Cultural Literature

The familiar story of civil rights goes something like this: Once, the American legal system was dominated by racist officials who shut Black people out and refused to recognize their basic human dignity. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers...

Jody Burton and Avril Nanton identify and reveal London's most significant Black historical landmarks in Blue Crow Media's latest map. Featuring fifty locations, descriptions, original photography, and an introduction to the history and impact of Black...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance...

Cemeteries have stories to tell, voices to unearth-and lessons from the past that we can draw upon to better shape the future. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of American history that begins in a small cemetery in...

An eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America's greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists. Harry Belafonte spent...

A history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of the Gullah people, African Americans who live in the...

A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television Networks (BET) about the tricky entertainment business, navigating her own #MeToo story, and balancing motherhood as a high-powered Black woman executive. As an incredible...

IVP Readers' Choice AwardOutreach Magazine Resource of the Year The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry,...

Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn's The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist's view of the social and civil background of the American Civil War--a view that is rarely provided in...

We will rewrite the narrative of Blackness that centers and celebrates our joy.   In It's Always Been Ours eating disorder specialist and storyteller, Jessica Wilson, challenges us to rethink what having a "good" body means in contemporary society...

A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities. From the excesses of world expositions to myths of better living through...

NOTE:  Expected Ship Date is December 20, 2025 Despite the watershed election of Barack Obama--and the claims that racial history ended that day--the painful reality of racism in America has been thrust into the headlines over the past year. The...