Collection: Non-Fiction

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." -- Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever. De La Soul burst...

We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti-Black and racial-colonial violence. ...

A reimagining of the best-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action...

Notable Quotations from Barack Obama This pocket-sized hardcover book contains dozens of quotations on life, government, politics, culture and more from America’s forty-fourth president, Barack...

Víctor Jara was a Chilean poet, singer, theatre director, and communist activist. He was tortured and killed after the coup of 11 September 1973, which...

Raised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we've come to believe....

Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to...

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the...

The instant New York Times bestseller! "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington Post"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail." --Los...

“What should we watch?”   Never has a simple question sparked more family debate. That’s where this book comes in: Hey Kids, Watch This! is jam-packed with...

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs...

Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. A virtuoso for the...

In a complex tangle of past and present, contemporary artists engage with the legacies of non-Western 20th-century counterculture movements   Increasingly, contemporary artists are returning...

Forrester's vivid, gestural paintings circulate around ideas of ancestry, family, reggae club culture and the violence inflicted on Black communities   This volume presents 45...

The life and legacy of pioneering international basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon, a two-time NBA champion whose Hall of Fame career forever changed the game, both...

The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in--and stretching beyond--a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe....

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned...

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now...

Tatreez — elaborate hand-embroidery — is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of...

This book features more than two hundred photographs Polillo took of the illustrious musicians active in those years, from Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington, Count Basie,...

'Fugitive Archives' is not a book about African architecture or its history. It is a book about the role of primary research in the work...

Over the course of 2020-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic...