In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and...

An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black...

Emani Jagger is a woman in her late twenties that has seen a lifetime of pain. "Juxtaposition" begins with the day the man she loved turned their world upside down and follows her story from the beginning. This is a tale of perseverance, mental illness,...

Trayvion, son of the legendary Dayvion "Deep" Jones, has returned to claim his birthright. Raised by the enemy, he's been forged in the harshest of circumstances, and now, he's back to take what's his. But Trayvion's return isn't the only shock to the...

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: they're under a curse, and they think she can break it. In the fall of...

An Essence Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of September 2021Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis. Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village...

Emani Jagger is a woman in her late twenties that has seen a lifetime of pain. "Juxtaposition" begins with the day the man she loved turned their world upside down and follows her story from the beginning. This is a tale of perseverance, mental illness,...

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordinary things for the Black liberation struggle during...

Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin's second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time--ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way...

A playwright must grapple with her difficult year and writer's block while falling for the single dad living next door in this emotional debut novel from Ashley Jordan. Eve Ambroise may be a rising star playwright, but her personal life is falling part...