Collection: Non-Fiction

Phil Kaye's debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of time, as jagged...

A compact 11-poem collection of poet Phil Kaye's early work. Includes poems such as "Teeth", "Suburbia" and "Funerals are Like Birthday Parties (For My Grandmother)"....

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Instant New York Times Bestseller  From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles--and living your...

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how...

In this long-overdue celebration of Black women's resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on "The Year That Changed Everything"--2020--and African-American...

From the author of the ever-popular and celebrated Sacred Woman This beautifully-formatted, life-changing, interactive journal welcomes all women to explore a blueprint for healing by connecting their...

Ruth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen--from the...

The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and...

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.This pioneering work...

Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become...

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and...

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America.   In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes...

We will rewrite the narrative of Blackness that centers and celebrates our joy. In It's Always Been Ours eating disorder specialist and storyteller, Jessica Wilson, challenges us...

A gritty and down-to-earth guide for real-life couples  Conflict is a natural part of any intimate relationship. Yet most couples either avoid it or try...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials   The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully...

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James J Dilla Yancey crafted a set...

Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album...

Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as neo-soul, a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than...

From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across...

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "soul food" gained common use. While critics were quick to categorize her as...

A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla...