“DeCoy, noted author of the explosive best-seller The Nigger Bible, takes on the black preaching establishment. Tracing the black church in America from its origins as an instrument of oppression in the hands of the slave owners, deCoy fires a powerfully documented broadside at the ‘Holy Man and his Holy Pole,’ the black preacher who rides the Gravy Train with the sweat-earned money of his sheeplike congregation. DeCoy asserts that the black preacher is still whitey’s flunk, a ‘head nigger’ hired to keep peace between the white exploiters and their black victims. In a devastating section called ‘Saving Graces,’ deCoy exposes the hustles used by the black preach to line his own pockets and keep his ‘flock’ submissive.”

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 217 pages

“The life of Jack Johnson, the first Afro-American heavyweight champion of the world, is the story of civil rights in the first half of the 20th century. Single-handedly, he stood up against the boxing kingpins, the KKK, and the United States Government. He was the man whom William Jennings Bryan called ‘a nigger’ and the world heavyweight champion that Winston Churchill said was not welcome in England. Booker T. Washington condemned him for ‘rocking the boat’ and Jack London, then America’s favorite writer, sent out a call for The Great White Hope—a white boxer who could defeat him and ‘uphold the honor of white people.’” By the author of The Nigger Bible.

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 320 pages
Illustrated

More exploding bombshell than polemic—”Written by an acknowledged Nigger about the experience of Niggers, addressed and directed exclusively to my Nigger people for whom it was purposely conceived”—The Nigger Bible (1967) is an incendiary call for racial independence written in a tone that clocks in somewhere between Farrakhan and Jehovah. Unashamedly racist (“SEPARATION IS ‘THE NIGGER SALVATION’”), rabidly anti-Judeo-Chrisitian, deCoy contends, with dizzying repetition (via sermons, proverbs and parables), that the reclamation of spiritual and political black truths can only occur outside the manipulating sphere of the Caucasian oppressor where the “Negro” (“prostitutes of Black Spirit”) can construct his own world, define his own terms and think for himself—in short, discover his true “Niggerness.” Continually veering between acumen and bombast, insight and screed, it’s difficult to know if deCoy is at any point being ironic. Either way, he’ll leave the reader (even, or especially, white readers) reeling and spent. MDG

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 304 pages

“Forged in the fire of the late-1960s revolution, the Black Panther Party erupted onto the scene with a violence unparalleled in modern American history. The image of proud black men patrolling ghetto streets wearing black leather and bristling with weapons brought forth fearful reactions and insanely violent reprisals from law-enforcement officers throughout the land… The cast of characters reads like a Who’s Who of black militancy—Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Stokley Carmichael, Earl Anthony, Panther enemy Ron Karenga—all caught up in a whirlwind of revolution and counterrevolution under the murderous eye of the FBI.”

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 240 pages
Illustrated

Serious and sad tale of an ex-junkie/ho’ coming to terms with her impending death from AIDS. Fairly gut-wrenching. MG

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 144 pages

Seventies pulp which was actually made into a movie. “Meet the black starlet and the men who made her… Her white agent becomes her pimp and she treks in and out of producers’, directors’ and backers’ bedrooms, bending to their perverse hungers. She came to Hollywood with an active hatred of whites but finds that in the glittering unreality of the movie capital, a black will cheerfully do her in and call her sister at the same time.” Ten pages of black-and-white photos. GR

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 215 pages

Lee Francis paid the politicians and quietly ran a set of upscale whorehouses in the Golden Age of Hollywood, designed as sex spas for the stars. John Garfield hung out, Errol Flynn worked out and John Barrymore passed out. Clark Gable was a good friend (“but he never set foot in my place”). Aimee Semple McPherson’s secretary became one of her hookers. “It’s all here, the sexcapades of actors, actresses, writers, directors and politicians, the people who made Hollywood move.” GR

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 224 pages

“I raised the belt high above my head. Just before I brought it down with all my might, I removed the towel from his buttocks. He jumped as the belt landed. ‘God Almighty!’ he shouted. ‘What are you doing?’ For an answer, I gave him another lick of the belt. And another one. He took four of them before he rolled off the mattress and landed on his knees on the floor. He clasped his hands and raised them to me as if he were praying. ‘I’m sorry, ‘ he said, ‘please don’t hit me again.’” True story of a professional black dominatrix, from 1976. GR

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 254 pages

Written as a series of letters to the junkie father she put in jail, this is the author’s own story of a childhood marred by drugs and abuse. SC

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 219 pages

“He was young, ambitious and blessed with a superior IQ. He spent 25 years of his life in Hell. Other pimps died in prison, or in insane asylums, or were shot down in the street. But Iceberg Slim escaped death and the drug habit to live in the square world and write… about his people and his life.”

Publisher: Holloway House
Paperback: 320 pages