Modecai Jefferson is a young, dynamic 1940s jazz musician who carries his piano on his back, hears music every second of the day, and enjoys playing for his lover and biggest fan in Way City, AlabamaDelores Bonet. To Modecai, he and Delores are like black love notes on a musical page. But all of that is about to change the day he hears a recording of up-and-coming Harlem jazz trumpeter, Bunny Greensleeves. If he wants to make a name for himself, Modecai needs to find a way out of Alabama and to the jazz capital of the world. Bunny, who is driven to overcome his impoverished Mississippi upbringing, desperately wants fame, fortune, and power. Meanwhile after Doloress ex-con boyfriend returns and threatens Modecais life, he heads for New York sooner than expected. After Modecai eventually meets up with Bunny, the two musicians struggle to overcome the obstacles in a city where success is marginal and failure is predictedall while attempting to leave their mark with their dynamic talent and inventive jazz compositions. Now only time will tell if they will ever achieve all their dreams. Black Love Notes chronicles the journey of two young jazz musicians as they strive for fame and fortune amid a 1940s Harlem where hurt and regrets, crooked deals, and murder lurk in the shadows.

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

Like Demi Moore in the movie Ghost, Hosea Brown suffers the unexpected loss of his spouse becoming incurably distraught until she begins to talk to him from Heaven through music, which he eventually plays for the world.

Collected from the Chicago Tribune column of the same name, Love Notes is an intimate look at the charms and challenges of love in the modern age. Containing 50 profiles, each a personal account of a couple finding love, this uplifting collection tells the unique story of a real-life people and the love that keeps them together. After each profile there is a set of mini-love stories, comprising short reader-submitted accounts of their own coming-together tales. Love Notes presents the stories of relatable couples from all walks of life, sharing their diverse experiences and inspiriting happiness. This book reveals the challenges and commonalities of couples young and old, newly engaged and long lasting, as well as traditional and nontraditional. These stories celebrate relationships through their turbulence and triumph, leaving readers with a broader view of the surprising paths that lead one person to another and inspire them to find love notes of their own.

An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.

Inspire. Uplift. Motivate. Empower. These letters, written by over 100 Black women and girls, will do just that. Drawing from personal experiences, emotional hardships, desires of the heart and victories; our sisters share words that will help you recognize your natural beauty, remember the strength and resilience that resides within you and realize your potential and power. Each letter will meet you where you are, when you need it and help you to see you for who you really are-brilliant, valuable, worthy, loveable, loved, powerful, bold, fearless, a fighter, a difference-maker, and vulnerable, yet strong. This is who you are; who you really are. These letters testify to the truth of who you are. Read it. Feel it. Be fueled by it, then go light up the world with all of your magnificent color.

When you want to say how much you love someone, nothing compares to a beautifully crafted, handwritten note. It's still the most heartfelt way to express timeless affection and true romance. With this exquisite papercrafting book as inspiration, artists and crafters can create the perfect card for family, friends, and significant others. There's a chapter with ideas for composing the greeting and finding quotations, as well as a gallery section with even more card ideas. Step-by-step and full-color photographs make even the more complicated designs simple to accomplish.

Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short-story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Said Zadie Smith, “To be this good and yet to be ignored is shameful, but her rediscovery is a great piece of luck for us.” That rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author’s talent. The compilation is anchored by more of Collins’s striking short stories, which explore the ways in which relationships both are formed and come undone. Also collected here is the work Collins wrote for the screen and stage, including the screenplay of her pioneering film Losing Ground and the script for The Brothers, which powerfully illuminate the particular joys, challenges, and heartbreaks rendered by the African American experience. And finally, it is in Collins’s raw and prescient diaries that her nascent ideas about race, gender, marriage, and motherhood first play out on the page. By turns empowering, exuberant, sexy, and poignant, Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary is a brilliant compendium of the works of an inimitable talent, and a rich portrait of a writer hard at work.

The twenty-first century presents unique political challenges, like increasing concern over racially based police brutality and mass incarceration, continuing economic and gender inequality, the rise of conservative and libertarian politics, and the appropriate role of religion in American politics. Current scholarship in American political thought research neither adequately responds to the contemporary moment in American politics nor fully captures the depth and scope of this rich tradition. This collection of essays offers an innovative expansion of the American political tradition. By exposing the major ideas and thinkers of the four major yet still underappreciated alternative traditions of American political thought—African American, feminist, radical and conservative—this book challenges the boundaries of American political thinking about such values like freedom, justice, equality, democracy, economy, rights, identity, and the role of the state in American life. These traditions, the various authors show in different ways, not only present a much fuller and more accurate characterization of what counts as American political thought. They are also especially unique for the conceptual resources they provide for addressing contemporary developments in American politics. Offering an original and substantive interpretation of thinkers and movements, American Political Thought will help students understand how to put American political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory.

Love Notes From Me to You is a fun book with thoughtful prompts for you to fill out with your own words, personalize, and gift to your significant other. With this unique book, you'll be able to: 1. Create a personalized gift for your loved one; a sentimental keepsake they will cherish forever. 2. Express your feelings and all the reasons why you love your partner with the help of unique prompts. Also, it has enough room to comfortably write your answers to each prompt. 3. Add some spark to your relationship. 4. Show your gratitude and appreciation for your partner. 5. Capture everything your partner means to you with helpful prompts such as: What I love about your sense of humor is... The most impactful thing you've ever said about me is... What I'm looking forward to in life with you is... and so much more What's more, this book is easy to fill out with wonderful memories of your loved one. It has: -- Over 52 creative "What I love about you" prompts. -- A section to add your favorite picture together. Lastly, Love Notes From Me to You makes a great anniversary, engagement, Birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas, or Valentine's Day gift for your partner. Now: Get your copy of Love Notes From Me to You today.