Collection: Books

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his...

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe,...

In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil...

"Parker stayed woke to black suffering, violence against Black bodies—especially those of black women—to the suffering engendered by multiple, egregious oppressions. With THE COMPLETE WORKS...

Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen — The first cookbook and recipe book from Tha Dogg, From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss...

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,...

A Note from Rep Club: We'd like to acknowledge this author's past transphobic remarks and the apology and accountability process they have undertaken at present. Recent reparative...

For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they...

For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is “as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself”...

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation.“A...

Illustrator Jacqui C. Smith graduated from Columbia College of Chicago with a BA in Film & Video: Traditional Animation. Jacqui currently resides in Burbank, California...

The fight for equality continues, from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the...

Illustrator Jacqui C. Smith graduated from Columbia College of Chicago with a BA in Film & Video: Traditional Animation. Jacqui currently resides in Burbank, California...

From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. Magical Negro is an archive...

  Tomi Adeyemi’s West African-inspired fantasy debut, and instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, conjures a world of magic and danger. They killed my mother.They took our...

  The first complete publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition.  Famed sociologist, writer, and black...

A classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism.Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered...

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that...

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...

James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and...

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for...