Collection: Non-Fiction

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely...

Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry | Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryA searing volume...

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...

An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works,...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin & other conversations “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was...

"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." — The NationBaldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also...

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime...

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment ― halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from...

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial Black women...

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are...

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across...

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are...

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered...

America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black...

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...

From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the Black activist, organizer, and freedom...

The New York Times Bestseller from the author of Our Time Is Now "In a time when too many folks are focused simply on how to win an election,...

From US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden’s pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about...

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.” – Hillary ClintonThe four most powerful African American women in politics share the story...

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...