A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago's North and South Sides As a multiracial household in Chicago's North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and...

*Written and illustrated by HBCU alumni!Does your Black child know that in the U.S., there are over 100 schools built initially for people like them? Or that some of the world's most famous leaders, scientists, doctors, and athletes attended one of these...

Staggering... A world that is breathtaking and crushing, beautiful and vile, and whimsical and terrifying. [Clayton] poignantly uses a harrowing, fantastical tale to illuminate the very real horrors of unattainable beauty standards and the enslavement of...

A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses ... and a really marvelous pair of spectacles.After Winna's little sister breaks her glasses, her grandfather gives her an old-timey pair of spectacles that...

A virtuosic epic applauded by Stanley Crouch as "an adventurous masterwork that provides our literature with a signal moment," back in print in a definitive new edition "I have an awful memory for faces, but an excellent one for voices," muses Joubert...

The instant New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Fall 2021 YA Pick, now in paperback! Stunningly romantic, Lauren Blackwood's heartstopping Ethiopian inspired Jane Eyre retelling, Within These Wicked Walls, ushers in an exciting and...

From the author of Eliza's Freedom Road and Calico Girl comes a historical middle grade adventure about an enslaved girl's journey on the Overland Trail to California during the Gold Rush, and how she took the chance to fight for freedom. In Alexandria,...

Who We Are is a memoir--and a study--of a generation of Black youth (including the author) who were the last to be educated under the system of segregation. Specifically, it profiles the Cameron High School classes of 1957-71 in Nashville, Tennessee...

An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Unshuttered: Poems is the vessel for poetic personae and a selection of antique photographs of Black Americans, which Patricia Smith has collected over the course of...

A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Dorothy Height! Growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 1930s,...

In his debut full length collection, Junious 'Jay' Ward dives deep into the formation of self. Composition interrogates the historical perceptions of Blackness and biracial identity as documented through a Southern Lens. Utilizing a variety of poetic...