Cultural Literature

Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X's final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. "A classic in the making." --Spike Lee, When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964, he did...

What happened to the dancers who lit up the stage on the iconic show Soul Train?Get On Board! takes you behind the scenes and beyond the spotlight, tracing the lives of the original dancers who helped define a generation of music and movement. From...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE STOWE PRIZE FOR LITERARY ACTIVISM In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers, returns with an unflinching excavation of...

"This Great Hospital Fight" - Dr. DrakeAt the height of racial and political tensions in early twentieth-century Houston, two unlikely figures became allies. Dr. William M. Drake, a pioneering surgeon and Black community leader, and Joseph Cullinan, a...

One Boy! is an emotionally charged--at times even humorous--coming-of-age narrative. In this debut work of creative non-fiction, Benjamin Maiangwa draws readers into the intimate interior of a boy navigating the delicate space between youthful innocence...

One Boy! is an emotionally charged--at times even humorous--coming-of-age narrative. In this debut work of creative non-fiction, Benjamin Maiangwa draws readers into the intimate interior of a boy navigating the delicate space between youthful innocence...

Piper examines the social construction of race and Blackness through conceptual projects questioning her own identityThis book grows out of the first European retrospective in more than 20 years dedicated to celebrated Berlin-based American conceptual...

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary McLeod Bethune died,...

Ella E. Hall, a Black cook and landlord in Ann Arbor, Michigan, collected her favorite recipes in a journal between 1920 and 1939. Published for the first time, Hall's recipe book contains not only recipes from family and friends, but also articles,...

Born deep in rural south Alabama, in one of the poorest corners of the poorest counties in the state, the grandson of people born into slavery, Arthur N. Dunning left Alabama as a young airman while the Vietnam War raged half a world away. And then, the...

In this raw and lyrical memoir as rich and insightful as How to Say Babylon and as vulnerable and provocative as Heavy, an Emmy Award-winning director chronicles his struggle to break free from--and live outside of--the prescribed paradigms of Blackness...

A New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025 Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on...