Collection: Books

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...

Hundreds of stunning images from Black history have been buried in the New York Times photo archives for decades. Four Times staff members unearth these overlooked photographs and investigate...

A collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career.   There...

From the author of the highly acclaimed How High the Moon comes a moving and heartfelt novel about how a girl's family and friendships are turned upside...

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions...

Poemhood: Our Black Revival — History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology This powerful, breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by Amber McBride,...

A Buddhist lama and intersectional thought leader shares a clarion call for those who would dream a more just, ethical world into being. Saints, spiritual...

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...

  "I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction." - Octavia E. Butler   Octavia...

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." --bell hooks   bell...

  From the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian...

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn...

A way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save.   Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata--a mermaid--collecting...

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,...

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness...

Jodie Slaughter's latest rom-com, Play to Win, is a sizzling romance where a winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start but instead becomes...

Six months after losing a world title fight that remains infamous as one of the last mob fixes in boxing, Tyrone "The Butterfly" Everett-a flashy,...

A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten, by the Newbery Honor-winning author of Crown.   The morning sun blares through your...

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details...

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga--as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs...