Collection: History

  One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would...

  “When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then...

A groundbreaking, full-color celebration of Black creativity and cultural impact—told through expressive LEGO® sculptures and compelling biographical storytelling. Based on an award-winning, museum-exhibited art project, Awesome...

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present Audiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative...

The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay"Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south,...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the untold story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the...

A treasure trove from the golden era of hip-hop journalism, featuring groundbreaking articles, oral histories, and never-before-seen photos and artifacts—expertly curated by a renowned archivistIn...

Jazmin Garcia's debut photography book: an ode to hope, relayed through a transcendental study of women and flowers. The book was designed by Symrin Chawla,...

Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson invites you to Abernathy House.A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is...

  "Inside-out" solutions to systematic, long-lasting change within storied and well-established art museums Published with Buro Stedelijk. Between December 2022 and November 2025, Stedelijk Museum...

  A visual history of the iconic Brockman Gallery, celebrating its art and artists through essays, photographs, and archival imagery.The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990 tells...

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as...

The first monograph on the internationally celebrated Nigerian American painter who blends her personal history and African diasporic identity in layered compositions“Critics have often (and...

Lift our gaze from urgent chaos to see the horizon beckoning Move from "I" to "we" through breaking bread, sipping tea, sharing stories Find the...

The compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.   He...

We all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of...

A stunning exploration of the history of Black Americans by award-winning picture book team Traci N. Todd and Vashti Harrison.The world is forever changed because...

Passports 2012-2025 presents an intimate body of work by Keisha Scarville taken from an ongoing series centered around her father's earliest passport photograph. The artist...

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen continues his exploration of colonial history and its legacies in this new book comprised of meditative photographs of Grenada's flora....

  From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their...

Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book...

uWhen nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn't reconcile how Prince's funky disco-pop...

A bold look at the unexpected ways porn shapes our lives, with a feminist defense, drawn from Erika Lust’s decades in adult filmmaking, that argues...

Discover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman...