"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I'm so glad it's here." -- Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedSince the nation's founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience--a "second sight"--that reveals the...

A memoir of race, public schooling, and identity as an "integration guinea pig" in the 1980s Midwest. Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake's engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest. Drake, a...

A career retrospective of a singular voice in contemporary American art, featuring six decades of artwork that chronicles his vision of the Black American experience New Orleans-based artist, community organizer, and cultural provocateur Willie Birch (b...

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...

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...