Non-Fiction

Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, and LA Weekly. During the 1994-1995 NBA season,...

Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineageWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationRoom Swept Home serves as a gloriously...

An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and...

In a time of rising authoritarianism and attacks on personal freedoms, the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Still Here chronicles her efforts to live as her full self in a society that wants women--and Black women in particular--to do anything...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR of CONFESSIONS OF A BAREFACED WOMAN - 2022 ILLINOIS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - Allison Joseph searches for home in her poetry collection, DWELLING Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion,...

Empowering Your Journey, One Story at A Time.Grace to Overcome invites you on a spiritual and historical journey, interweaving the rich tapestry of Black history with the profound narratives of the Bible. Crafted by Pastor Bryan C. Loritts, an...

A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today's students and scholars In a landmark 1968 conference at Yale University, students, faculty, and community activists helped establish "Afro-American Studies" as a major, and then a...

The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians--by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and...

The remarkable story of one man's struggle to overcome racism and revolutionise rugby coaching. In the 1950s and 1960s one man dominated rugby coaching like no other: Roy Francis. He led teams to championships and Wembley finals, revolutionised the art...

In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and...

Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin's second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time--ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way...