Collection: Staff Picks

Published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the memoir of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, the iconic dancer, singer, spy, and...

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica...

  The newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins's compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the stolen...

A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is...

The exciting new contemporary romance and—her first to feature a queer romance—by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a...

Experience Africa's vibrant food culture with 120 recipes from the continent's most exciting culinary voices Meet the culinarians who are setting the new African table....

A Broadway actress has a chance at stardom when cast by a major Hollywood director, but the role of her dreams may cost her the...

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by The New York TimesTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends...

"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on...

  Roxane Gay's New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism--a modern classic from one of the most prominent voices of her...

Stronger Than Pride (1988) is Sade's third album, featuring the singles "Love Is Stronger Than Pride", "Paradise", "Nothing Can Come Between Us", "Turn My Back...

Promise (1985) is Sade's second album, featuring the singles "The Sweetest Taboo", "Is It A Crime?", and "Never As Good As The First Time." The...

Debut album from Sade, fully remastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl.  Diamond Life is an essential, soulful, jazzy, smooth R&B classic that practically defined...

Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a...

In this call to bravery from Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, Faizah learns to overcome her fears and stand in front of the crowd in this...

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot....

52 Walker presents THE WANDA COLEMAN SONGBOOK EP, produced by Cauleen Smith on the occasion of her exhibition at 52 Walker, New York, on view...

  Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon...

From Rebecca Walker, mother, and bestselling author, comes Time for Us - her debut children's book dedicated to the precious time we spend together.  To...

  "Her best work yet. . . This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin "[Okorafor’s] worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in...

Tracy Deonn's #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic...

Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists have turned to beautiful writing as the voice that allows readers to stay close to the field’s central...

  A harrowing and indispensable first-hand account of the experience of the first 85 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, from a prominent Palestinian...

A young woman discovers that dancers at a local discotheque are being driven to acts of insane violence. "The place was full of swarming, pugnacious,...