Collection: Classics

Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book...

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system...

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he...

A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X —  A rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on...

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...

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 first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of Black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is...

“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and...

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New...

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of...

In Civil Wars, June Jordan's battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores through a blending of personal reflection and political...

A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer's two award-winning Parable books The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set...

When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America—and it remains both a...

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and Black international politics. A vital document of Black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer...

“A true classic of world literature... A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.”  —Barack Obama Nominated as one...

A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being Black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author...

  Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer...

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN   From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom—winner...

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the...

Both a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.The book's nameless narrator describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending...

A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed | National BestsellerIn his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers,...