Collection: Staff Picks

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.Songs...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want...

Seen is a journal of film and visual culture focused on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally, published in print and online by BlackStar Projects....

NYT bestselling creator Loveis Wise's author-illustrated debut is a tour de force—poetically exploring the interconnectedness between all things and the universe.I am many shapes and colors,everything...

  A thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme, to the jazz clubs of Harlem,...

From the critically acclaimed author of the cult-classic Monstrilio comes a fever dream novel of twins and trickery, broken bones and brokenness, and of monsters, mischief, and...

Enter St. Paradise, a city pulsing with blood magic, where clan secrets and shifting allegiances rule the land. For the first time, bestselling novelist Akwaeke...

  An overview of Brackens' magical realist textiles that interfuse mythology with American history and Black identity This monograph offers an intimate and expansive introduction...

In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence, commonly...

A radiant ode to family love in its many forms, from award-winning author Winsome Bingham and New York Times bestselling illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz Whether biking or...

A child finds a way to access inner peace—when the world around her feels anything but peaceful—in this uplifting new picture book by acclaimed author-illustrator...

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town--untouched by white oppression--where ambitious...

A visionary new collection by former poet laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. SmithThe forest in Tracy K....

  The New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post,...

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire...

Artists from South Africa and Vietnam to Brazil and the Congo reckon with and reshape colonial and ethnographic photography More and more artists from beyond...

“Okparanta is a truth-teller and soothsayer.” —Tayari Jones From the acclaimed author of Under the Udala Trees, a profoundly moving, unforgettable new epic following the aftermath...

Emmy-winning comedian Katt Williams delivers a raw, unfiltered memoir that takes readers on a wild ride from homelessness to Hollywood, revealing the resilience, faith, and...

In this picture book follow-up to A Map for Falasteen, young Falasteen journeys to Palestine for the first time, experiencing both the beauty and unexpected challenges...

When darkness comes calling for two young agents, they'll learn some secrets are better left buried--and some hearts are the hardest to protect... DCU alum...

A mighty family once fell in a maelstrom of bloodshed and forbidden love. And the curse is about to repeat itself... When fantasy author Celeste...

Beneath Atlanta lies a hidden world of magic and murder known as the Underground. And its secrets won't stay buried forever... Namir was supposed to...

This is the Underground. We go by a different set of rules here—ones steeped in magic, history, and well... blood. Maggie Grey always dismissed her...