Collection: Books

In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred.   Rather than purity and...

In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry's incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into...

In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black...

A bold call to rethink authenticity at work Workplace dynamics in recent years have been a dizzying storm of broken promises. Companies that once encouraged...

Librarian and literacy ambassador Mychal Threets invites all to find themselves at the library! Perfect for little readers who are regular visitors and those who...

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about...

The first of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name for the first time You never know...

A James Beard Award winner celebrates the women heroes who are fighting against the Big Food system—and asks the question: How should we eat? When the Covid-19...

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more...

For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation Once the...

A rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia town After several years of silence...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner!   When Candice finds a letter in an old attic in...

Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel!   Maureen and Francine Carter...

From the author of the bestselling novel The Street, Ann Petry’s classic 1947 novel portrays a small, sleepy New England town grappling with the indignities and lies of...

The Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they...

Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, The Look is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama’s style evolution, in her own words for the...

A spare and beautiful meditation on love and longing, My Jim holds an unrelenting gaze on the life and world of Sadie, the wife of Jim from...

Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee's unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book...

The Vanquishers are back and ready to defend their town against the undead in this spooky middle grade from New York Times bestselling author Kalynn...

“Big Machine is like nothing I’ve ever read, incredibly human and alien at the same time. Victor LaValle writes like Gabriel García Márquez mixed with Edgar...

From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force It’s the summer of 2020,...

From the prizewinning author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant recasting of the Snow White fairy tale as a story...

A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker. What if your...

An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti Cécé La Flamme, as she’s known by her loyal...