Cultural Literature

Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now brings to life the Chicory Revitalization Project, a public humanities initiative that revives Baltimore's historic Chicory magazine. From 1966 to 1983, Chicory served as a powerful voice for working-class Black...

From settlement to sediment Unlike the freedman communities in Spiro, Ft. Coffee and Poteau, the town of Skullyville faded into a forgotten ghost town. Dr. G. E. Hartshorne's 1950 "Skullyville and Its People in 1889" chronicled the inhabitants' lifestyle...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education, a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives. The story of John B. King Jr.'s inspiring path to President Obama's Cabinet begins the day that his mother died. He insisted...

High pressure. Hot kitchens. A memoir of ambition, belonging, and coming-of-age in America's premiere culinary school. "Her fast-moving coming-of-age memoir will appeal to anyone who's been curious about culinary school."--Eater "What truly makes Salt,...

Take a deep dive into legendary hip-hop group Run-DMC's groundbreaking album, Raising Hell, on its 40th anniversary with this handsome slipcased celebration. In 1985, Queens, New York-based rap group Run-DMC teamed with heavy metal producer Rick Rubin to...

Winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award - By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A glorious chronicle of a life like none other--enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering--and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood "A beautiful and brave story of strong women,...

In Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South. Recovering, reconstructing, and reimagining stories that fugitive slaves compelled enslavers to advertise in print when they fled,...

In Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey of discovery, Jones Royster weaves and reweaves data...

From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform...

A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study "In Chet'la Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, this book's quest (and question) of home is...

An unprecedented, no-holds-barred set of dialogues about race and education from two of the country's best-known educatorsIn this powerful and deeply personal volume, two luminary educators, generations apart but united by a shared commitment to...