Cultural Literature

" I mean to live and die by my own mind," Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die...

The first complete and balanced history of the Black Panther Party--powerful and provocativeUntil The Shadow of the Panther there have been no serious book-length attempts to examine the Panthers' history and to evaluate their significance. . . . A...

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of...

A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.

Meet Black Madonna--Mother of Abundance, Holy Insurrectionist, Our Lady of F Around and Find Out This bold reclamation of the divine feminine offers a new vision of Black Madonna as a unifying figure of refuge, resistance, and renewal. When we are...

The veteran White House correspondent follows up Black Women Will Save the World with a gripping, soul-baring, and deeply personal examination of online misogynoir--specific and relentless online bullying attacks based solely on race and gender...

Black women are facing a systemic gynecological health crisis. This book gives them the tools needed to unlearn the medical normalization of their suffering and offers a path forward to healing--by a foremost physician, surgeon, researcher, and...

For centuries, Black artists across the African diaspora have been architects of cultural innovation, resilience, and transformation. Their art, music, literature, and activism have profoundly shaped the world. But behind these celebrated figures stands...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy  1981. New York City is...

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor "As gripping as it is intellectually brilliant . . . a classic."--Cathy Park Hong "Serpell puts Morrison's genius on full display...

"Never Can Say Goodbye is deliciously woven from threads of guidance, memory, and devotion to the sacred labor of holding space at the end of life." --Alua Arthur, author of Briefly Perfectly Human Compelling narrative that highlights the importance of a...