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A young woman harnesses her newfound power to challenge the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliant and provocative novel from the award-winning author...

This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community....

Designed as a companion volume to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this publication offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los...

Featuring the lush, powerful paintings of Noah Davis, this blank book--the latest in The Artist Journals series--offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer....

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips's riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer...

Black private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to date--and chases answers deep into America's shameful past. Half a century ago, Old...

An unforgettably powerful coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old LA transplant whose plans to build a doomsday shelter in her backyard collide with an unexpected summer...

A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer's two award-winning Parable books The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set...

This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and...

A comprehensive account of policing Black life in Canada and a vision for Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement.The bestselling first edition of Policing Black Lives became...

When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment...

"The mother of intersectional Latinx identity." --Cosmopolitan "Scorchingly good."--Cheryl Strayed "The most fearless writer in America." --Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist "A truly distinctive, authentic, and...

As housing crises proliferate around the world, so does the fightback. A new generation of tenants' unions is rising to demand suitable, affordable housing. From...

Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars....

  In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating...

The first book on beloved Los Angeles community organizer and urban gardener Ron Finley, known as the “Gangsta Gardener”Ron Finley is a visionary designer, horticulturalist...

Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to...

Los Angeles Times BestsellerThis riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes...

The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in...

  Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South...

South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depiction obscures the significant Latina/o...

African American Artist in Los Angeles in the 1960's and 1970's  In South of Pico, Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during...