Collection: Non-Fiction

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been...

Pulitzer Prize Winner & Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at...

Beloved TV chef (ABC’s Emmy Award-winning The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo’s Top Chef), Carla Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a...

In Rock My Soul, world-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective...

On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American...

The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation “We need this book.” — Ibram X. Kendi,...

In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get...

Tina Turner—beloved living legend—returns with a deeply personal and inspiring book that reveals the wisdom behind her journey to joy and provides a practical guide...

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely...

  Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry | Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryA searing...

A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X —  A rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on...

An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works,...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin & other conversations “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was...

"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." — The NationBaldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also...

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime...

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment ― halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from...

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial Black women...

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are...

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across...

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are...