Collection: Staff Picks

Enter a future of defiant vitality in GLEEMImbued with cyberpunk attitude and in the rebellious tradition of afrofuturism, GLEEM is drawn with a fierce momentum hurtling towards a...

  A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascination and hidden history of the plant world. In this hard-hitting, witty,...

An unforgettably powerful coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old LA transplant whose plans to build a doomsday shelter in her backyard collide with an unexpected summer...

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and...

From Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and "insufficiently white" women   More men than...

When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale Hurston's books were out of print. Today her groundbreaking works, suffused with...

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying to outrun and outmatch a powerful, underground world One weekend. The...

The Stepford Wives meets Get Out in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon's first adult novel, a terrifying and thought-provoking look at what it means to be truly...

When James Baldwin died in 1987 at the age of sixty-three, he left behind an extraordinary body of work. Novels, poems, film scripts, and, perhaps...

In this lyrical picture book from two breakout picture book creators, a young Black child waits for--and worries about--her father while he's away from home....

A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers...

  Design Apprentice August chose to honor Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist. Rustin was an advocate against racial discrimination and for gay rights, as...

The Black School design Apprentice Jamyaa chose activist Assata Shakur – former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army as her...

Special edition vintage-inspired crew neck honoring bell hooks, by our friends at The Black School. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom is an...

"A field guide to the ethereal and mystical parts of our cooking that give it soul. It sings with the energy of intuition and tradition,...

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm--Visions of...

  Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller  The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. ...

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan--a deep invitation to remember and reconnect to our roots...

"New Blue Sun represents a continuation of adventure and discovery for me. Even inherent in the meaning of my name André 3000, there is a...

A clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty--and magic--of her culture to thwart the Big Bad Wolf. Mahogany is...

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early...

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior lives, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies"A...