Collection: Non-Fiction

Nara Aziza Smith (@naraaziza), the best-dressed culinary creator in digital media, brings her signature style to 80 delicious, homemade family-friendly recipes in her debut cookbook....

Make vital shifts in how you use your energy―and how you rest―by understanding your nervous system through gentle guidance and practices.“This book is a balm...

From Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup, comes a bold and urgently needed rethink of how organizations are built—and why success itself so often turns...

Newbery Honor and Pura Belpré Medal Winner Margarita Engle and New York Times bestselling illustrator Jacqueline Alcántara bring to light the life of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam,...

A much-needed, empathetic guide for untangling the complex world of parenting a neurodivergent child One diagnosis can change everything. That is what Nefertiti Austin discovered...

The first biography of a controversial, iconoclastic architect of Black Studies, from a leading scholar of the Black intellectual tradition   In the 1960s and...

"We Are Not Numbers is not just a book—it's my life, their life, and our shared story ... This is Gaza as it truly is, written...

The literature of the civil rights movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the movement, including, for example, Martin Luther King, but...

MacArthur-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández argues that white supremacy has shaped every aspect of the American immigration regime in this nuanced and powerful new book....

Before they became household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place...

In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, and Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York...

The official volume dedicated to the Royal Family of Pop, The Jacksons: Legacy offers unparalleled access to the legend that is the Jacksons. Four specially commissioned chapters...

BLACK!Feminist!FREE! gathers Beverly Guy-Sheftall's most influential essays, public speeches, and interviews into a single volume, offering readers access to the depth and range of her...

A New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is a compelling and illuminating exploration of the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black...

A comprehensive guide to car ownership and maintenance intended for anyone--regardless of age, gender or experience. When did you last pick up a book about...

Memoir by American Book Award winner Judy Juanita.  California Fever Dream chronicles Juanita's 60 years as a writer and activist. Judy Juanita is an award-winning poet,...

One Black woman's transformative journey of running through grief In the wake of profound grief at the loss of her mother, Tiffany Gayle Chenault decided, at age...

Birth of a Culture tells the chronological and comprehensive origin of hip hop. Over fifty years ago Joseph Saddler, a cool, nerdy, self-proclaimed kid scientist from...

The long-awaited memoir by the comedy legend and author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, a beautiful and mesmerizing book that reveals as never before his childhood...

A showstopping portrait of Whitney Houston as we’ve never seen her before—a woman in her full power, a musician who knew the impact of her...

Chef Edna: Queen of Southern Cooking is a heartfelt tribute to the legendary chef whose reverence for fresh ingredients, seasonal rhythms, and African American culinary heritage...

New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's GardenAmerica, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy's...

A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political...

In this raw and lyrical memoir as rich and insightful as How to Say Babylon and as vulnerable and provocative as Heavy, an Emmy Award-winning director chronicles his struggle...