Cultural Literature

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...

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...

In this inspiring memoir, a Black woman pilot leading the way for others shares her journey of fulfilling a lifelong dream to fly--and how she rediscovered her passion in the face of tragedy and adversity. Captain Nia Gilliam woke up on September 11...

Looking back on a life shaped by dysfunction, faith, and redemption, Beautiful Brokenness tells the courageous story of how trauma did not get the final word.Raised in an African American family marked by mental illness, addiction, and instability,...

First collection by a beloved thinker in Black anarchismOne of the enduring legacies of the Black Power Era is the turn by some revolutionaries toward a politics that questioned hierarchical leadership, patriarchy, and the role of the state in social...

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generationsWealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of well-being...

For Black women who've grown weary of shrinking back. The Pink Robe Chronicles began in a moment of heartbreak. In August 2016, Rev. Dr. Melva L. Sampson wrapped herself in a tattered pink robe, pressed "Go live" on Facebook, and preached from her living...

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the...

Existential Liberation Critique is an insurgent reckoning of the Black radical imagination that seizes discursive responsibility for the task of interrogating the Real and enunciating Revolt through a philosophical commitment to reconstitute the...

"Reesa Teesa's online story captivated the world, and this book will do the same."--Robin Roberts, New York Times bestselling author and co-anchor of Good Morning America The creator of the viral TikTok series "Who TF Did I Marry?" shares an even more...