Cultural Literature

The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Reflecting the author's...

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color   For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room...

Colm T?ib?n's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm T?ib?n first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university...

The life, work, and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most published African American women. This book explores the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most-published African American woman of the first half of the twentieth...

A stunning lyrical commentary on the constructions of race, gender, and class in the fraught nexus of a Black woman's personal experience and cultural history The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, and more than fifty years later, yours seems to be the...

NFL football star Vernon Davis delves into his astonishing career, from winning Super Bowl 50 in 2016 with the Denver Broncos to reinventing himself as an actor and producer, and recalls the hard-won lessons--including that infamous press...

IN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. with popularizing nonviolent protest...

Brilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist--aka the Mad Law Professor--tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa A Penguin Classic In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the...

This sumptuously illustrated celebration of Naomi Campbell's extraordinary groundbreaking place in fashion accompanies the first exhibition spotlighting her career at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. In this remarkable book, trailblazing supermodel...

In this down-to-earth memoir, longtime educator and community leader Press L. Robinson Sr. recounts his hardscrabble childhood in South Carolina, his education at Morehouse College and Howard University, his career as a professor and administrator in the...

Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering...