Cultural Literature

'The Gil Scott Heron of his generation' CHARLIE DARKYou've fought and you've run away.You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held.With all that you've endured, you are...

Celebrating the artists at the forefront of a Black aesthetic renaissance and how they harness the arts to shape a freer future In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department and the death of Regis...

A stunning resurrection of the visionary choreographer Buddy Bradley whose contributions to rhythm tap and jazz dance in the 1920s and '30s indelibly transformed the way we move to music In Feel the Floor, Maureen Footer shows how Bradley's revolutionary...

When Rutgers professor Amber N. Wiley began teaching her African American Art class in 2018, she and her students made a shocking discovery. While the university's Zimmerli Art Museum had over seventy thousand artworks in its collection, only one of the...

An incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods--as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices. In the 1960s, conditions in impoverished Black neighborhoods...

From the streets of West Philadelphia to building a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio, Kevin "KAYR" Robinson's journey is more than a story of overcoming adversity--it's a blueprint for discipline, execution, and long-term success.In Can't Break...

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry. Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on...

Breaking from Western disciplinary status quo, this book explores the politics of disciplinary refusal and presents alternative ways of seeing the world. Drawing from the Black radical tradition, P. Khalil Saucier and the contributors challenge normative...

Faith in Disguise follows Mart?n Tirado, a white Puerto Rican digital historian and research assistant to Fe Verdejo, an Afro-Venezuelan scholar curating an exhibition in Chicago on enslaved and freed Black women in Latin America. As Mart?n becomes...

Named a Best Memoir of 2025 (So Far) by BookPage and Real Simple * "A beautiful story about an extraordinary mother's gift of love and hope." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle * "Candid...Heartbreaking.....

A queer Black feminist debunks the myth of rainbow solidarity, repositioning Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people at the forefront of queer pasts, presents, and futures Your favorite Black queer studies professor Kaila Adia Story says the rainbow ain't never...

The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions...