Biography

What does it cost to build a life without losing yourself along the way? When entrepreneur and mother, Kettia Ming is pulled into a high-stakes legal battle, the fallout reaches far beyond her business. It threatens her family, her sense of safety, and...

As urgent, resonant, and essential as The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me, a poetic, raw, and inspirational love letter from the bestselling author of Buck, written to a nephew who was shot nine times and survived--a reflection on life,...

Sister Sandra Smithson, a Black Franciscan nun from Tennessee, lived her extraordinary life on the forefront of change. A passionate educator, she was committed to working directly with disadvantaged students and strived to reform local and national...

'The Gil Scott Heron of his generation' CHARLIE DARKYou've fought and you've run away.You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held.With all that you've endured, you are...

A stunning resurrection of the visionary choreographer Buddy Bradley whose contributions to rhythm tap and jazz dance in the 1920s and '30s indelibly transformed the way we move to music In Feel the Floor, Maureen Footer shows how Bradley's revolutionary...

From the streets of West Philadelphia to building a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio, Kevin "KAYR" Robinson's journey is more than a story of overcoming adversity--it's a blueprint for discipline, execution, and long-term success.In Can't Break...

Faith in Disguise follows Mart?n Tirado, a white Puerto Rican digital historian and research assistant to Fe Verdejo, an Afro-Venezuelan scholar curating an exhibition in Chicago on enslaved and freed Black women in Latin America. As Mart?n becomes...

Named a Best Memoir of 2025 (So Far) by BookPage and Real Simple * "A beautiful story about an extraordinary mother's gift of love and hope." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle * "Candid...Heartbreaking.....

The pathbreaking autobiography of America's most influential abolitionist and former slave, now with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning Douglass biographer David W. Blight Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 on a farm on Maryland's...

Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X's final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. "A classic in the making." --Spike Lee, When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, he did...

What happened to the dancers who lit up the stage on the iconic show Soul Train?Get On Board! takes you behind the scenes and beyond the spotlight, tracing the lives of the original dancers who helped define a generation of music and movement. From...

One Boy! is an emotionally charged--at times even humorous--coming-of-age narrative. In this debut work of creative non-fiction, Benjamin Maiangwa draws readers into the intimate interior of a boy navigating the delicate space between youthful innocence...