Uses an intersectional and intertextual methodology to present a rigorous yet accessible study of Black queer women artists in theater and film. In A Conditional Embrace, Kristyl D. Tift seeks to understand how Black queer women theater and film artists...

Uses an intersectional and intertextual methodology to present a rigorous yet accessible study of Black queer women artists in theater and film. In A Conditional Embrace, Kristyl D. Tift seeks to understand how Black queer women theater and film artists...

Introduce young readers to the extraordinary story of Robert S. Abbott, founder of The Chicago Defender. Born into the harsh realities of segregation, Abbott refused to accept injustice as the status quo. With little more than determination, he launched...

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, mathematical reasoning, and more than two decades of teaching and research, Dr...

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, and over two decades of teaching and research, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson introduces...

Looks closely at the mental health concerns of Black men in higher education and offers valuable resources and tools for addressing them.This volume assembles a diverse range of scholars, administrators, counselors, and other mental health professionals...

From childhood promises to grown-up battles, Concrete Hearts is a love story written in the language of survival.Kyrell Mackie grew up with loss written into his story-his mother gone too soon, his father murdered, and the streets waiting to claim him...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"There's a bridge of beautiful American prose--lyrical, powerful, fearlessly candid--running straight from James Baldwin to Thomas, who is...

From the sunlit courtyard of her family home in Mogadishu to the icy streets of Minneapolis, Salt in the Snow is a deeply personal memoir about migration, motherhood, and the enduring influence of a father's love.Raised in a close-knit, multigenerational...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Time--Atlanta Journal-Constitution--Star Tribune (Minneapolis)--Library Journal--Kirkus Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Willie Morris Awards for Southern...

From the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist, comes the untold origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival--beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one mixed-race teenager's search for belonging in the...