Poetry as Spellcasting
Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power
Various Authors Poems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Pop Song
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Quietly Hostile
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Samantha Irby A much-anticipated, hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Red Lip Theology
For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
Candice Marie Benbow A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and opening new levels of understanding and ideological transformation for non-Black women... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Revolutionary Mothering
Love on the Front Lines
Alexis Pauline Gumbs Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a... BooksNon-Fiction
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Say It Loud!
On Race, Law, History, and Culture
Randall Kennedy In a magnum opus that spans two decades, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, one of our preeminent legal scholars and public intellectuals, gives us... BooksNon-Fiction
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She Memes Well
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Quinta Brunson From comedian Quinta Brunson comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays featuring anecdotes about trying to make it when you’re broke, overcoming self-doubt... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Should America Pay?
Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations (Special Order)
Raymond A. Winbush Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major corporations and a march in Washington to an... AntiracismBooks
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Slave Narratives
Library of America The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Small Doses
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So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'All Don't Even Know
Retta In her hilarious book of essays, Parks and Recreation star Retta shares the stories that led to her success in Hollywood. In So Close to Being the Sh*t,... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Some of Us Did Not Die
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June Jordan Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include... AntiracismBooks
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Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Nichole Perkins A passionate, magnetic memoir that explores writer and podcast host Nichole Perkins's obsession with pop culture and the challenges of navigating relationships as a Black... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Stakes Is High
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Starry Messenger
Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Neil deGrasse Tyson Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time―war, politics, religion, truth,... BooksNon-Fiction
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Sue Kwon: Rap Is Risen
New York Photographs 1988-2008
Sue Kwon The last decade of the 20th century into the first decade of the 21st represent a High Renaissance age of hip hop―an era in which... BooksLGBTQIA+
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The Black Agenda
Bold Solutions for a Broken System
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from... BooksMovements
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The Black Experience in Design
Identity, Expression & Reflection
Various Authors The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily... ArtBooks
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The Book of Delights
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Ross Gay In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The... Best-SellersBooks
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The Cross of Redemption
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James Baldwin A revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was... BooksNon-Fiction
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The Devil Finds Work
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At... AntiracismBest-Sellers
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The Fire Next Time
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The Groundings with My Brothers
Walter Rodney I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together. -... BooksHistory
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The Humanity Archive
Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
Jermaine Fowler This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.Using history as... AntiracismBooks
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The Matter of Black Lives
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David Remnick A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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The Matter of Black Lives
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
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The New Negro Aesthetic
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Alain Locke Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic... BooksClassics
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The Pretty One
On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me
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The Price of the Ticket
Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
James Baldwin An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”Personal and prophetic, these... BooksClassics
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Various Authors A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church... BooksNon-Fiction
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The Russian Revolution
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Edited by Roxane Gay (Back-Order, June 20 2023)
Audre Lorde A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described "black,... BooksLGBTQIA+
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The Source of Self-Regard
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection—a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations... Best-SellersBooks
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The Unfolding
An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself
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The World Record Book of Racist Stories
Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You'll Never Believe What... BooksNon-Fiction
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There's a Revolution Outside, My Love
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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Thick
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Tressie McMillan Cottom FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author... Best-SellersBooks
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Things I Have Withheld
Kei Miller By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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This is for the mostless
Jason Magabo Perez THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez's debut book, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems, essays, fictions, and oral... Book ClubsBooks
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Trap Door
Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Various Authors Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture. The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art... ArtBooks
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Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Unfollow Me
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Jill Louise Busby An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack. Jill Louise Busby spent years in the nonprofit... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Alice Walker The New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authorWith a new foreword by Rebecca Walker When... Best-SellersBooks
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk... BooksNon-Fiction
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We Too
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Natalie West This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's never been a better time to fight for justice. Responding to the... BooksNon-Fiction
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We Were Eight Years in Power
An American Tragedy
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Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
Evette Dionne A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne My... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Well-Read Black Girl
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Glory Edim Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the... BooksRecently Added
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
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Damon Young A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk about
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Michele Filgate "You will devour these beautifully written--and very important--tales of honesty, pain, and resilience" (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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White Girls
Hilton Als White Girls is about, among other things, Blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks,... BooksFiction
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White Magic
Elissa Washuta Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz,... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?
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Jesse McCarthy Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays... ArtBooks
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Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed
15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
Saraciea J. Fennell Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology... BooksRecently Added
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