Kwame and Kwesi are brothers farming their first independent season in Tamale, northern Ghana. Kwame trusts his farming guidebooks. Kwesi trusts the soil, the indicator plants, and what the land has always said. When their seeds struggle and the rains...

In a spicy, contemporary fantasy novel, private investigator Linda Villanueva runs a detective agency for troubled souls using her mystical powers--all while wrestling with her own heart. Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants, ​calls...

The essential primer on colorism, and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias. Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another...

A deliciously twisted, fast-paced YA horror, where debutante dreams become bloody nightmares--perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Their Vicious Games. It's 1921, and Mrs. Caroline Reginald Kane, the last surviving descendant of a family of oil...

With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.

A heartwarming and unforgettable collection of love stories set at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, exploring hope, endurance, and what it means to leave a legacy, from some of today's most prominent Black writers and edited by the acclaimed...

From award-winning author Rhonda McKnight comes a new story of faith, history, and the power of legacy that merges the romance of The Bookshop Sisterhood with the rich Lowcountry setting of Mary Alice Monroe.Alexandra Chambers is a writer who has run out...

Discover the most significant museum collection chronicling African American life, history, and culture, revealing centuries of creativity, resistance, determination, and joy. At the National Museum of African American History and Culture's dedication...

From the New York Times's former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriers The night before Marian Anderson performed her historic concert at the Lincoln...

An expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributors--the Practicing Refusal Collective--are visual...

A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for.Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. It's not a story of moving to the City of Light, meeting a dashing...

"Spell Freedom draws us in with lucid prose, filling in the holes of American history with the work of Septima Clark and Bernice Robinson and their compatriots, who deftly wielded reading and writing as their weapons of choice in the 20th century fight...