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Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy — During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches...

Published for Jordan Casteel’s major New Museum show, Within Reach surveys her paintings exploring the nuances of Black subjectivity In her large-scale oil paintings, New York-based artist...

Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion The first-ever art book celebrating black models, filled with revealing essays, interviews, and stunning photographs  To date, there has...

“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write....

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana....

Ten adults―men and women, Black and white―fight, flee or die over the twelve-foot span of American People Series #20: Die, as an interracial pair of children...

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming...

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a...

In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to...

In this personal, moving essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a...

The “brilliantly wry” (Lena Dunham) and “lovably awkward” (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO’s Insecure.In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her...

In Civil Wars, June Jordan's battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores through a blending of personal reflection and political...

Harlem’s gay ball subculture of the late 1980s is superbly documented in this trove of previously unseen photographs. In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only...

  A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly...

“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” — Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the RoadThe Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.”Afi Tekple...

Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the acclaimed and influential debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill with this eye-opening and moving exploration of Lauryn Hill and her...

New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying novel, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to...

In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection...

An Eater Best Cookbook of Fall 2020 • This groundbreaking new cookbook from chef, bestselling author, and TV star Marcus Samuelsson celebrates contemporary Black cooking in 150 extraordinarily...

A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer's two award-winning Parable books The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set...