A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience. Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites readers to breathe deeply and return to that "carefree" season. From riding...

A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg's collection of four thousand books, pamphlets, papers, and...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--enslaved and not-enslaved--have experienced and...

Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now brings to life the Chicory Revitalization Project, a public humanities initiative that revives Baltimore's historic Chicory magazine. From 1966 to 1983, Chicory served as a powerful voice for working-class Black...

Winner of the William C. Morris Debut YA Book Award Three starred reviews! A Black, autistic teen tries to figure out what happened the night his older brother was unjustly arrested in this "propulsive" (Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve...

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Washington Post, People, Time"A beautiful tale." --Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-four Seconds from NowThe New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby...

Evil spreads throughout the Kingdom, and the one woman who can save them may be the key to their survival... or their destruction. Anyi is the gem of the Countless Clans.Their Queens make lifeblood, a magical substance used for everythingfrom medicine to...

From settlement to sediment Unlike the freedman communities in Spiro, Ft. Coffee and Poteau, the town of Skullyville faded into a forgotten ghost town. Dr. G. E. Hartshorne's 1950 "Skullyville and Its People in 1889" chronicled the inhabitants' lifestyle...

From the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War of Independence and arrive in London to seek their...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education, a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives. The story of John B. King Jr.'s inspiring path to President Obama's Cabinet begins the day that his mother died. He insisted...

A sweet, contemporary, sapphic romance of self-exploration and self-love by The Meet-Cute Project author Rhiannon Richardson. Clarity Jones has her first kiss with Hannah Fitzpatrick while away at Christian summer camp. Though it wasn't like her to be so...

The call of summer, sisterhood, and hearts in need of healing bring two best friends and their college-age daughters to Napa Valley, California's breathtaking wine country--where a long-held secret threatens to forever alter their relationships . . ...