History

Sister Sandra Smithson, a Black Franciscan nun from Tennessee, lived her extraordinary life on the forefront of change. A passionate educator, she was committed to working directly with disadvantaged students and strived to reform local and national...

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...

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...

An exploration of how African American innovators and artists--whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers--have fought for and often won the rights to own and benefit from their own...

The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From the two-time...

The pathbreaking autobiography of America's most influential abolitionist and former slave, now with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning Douglass biographer David W. Blight Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 on a farm on Maryland's...

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...

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,...

Exposing why the media refused to tell the whole truth about the anti-police movement. Truth is supposed to be a journalist's north star. But during the 2010s, the fourth estate lost its way, abandoning reporting for straight-up activism. In Crimes of...

'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA 'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history started with Windrush, read this book' GREG JENNER Georgian England had a...