From the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist, comes the untold origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival--beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one mixed-race teenager's search for belonging in the...

Frederick Douglass was the most prominent African American of the 19th Century and Sidney Morrison has created a mesmerizing historical novel richly detailing his life and the Civil War Era Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass did what seemed...

In this inspiring memoir, a Black woman pilot leading the way for others shares her journey of fulfilling a lifelong dream to fly--and how she rediscovered her passion in the face of tragedy and adversity. Captain Nia Gilliam woke up on September 11...

Looking back on a life shaped by dysfunction, faith, and redemption, Beautiful Brokenness tells the courageous story of how trauma did not get the final word.Raised in an African American family marked by mental illness, addiction, and instability,...

First collection by a beloved thinker in Black anarchismOne of the enduring legacies of the Black Power Era is the turn by some revolutionaries toward a politics that questioned hierarchical leadership, patriarchy, and the role of the state in social...

In love, there are second chances ...Elijah wins Paulette's heart the moment he rescues her from the raging depths of the King's river. He doesn't judge her calloused palms and fingers -hardened by farm work and hand sewing or the cheap fabric sewn...

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generationsWealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being...

For Black women who've grown weary of shrinking back. The Pink Robe Chronicles began in a moment of heartbreak. In August 2016, Rev. Dr. Melva L. Sampson wrapped herself in a tattered pink robe, pressed "Go live" on Facebook, and preached from her living...

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the...

Primary--This book is intended for a wide audience, including those who have experienced growing up in disadvantaged yet culturally rooted urban communities like Freetown. It would resonate with anyone who has navigated significant cultural shifts...

Existential Liberation Critique is an insurgent reckoning of the Black radical imagination that seizes discursive responsibility for the task of interrogating the Real and enunciating Revolt through a philosophical commitment to reconstitute the...