Collection: Autobiography & Memoir

beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black excellence. The New Brownies' Book reimagines the very first...

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the...

"All I can say is that I'm a shaker-upper. That's exactly what I am." --Shirley Chisholm   When Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for the...

  The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world...

He Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of...

The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh--icons who changed each other and the world   The day...

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by...

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection,...

A compelling reckoning with the birth of women's health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now For...

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman back through American history, from the foundational trauma of the...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded...

Debut. A funny, heartwarming, and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks,...

  **Includes an exclusive WORTHY affirmation Mirror Decal with each purchase while supplies last** A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar...

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring...

A spirited picture book biography about Althea Gibson, the first black Wimbledon, French, and U.S. Open tennis champion, from debut author Megan Reid and Coretta...

  An eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is...

An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf,...

It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton...

Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is...

Britney Daniels is a Black queer emergency-room nurse and social activist living in Chicago. This is her first book.In this searing, honest memoir, a Black...