It's party pandemonium when Venus Washington tries to plan her little brother's birthday bash in this second book in the hilarious chapter book series perfect for fans of Junie B. Jones and Dory Fantasmagory! Meet Venus Washington. Her boring baby...

The stories buried in a Kentucky slave cemetery cultivate a boy's coming of age after his parents separate in this "lovely literary debut" (Library Journal)."Bennett's first novel is beautiful and real; impossible to put down until the final page."...

In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as his son, he eventually learned to leverage his...

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for NonfictionThe New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and...

Aspiring journalist Frankie and her lively team of toys are doing a new type of story--an investigative report on the laundry's missing sock! Frankie's mama is just about the best journalist in the world, and Frankie can't wait to be a reporter like her...

Forms of Blackness examines how race can be approached as a form shaped and perceived through visual and aesthetic practices. C?cile Bishop offers a new way of thinking about the politics of visibility and presses readers to question how to interpret...

Thrilling crossover YA Horror perfect for fans of Krystal Sutherland and Tiffany Jackson, where the captain of a high school cheer team is caught in a bitter rivalry and turns to an ancient, supernatural creature for help, not knowing she's just made a...

Eighty years of lessons from the Black freedom struggle, labor movements, and internationalism.Raised among the entrails of chattel slavery in Durham, North Carolina, Walter shares political reflections and lessons from decades of movement experience...

The pioneering book that exposed the intergenerational health impacts of systemic racism is back--with 50 percent new content to meet the demands of our post-2020 reality. This updated edition delivers urgent tools for survival, including four new...

A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer "An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy,...

W.E.B. Du Bois and the interplay of data, technology, and race in the twenty-first century. Data Consciousness brings together original essays and an interview exploring W.E.B. Du Bois and his contributions to sociology, art, and aesthetics from the...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and...