Ridah is faced with the dire consequences of her choices, messing with the hood's finest. She is no stranger to betrayals and backstabbing, and the stakes keep rising... When Ridah discovers being pregnant, she prays that God will somehow favor her, and...

Three of Urban Book's most exciting novelists team up to tell the tales of the streets and the women who run them. Summer Fling in New York (Racquel Williams): It's something about them island boys that have the American girls going crazy!Good girl Naomi...

In the tradition of Studs Lonigan and A Stone for Danny Fisher, a transporting historical saga about three young men coming-of-age on New York City's rapidly changing, vibrant, challenging, sometimes heartless Upper West Side as they walk a fine line...

At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring 20s, an independent Black intellectual and her bi-racial foster child are immersed in the vibrant world of the Harlem Renaissance - and a shocking murder on Striver's Row - in this thrilling Jazz Age mystery...

Food, family, love, and laughter make for the perfect recipe in this sweet picture book from acclaimed author Shauntay Grant. Taking place over the course of a summer day, we follow a young girl as she and her family gather at her nana's house for a...

'[Casteel] captures everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.' - MacArthur FoundationThe first monograph on Jordan Casteel, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working todayJordan Casteel...

SPECIAL 100TH BIRTHDAY EDITION OF THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. . . . I've got to be a star1 I have to be a star like another man has to breathe." --Sammy Davis, Jr. Originally published in 1965,...

Revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on Black women in comic artThe 2018 release of Marvel's blockbuster Black Panther film catapulted African American comics and animation into the limelight, with strong Black women characters at the...

Redressing the woeful under-recognition of a pioneering Black queer architect and artistPublished with Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. This is an experimental illustrated reader exploring the work and legacy of...

The collected contributions from Simone Leigh's 2022 Venice Biennale symposium on Black women's intellectual and creative laborAs a part of the United States Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale (for which she won the Gold Lion), Simone Leigh (born...

Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: how Abraham Lincoln defeated the Confederacy to end slavery, but the truth involves a vast network of abolitionists who would keep fighting for freedom long after the end of the war. Here's the true...

2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Reviews Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his...