Dempsey Travis chronicles the campaigns of each African-American who has run for President prior to Barack Obama in his new book, Obama's Race to the White House. Find out about the details of Obama's life and his work as a community organizer before his involvement in politics, his wife, and Hillary Clinton, his campaign rival before he won the nomination. Discover the mystery regarding the six black presidents America has had in the past and why Obama is not the nation's first black president. Wrapping it all up is an in-depth chapter specific to Obama's life in politics and how he came to win the Election with his "Yes We Can!" slogan and his speeches about hope and "Change We Can Believe In." He has shown the American people that change is necessary and how he plans to bring it about, like so many leaders before him.

Norman Granz: The White Moses of Black Jazz his stories of the stars with recollections of the late impresario who brought their music to a wider audience. This book is a sequel to Dempsey Travis’ best selling book An Autobiography of Black Jazz. — Chicago Magazine

This book is a comprehensive political analysis of Blacks in the Illinois political structure. The work contains considerable empirical and analytic detail about the operation of Black politics at both the municipal and state level.

Travis provides for readers details on one of the most terrorized eras in the United States, one that personally affected individuals in high places. It was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and J. Edgar Hoover; a ruthless man who tormented thousands of people. The Author, in his account of the actions of the FBI, provides indepth accounts of the fear by which entertainers, actors and others lived, a brutal, emotional atmosphere that enveloped them in gross darkness.

Ultimately Travis reminds the reader of how profoundly the issue of race has shaped the lives of all Americans - and how it will continue to do so in the future.” —- Lonnie G. Bunch