Magnificent stories about Caribbean immigrants navigating the emotional terrain of girlhood, displacement, longing, and identity across continents. Layaway Child is a luminous debut short story collection by award-winning writer Chanel Sutherland that...

Past and present collide in this posthumous, semiautobiographical masterpiece by the author of Beetlecreek. "One of the great novelists of the last 100 years." --Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo In the present day, a Black American expat to Rome named...

"Eerie, propulsive, and sumptuous, Honeysuckle and Bone is a trip to Jamaica you won't soon forget." --Ayesha Curry A Goodreads Editors' Pick - A Kirkus Best of January for Young Readers - An Indie Next Pick On the run from her own dark secrets, a teen...

Celebrating the artists at the forefront of a Black aesthetic renaissance and how they harness the arts to shape a freer future In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department and the death of Regis...

A stunning resurrection of the visionary choreographer Buddy Bradley whose contributions to rhythm tap and jazz dance in the 1920s and '30s indelibly transformed the way we move to music In Feel the Floor, Maureen Footer shows how Bradley's revolutionary...

A global soccer star's epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death. Gilbert Chevalier's life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable...

When Rutgers professor Amber N. Wiley began teaching her African American Art class in 2018, she and her students made a shocking discovery. While the university's Zimmerli Art Museum had over seventy thousand artworks in its collection, only one of the...

An incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods--as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices. In the 1960s, conditions in impoverished Black neighborhoods...

From the streets of West Philadelphia to building a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio, Kevin "KAYR" Robinson's journey is more than a story of overcoming adversity--it's a blueprint for discipline, execution, and long-term success.In Can't Break...

Yesterday Harrington has always lived under the weight of other people's expectations-her adoptive mother's rules, society's gaze, the ghosts of a past she doesn't fully know. Aubrey Baptiste knows what it means to stay when every dream tells you to go...

From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany Warren--a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen was the society event...

A fascinating and inspiring picture book biography about Vivien Thomas, a pioneer of children's heart surgery and trailblazer for Black people in STEM. Vivien Thomas always loved solving problems and figuring out how things worked. In high school,...