General African American Studies

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for NonfictionThe New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and...

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn't reconcile how Prince's funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince's...

In this raw and groundbreaking anti-racism declaration, Whitney Parnell weaves in narratives from her years of activism, running a Black-led organization, experiences with training in allyship, and daily encounters in the world as a Black woman...

I don't know what's going on / But I know that something's wrong. Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer Karim Brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black...

At a time when America faces escalating racial tensions, the re-emergence of white nationalist movements, and growing threats to democracy, Ralph Remington's Penetrating Whitenessis an urgently needed clarion call. This powerful and timely collection of...

An illustrated history that celebrates the legacy of Black actors, films, and filmmakers from the silent era through today and explores the deeply embedded racism of the film industry, from the award-winning author of The Black Panther Party In Black...

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author's family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and...

"A lion in literature's forest"--Maya AngelouA dazzling selection of poems from one of the most beloved American poets, whose distinctive verse resonates around the globe Few poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant...

An empowering and thought-provoking collection of meditations for Black men, helping them to experience the awareness, enlightenment, and healing they deserve from licensed therapist and popular author Jor-El Caraballo.   In Mindful Meditations...

This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black...

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy--an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century in Laurinburg, North...