - his close relationship with his mother, his attempts to flirt with a coworker, Niesha, his job as a bouncer, and his dreams of going back to school. As new traumas accumulate, Tyrone's world becomes as claustrophobic as the subway car, with as few opportunities to exit or change course.

Jacobi spotted me on the prison yard wandering around like a pet with no owner. And once we hit the showers, he decided to claim me as his. On the outside, I would have never taken the bait from someone like him. It would be a stain on my masculinity. I'd be alienated from everyone for being such a sissy. But prison has different rules. Here is where a man like me, who'd bend to another man, belongs. Word is spreading that the biggest man in our wing has claimed the smallest. Even the guards know--do they look at me funny because they want in? Regardless, I'm about to abandon all shame to ...

You will need to take cover for book 4 of the Greatest Love Series...Just Be Held. The entire cast returns and all of them are hit with storms that will shake their faith and relationships. You are in for a treat, the backstory is revealed for J.D. James and Karen's mother Cynthia Locke. You will finally get the answer to why Paige's mother-in-law Julia, despises her. The connection Julia shares with Paige's mother and father comes to light. Secrets are exposed and lives will be changed forever. Warning.. If you are looking for Christian fiction that does not deal with real life. If you ...

The year is 1990, and 12-year-old, Ken is at that awkward stage in his life where girls are becoming his only reason to exist. Being one of the few black students in his school, Ken battles to overcome his shyness to gain the attention of the opposite sex. He finds minor success as he works through several middle school relationships that, unknowingly to him at the time, change the course of his life. Just as things are starting to settle down for him, his family relocates from the safe haven of the Kansas military life to the grim inner-city life of New Orleans, forcing Ken to grow up a ...

Acclaimed author Marita Golden is a respected voice in both fiction and nonfiction. She is also the founder and CEO of theHurston/Wright Foundation, whose mission is to develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent. In this thoughtful and personal work, Golden tackles the dangerous notion that it is preferable for African-Americans to have lighter instead of darker complexions.

Two siblings investigate the murder of a friend only to unearth even more deadly mysteries in their small town in this page-turning young adult thriller from the acclaimed author of Their Vicious Games. When Mikky Graves left his small, stifling hometown of Prophets Lake to live with his...

No sport has been more associated with America’s sense of itself, with its identity, than baseball. No sport has been so inextricably bound with America’s traditions—with its notions of democracy and fair play—than baseball. And no professional sport in America has been as dramatically connected to social change as Major League Baseball when it became racially integrated the moment Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.

Sheree Montgomery has had a lot of experiences in her young life. She became a newspaper owner and recently found out that her biological parents are alive. Feeling betrayed, she questioned if she would ever be worthy of love. Consequently, she doesn't believe in relationships, especially since her biological mother, Shelby, suddenly reappears in her life. Sheree is doing everything possible to avoid a relationship due to her luck with dating. She wonders if she can give love a shot if only her insecurities aren't in her way. Pedro Gonzalez is living his best life, enjoying his job and ...