Collection: Non-Fiction

Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown dance and performance world in the past 40...

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life” In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in...

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces...

"I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too." Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker...

African Holistic Health addresses health issues from a comprehensive African-centered viewpoint. It provides a complete guide to herbal remedies along with homeopathic disease treatments. What...

“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and...

Inspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s experience and politics, the essays, interviews,...

Ida B. Wells was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing...

The imperialists know the only way you will voluntarily turn to the fox is to show you a wolf. In eleven speeches and interviews, Malcolm...

Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard  — Create the cannabis of your dreams!

 Weed is powerful medicine, and growing your own is as empowering as...

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as an occasion to explore new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Brown...

Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for Black female...

In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites Black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond Black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery...

Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy — During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches...

Published for Jordan Casteel’s major New Museum show, Within Reach surveys her paintings exploring the nuances of Black subjectivity In her large-scale oil paintings, New York-based artist...

Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion The first-ever art book celebrating black models, filled with revealing essays, interviews, and stunning photographs  To date, there has...

“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write....

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana....

In this personal, moving essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a...

The “brilliantly wry” (Lena Dunham) and “lovably awkward” (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO’s Insecure.In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her...

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...

Harlem’s gay ball subculture of the late 1980s is superbly documented in this trove of previously unseen photographs. In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only...