Collection: Non-Fiction

Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba peopleWomen in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba...

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how...

Celebrated feminist and award-winning author bell hooks's Killing Rage: Ending Racism is "an angry book that pulls no punches...Her frankness and willingness to face up to the...

Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls,...

We all want to have healthy boundaries. But what does that really mean – and what steps are needed to implement them in our daily...

In two of the most renowned and historic venues in Harlem, Alexander Smalls and JJ Johnson created a unique take on the Afro-Asian-American flavor profile....

In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an...

In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or...

Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact...

The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science,...

After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in...

An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans...

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories...

An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike Lee For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has...

The making of a visionary political leader―and a blueprint for a more equitable country“Don’t tell nobody our business,” Michael Tubbs’s mother often told him growing...

Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems,...

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self...