Cultural Literature

A centennial celebration of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and its vital role in the development of Black Studies In 1926, the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile Arturo Schomburg's collection of four thousand books, pamphlets, papers, and...

A top Democratic Party strategist and media contributor offers a bold and urgent reminder that young Black women hold the key to saving our democracy and building a truly multi-racial future that benefits all Americans.Agitator. Troublemaker. Motivator...

Bold, unflinching, and urgent--a pioneering guide to dismantling racist stereotypes and creating real change. From Black Lives Matter to the stark inequities exposed by COVID-19, America's history of racial bias demands a new approach to understanding...

A perennial New York Times bestseller and enduring classic of modern American culture."Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." -- Maya AngelouIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States,...

In this lyrical memoir, Robin Michel Caudell meditates on memory and identity as she traces her childhood in a Black family navigating poverty and racism on the Delmarva Peninsula. Many know Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman's exodus stories out of...

"Africulture is a gift and inspiration."--Michael W. Twitty, author of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning The Cooking Gene A bold, timely history illuminating the essential contributions to U.S. agriculture arising from the expertise and...

The first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth and other Emancipation Day celebrations, told through photographs, art, and an engrossing narrative from an award-winning historian.    For more than 150 years, Black communities have gathered to...

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...

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...

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn't reconcile how Prince's funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince's...

Playwright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays--including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson--that chronicle the lives of Black Americans in each decade of the twentieth century. But...

The biography of Sylvia Moy, Motown's first certified female in-house producer and songwriter, and one of the authors behind classic hits like "My Cherie Amour," "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," and a slew of other time-honored tunes. Imagine a world...