History

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...

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...

'This book brings history alive' BERNADINE EVARISTO WITH A FOREWORD FROM ZADIE SMITH 'Black England is a book that will be relevant for ever' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH ----------------The idea that Britain became a mixed-race country after 1945 is a common...

A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A PurposeFULL Life is an inspirational memoir/self-help book from the Grandmother of Juneteenth that will be a testament to the transformative power of resilience, faith, and love.In 2016, then-90-year-old Opal...

Avenue Breakdown uncovers the rich yet often overlooked legacy of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana--a city better known for country tunes and the Louisiana Hayride. This compelling history shines a spotlight on the city's vibrant postwar scene, where...

Connect. Run. Build. The heart and soul behind Detroit's premier run club. We Run 313 is a run club and a revolution that reclaims space for Black runners in Detroit's outdoors with power, pride, and purpose. It is a personal mission turned movement for...