Collection: History

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black periodical editors roved across oceans and between empires, bearing newspaper texts, formats, and genres with them. As...

Cuba in the 1970s was a beacon of Third World liberation--and a sanctuary for US radicals on the run. Fugitive States is the true story of Charlie...

Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of...

From theatrical costumes to leather accessories and jewelry, Saar's early wearable artworks are as transformative as her assemblages Organized around Betye Saar's early work in...

On March 24, 1965, Nina Simone performed at a rally for twenty-five thousand people on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights...

Today, Brazil is home to both some of the strongest trans rights protections and the highest rates of transphobic murders in Latin America. To explain...

The little-known heroes behind Motown’s greatest hits are finally heard in this moving memoir filled with the rich historical atmosphere and emotional resonance of Hidden Figures,...

Writings on the new international subcultures of print on demand Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s...

A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement...

Artists from South Africa and Vietnam to Brazil and the Congo reckon with and reshape colonial and ethnographic photography More and more artists from beyond...

“A deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful boldly explores...

Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground,...

Lead with Power. Lead with Care. Change Everything.Revolutionary Leadership: A Power Playbook for Black Women redefines what leadership looks like by honoring the distinctive, transformative approaches...

Celebrate Juneteenth with this empowering picture book!On June 19th, 1865, the last enslaved African Americans were finally freed in Galveston, Texas. Every year, our community...

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the...

"We tell these parts of our stories in order to heal from hurt and honor the ways we have been healing."—Patrice Gopo, from the introduction Can Black...

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and legal expert comes an accessible and modern guide on how to read and understand the U.S. Constitution.Think of...

"Exquisitely deep in vogue." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Kicking off a picture book series of LGBTQ+ biographies is this inspiring story of the incomparable dancer Willi Ninja,...

Celebrating eight decades of Camara's visionary totemic sculptures that visualize motifs of motherhood and ancestry Gathering select works completed between 1990 and 2022, this volume...

Desire Path explores how everyday life, memory, history, and politics work against and toward each other across communities and national boundaries. This collection pleats numerous lives:...

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and...

  Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón,...

The New York Times bestselling memoir now adapted for young adults! Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court,...