Non-Fiction

Despite significant challenges and historical opposition, Black female teachers stood at the forefront of advocating for and providing education to Black students. Their dedication not only improved opportunities for Black communities but also influenced...

From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona 'Tank' Ball comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into a renewed sense of self. After getting "vulnerable AF" on her 2021 book tour, Tank realized she was...

How can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and other ephemera to exhume the generations of her...

The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. In her first book, Robin Coste...

Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life--an ordinary life that one could not have imagined--and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present--in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem...

An extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations What does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come to recognize that she did? Donika Kelly's poetry is...

Michaela Foster Marsh and her brother Frankie grew up as "twins" in Glasgow, Scotland in the sixties. Born only weeks apart, Michaela was white and Frankie was black, and they were an unusual sight in their dual pram. Despite the love from his adopted...

Framing Fatherhood is a stunning and moving photographic celebration of culture, fatherhood, masculinity, and blackness from some of today’s prominent Black male photographers.In Framing Fatherhood, acclaimed curator and producer Dr...

THIS COPY IS AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR From New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Elle comes a vulnerable exploration of the friendships that shape us, stretch us, and sometimes wound us The Company We Keep is a call to reflection...

The United States of America has more people behind bars than any other country in the world and every year nearly 700,000 prisoners get released back into society, the largest percentage of them being black males. "Getting Out & Staying Out" is a short,...

Go beyond the glass and discover the secrets behind your favorite styles of American whiskey in this updated, expanded, deluxe edition featuring a faux-leather cover and ribbon marker. Over the past three decades, Lew Bryson has been one of the most...

Jameela F. Dallis's Encounters for the Living and the Dead is a sensual journey that sweeps the tangible world and the poet's beloveds into its arms--fiercely, tenderly, joyfully. Invoking ancestors and constructing altars to lost loved ones, this...