When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging.

A black youth growing up in the Jim Crow South is brutally taught his place in life by his family.

"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. Includes his companion essay, 'Memories of My Grandmother'."--

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

"Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature -- and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. This two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the...

Dazzling collection of 810 Haiku written by the late African-American author of Native Son holds true to the traditional Zen discipline of depicting the relationship between man and nature, but does so from the perspective of an African-American man.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...

A revenge story focusing on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her enemies the very life they took from her.

Rise of the Lycans is set mostly within the walls of vampire lord Viktorś (Bill Nighy) castle, so the filmś silver, black, and blue palette reflects a world happening under moonlight. From the outset, when Viktor brings Lucian, the first werewolf, into the world, this villainous bloodsuckerś daughter, Sonja (Rhona Mitra), is smitten with Lucianś hairy appearance and instinctual intelligence. As years pass, Lucian grows tired of watching his race...

A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involed in an ancient war with the vampires. A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise...