An impulsive, madcap, and newly concussed young woman comes of age as she navigates her Ghanaian American identity, her relationships, and the muddled landscape of history, memory, imagination, and delusion. Twenty-four-year-old Akosua is easily knocked...

Poignant and beautifully examined, poet Yazmin Monét Watkins takes readers on an introspective journey through the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, family, self-love, and all things Black Girl Magic. Years in the making, A Vessel Born to Float...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but...

For decades, Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry: from Medgar Evers in Turn Me Loose, winner of the NAACP Award; to York, the enslaved explorer who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, in...

Originally published in 1916, this innovative peanut recipe book by prominent Black scientist George Washington Carver is just as delicious today. How many ways can you possibly prepare the peanut? At least 105, according to George Washington Carver. In...

In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones,...

Doll Seed by Michele Tracy Berger is a dazzling debut collection of speculative short fiction. The stories span horror, fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism, but are always grounded in very real characters and beautifully rendered, distinctive...

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a "vibrant" (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love.Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even...

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. The author of the New York Times bestselling The Book...

A monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature -- and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes lost classics for a modern readership! Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) was not only one of the most...

Young reporter Frankie and her news crew of beloved toys learn why and how people protest as this engaging series continues. There's breaking news on TV at Frankie's house--a protest to demand justice! Frankie's mama, a journalist, gets a call to cover...

The emotional, epic story of James "Cornbread" Harris--a self-proclaimed "blessed dude" and one of Minneapolis's most influential musicians From the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of James "Cornbread" Harris Jr., the songwriter, pianist,...