Collection: Books

An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works,...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin & other conversations “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was...

"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." — The NationBaldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also...

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and...

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime...

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment ― halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from...

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial Black women...

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are...

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across...

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South...

Includes a brand-new Binti story!Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one...

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are...

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent...

In the tradition of Notorious RBG, a lively, beautifully designed, full-color illustrated celebration of the life, wisdom, wit, legacy, and fearless style of iconic American Congresswoman...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered...

America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black...

A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a world filled with racism...

The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with an unforgettable story about the meaning of freedom. Coming of age as a...

From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the Black activist, organizer, and freedom...

Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.Rosewater is a town on...

The New York Times Bestseller from the author of Our Time Is Now "In a time when too many folks are focused simply on how to win an election,...

From Senator—and now Vice President-elect—Kamala Harris comes a picture book with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us—and if we try, we can all...

From US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden’s pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about...