Collection: Non-Fiction

What does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power?This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and...

This third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn...

Tender and devotional figures in clay from an ordained minister and self-described testimonial artist Born and based in Brooklyn, sculptor Reverend Joyce McDonald (born 1951)...

A joy-filled gift from the ancestors composed of 365 gentle prayers and affirmations to intuitively provide you with healing all year long.“Ancestors said they experience...

J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the...

  “These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. “They are acts...

The highly anticipated debut monograph from trailblazing artist Nina Chanel Abney Combining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney's paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary...

Inspired by cultural theorists Sylvia Wynter and June Jordan, we seek to expand the concept of “architecture” beyond its conventional meaning to survey the physical,...

“A sumptuous tapestry of magic spells and memories.”—Los Angeles Times A stunning collection of spells and stories to infuse our lives with ritual, history, and...

WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD • The first comic ever created by African Americans, for African Americans.Three quarters of a century ago, Orrin C. Evans lead a team of...

Exploring how Afro-Atlantic religion has been used toportray Black womanhood by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange In this book, Sheneese Thompson analyzes works...

A USA TODAY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK“A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority’s coming of age.” —The New York TimesThis is not the story...

Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control and...

A Domestic Cook Book (1866) by Malinda Russell is the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman. Born in Tennessee, and descended from...

"The embodied and tender guide that every Black woman needs" Kelechi Okafor"A deeply moving love letter to all our curls" Fola Evans-Akingbola"More than a hair manual -...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents...

The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the...

In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the...

Finalist for the National Book Award for NonfictionYiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.“There is...

Finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction "An immersive, devastating look at foster children's lives." (Seattle Times) A compelling exploration of the broken American...

In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much...