One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world's most popular form. "An insightful, revelatory, and informative read."...

Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a world where everyone has enough? What does it mean to truly nourish ourselves and our communities?In...

A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub - The WeekA Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review - Time - The Week - The Millions "A masterpiece." --Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books A mesmerizing spin through the high-rolling high times of 1970s...

An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. Includes a new foreword by bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. If it weren't...

"Nothing is hotter and more fun than Danielle Allen's writing."-- Ali Hazelwood Because life's too short, and mean girls ain't sh... Jazmyn Payne fled her hometown--and the fatphobes who made her life hell- the minute she graduated high school. Growing...

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet and scholar Kazim Ali, these poems span a prolific and...

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet and scholar Kazim Ali, these poems span a prolific and...

Black History: for painter Melvin Waring, it's an actual super power! When Melvin's wife mysteriously disappears, he must call on the most important Black figures of all time to help him in his search. When his wife vanishes, painter Melvin Waring must...

A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusaderJackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime--the man who broke baseball's color line in the twentieth century, opening the...

Bobbi Farqua is a Washington, DC, publicist who knows how to close a deal. Success in business comes easy, but her love life is a different story. Loyalty works with clients. But it never works with men. Men only want one thing. And now, so does she.When...

In this "achingly beautiful debut" (The Boston Globe), a young Black gay man, estranged from his father, must confront his painful past--and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex. "A beautiful, clear-eyed portrait of love in the face of...

When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old--reciting "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem, showed her there was a place for her in the world of...