Collection: Non-Fiction

Pies (and tarts, quiches, and more) with a purpose from celebrated Chicago baker and star of Netflix's Bake Squad, Maya-Camille Broussard In Justice of the Pies, Maya-Camille Broussard shares...

A picture-book biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll—a warm, inspiring tale of a childhood filled with music, community, and...

This timely and gorgeously illustrated companion book to an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition explores the power of Afrofuturism to reclaim the past and reimagine Black futures...

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . ....

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one...

No one said motherhood would be easy. For Adiba Nelson, the journey to parenthood started with a big bang and continues with a breakdown (or...

A photographic celebration and exploration of Black identity and experience through the twentieth century from the founder and curator of the hit multimedia platform Black...

A focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC'77 festival From January 15 to...

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet,...

Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight...

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things--from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and...

The Wall Street Journal Bestseller featured in Bloomberg, Fast Company, Masters of Scale, the Motley Fool, Marketplace and more. An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking...

A visionary photography book that brings together the best of classic Hollywood with today's iconic Black entertainers for an immersive experience unlike anything you've ever...

Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.   Horror movies hold a complicated...

A powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change―from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the "Silence =...

From Arcadia to Guerilla Gardening, Bomarzo to Little Sparta, Roberto Burle Marx to Fritz Haeg, the Anthropocene to Vibrant Matter: a brilliant and radical A-Z...

The cultural phenomenon that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your...

A photographic panorama of the creativity and variety of Black women's hairstyles In Crowns: My Hair, My Soul, My Freedom American photographer Sandro Miller (born 1958) celebrates...

In the vein of You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores...

From the bestselling authors of The First Forty Days comes a gently nurturing guide for aspiring mothers.  The path to motherhood is a deep and transformative process. It...

In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define "home" and "belonging" -- from her birth...