Black and Blue TV explores the ways television productions have responded to the Black Lives Matter movement. Television programs' engagement with BLM was common before George Floyd's murder sparked international protests in the summer of 2020, at which...

After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return--with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes...

In Long Eye, Kwoya Fagin Maples brings us a sea-bound collection that channels the mythic, defiant voice of a Black Mermaid. Inspired by Mami Wata, a water spirit of West African folklore, Maples explores the power and divinity of being a Black woman, a...

A memoir of basketball, dedication, and longevity from Boston Celtics legend Robert Parish Growing up in the heart of Louisiana, Robert Parish and his three younger siblings played baseball, football, and tennis--but never basketball. Still, by seventh...

A young black lesbian activist reclaims land from a greedy billionaire but struggles to hold peace against a rise of fear-based security culture and a toothache that seems whisper to her. An alien intelligence marvels at the human form, then horrifies at...

A Detroit bad boy and legendary rapper sets his sights on a woman whose dark past may keep her from a chance at happily ever after in this urban romance.At one point, Marley had it all figured out. She was going to marry her childhood sweetheart and have...

A Best Book of the Year 2023: TIME NPR's Best Books New York Public Library Electric Lit The Root NBC Today Mother JonesThe New York Times bestselling poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from...

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A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic   "Jamilah Lemieux is one of the most important feminist writers...

The author of It's Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that survived the Covid pandemic and become an international sensation.Jeannine Cook always thought she'd open a bookshop in her...

In this heartwarming celebration of family and faith, join Haneen and her Momma as they celebrate Eid and the end of Ramadan with prayers made on a rainy day. Haneen's Momma says that during Ramadan raindrops bring blessings and answer prayers. As they...