Collection: Books

From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna's literary career "Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race...

In this call to bravery from Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, Faizah learns to overcome her fears and stand in front of the crowd in this...

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot....

  Now an original movie on Prime Video starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine!  When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery...

  Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon...

Written by award-winning performance poet Joseph Coelho, Goodnight, Starry Night is a collection of fourteen poems that takes readers on a gentle journey into dreamland. Each poem...

The world's oddest drag artist This book is an intimate and in-depth look into the life of Yvie Oddly, winner of season eleven of RuPaul's...

From Rebecca Walker, mother, and bestselling author, comes Time for Us - her debut children's book dedicated to the precious time we spend together.  To...

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class...

  A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era. In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access...

This color art book highlights political art and ephemera, including zines, stickers, posters, and memes, and sheds light on archiving social movements. The book features...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At...

  "Her best work yet. . . This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin "[Okorafor’s] worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in...

A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll...

In this unusual and inventive picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, noted picture book biographer Jonah Winter (Dizzy, Frida, You...

George C. Wolfe's iconic play on the black experience of the 1980s.   The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining...

"Ambitions beyond the imagination of most Broadway musicals. Anyone who cares about the future of the American musical will want to see Jelly's Last Jam."--Frank Rich, The...

Tracy Deonn's #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic...

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an...

The Day God Saw Me as Black is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race,...

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today's movements for social and racial justice In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow...

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and...

The Walther Collection is a private international art collection dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary photography with special emphasis on the works of African and...

Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized...