Collection: Staff Picks

From Laura Obuobi, acclaimed author of NAACP Image Award nominee Black Gold and What Love Looks Like, comes a triumphant nonfiction picture book about ballet star Michaela Mabinty...

In H. B. Akumiah's lively and charming debut, three young women discover the unbelievable: they're witches, and their newfound magic may be the key to...

Fall 2024 | Print | Issue 007Guest Edited by Ja'Tovia Gary  Seen guest editor and artist Ja'Tovia Gary and philosopher Dr. Joy James talk rebirth, black feminism, and hope as...

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost...

Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award...

"For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought--his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are." Nearly...

A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. Why do some...

GREATEST is a bi-annual print magazine published by GOAT GROUP showcasing the stories of up and coming artists as well as industry veterans who continuously...

Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable...

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the...

  For Volume 06, Forgotten Lands has chosen to center around what Cuban historical novelist, critical essayist, and short story writer Antonio Benítez-Rojo once termed...

The untold origin story of the 5 Muses from Disney's Hercules is revealed in this rollicking YA fantasy filled with mythical adventure, music, and the unbreakable bonds...

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no...

Learn how AI technology can utilize human-created biases, and what we can do to create a more fair, just world. This is a book about...

The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Series--featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race,...

  The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when...

A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke's masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the...

The first monograph by the New Black Vanguard's Arielle Bobb-Willis is a vivid statement about color, gesture, and style. Keep the Kid Alive, Arielle Bobb-Willis's first...

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State--from the award-winning author...

Examining aesthetic connections between the works of more than 50 Black artists from throughout the global diaspora This book was born out of frustration with...

A loving and powerful photobook following the lineage of one Black family, interrogating the semiotics of family portraiture This profoundly moving and visually ravishing photobook,...

From RuPaul's Drag Race winner and host of HBO's We're Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about...

A stirring love letter to the artist's great-grandmother, Aisha, and a visual and poetic homage to an elderly generation of women across the Middle East...